Relationship counseling is the process of counselling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognize and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress. In the clinical practice we mainly see couples and family members, but employees, neighbours, friends and many other related parties can also encounter conflicts.

Couples therapy is a from of relationship counselling. In the psychodynamically oriented couple therapy we search for and resolve issues originating in the parties' personal history and get acted out in the couple system. In couples therapy emotions are the target and the agent of change, but we often provide techniques, behaviour strategies, and experiential exercises to facilitate change.

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