Marriage Counseling and Money: How Much Does Marriage Counseling Cost?

We are mostly aware that perfect relationships do not exist. However, if you want your relationship to last, and more importantly, to be a healthy and fulfilling one, you need to put some hard work into it.

Has the dynamics in your marriage changed in recent weeks, months, or even years?

Do you feel like you and your partner have grown apart?

Is there a lack of passion in a relationship?

Are you struggling to overcome an affair or trying to decide when to walk away after infidelity?

It can be devastating when you still love each other but don’t know how to reconnect and rekindle intimacy and trust.

Marriage Counseling Can Help Get Your Relationship Back on Track

Most of us expect our relationships to tend to our needs and last effortlessly forever. However, a relationship is a process that changes over time.so, your relationship dynamics may vary, and if you don’t address this on time, the change can cause poor communication, endless arguments, and emotional disconnection.

Sometimes, our marriage challenges go beyond our ability to handle them in a mutually satisfying way.

Marriage counseling in Raleigh can be a possible solution to your relationship issues. Couples therapy in Wake Forest can help you cope with strong emotions, learn to manage conflicts and improve communication, start reconnecting and restoring intimacy in your marriage, and more.

However, research shows that couples, on average, wait for six years before reaching for professional help.

Couples counseling may help you learn to be vulnerable with one another, to listen actively, and open up with no fear of being rejected.

It can help address your intimacy issues and find ways to recover them. Intimacy problems in relationships often stem from different sex needs and desires partners have. Marriage therapy can be a safe place to unpack this subject and understand the reasons for your sex issues in marriage.

Why Don’t Couples in Trouble Seek Marriage Counseling?

Why an average couple waits around six years before they reach out for couples counseling?

Many couples are simply not sure whether they need marriage therapy or not. They believe that they can handle their marriage issues without help. Or that the problems will somehow resolve on their own.

Some couples avoid counseling because they find it too expensive.

However, the longer you wait to seek professional help, the healing process may take longer because you will reach an impasse hardened by years or even decades of ineffective habitual patterns that you won’t be able to heal from.

How Much Does Marriage Counseling Cost?

The answer to this question depends on the therapist’s training and experience.

To become a couples therapist, a person needs to put a lot of effort, time, and money. On top of completing a Master’s degree, a therapist needs to collect thousands of clinical hours post their graduate degree, which can take years to complete. Only then do they sit for their clinical board exam.

In addition, many therapists complete additional training that can also take months and years. Then after that, ongoing training, supervision, case consultation, and a therapist’s own weekly therapy.

This is, of course, not mandatory. But I go on my own weekly sessions because I believe this experience makes me an effective couples therapist with excellent clinical outcomes. My clients get a therapist who is present, focused, and authentic because she knows the hard work of therapy.

For example, when I struggle or feel stuck with a case and need support, I reach one of my colleagues and pay for a one-hour case consultation. 

When things in our life get broken, we pay to fix them. For example, no one thinks about how much a new fridge costs. You simply give money and get a new one.

Why is it different from psychotherapy? Why do we struggle to give money when our relationship or our mental health is broken?

I believe things are different with therapy because our culture did not teach us to value ourselves and take care of our body and heart. Instead, most of us internalized false beliefs that vulnerability is a sign of weakness. Seeking help for our mental issues or relationship problems is seen as something to be ashamed of. So, many people end up bottling up their struggles and never reaching the peace and happiness they deserve.

Summary

Many couples avoid marriage therapy because they think it is too expensive for them.

Whether you have mental health concerns, you grew up in an unhealthy family, you struggle to commit to your partner, or you are stuck in a toxic relationship, keep in mind that investing in yourself will pay off double. Help is available, and you can heal. But, at the end of the day, divorce is more expensive in every possible way.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule your free 15 min phone consultation in my Wake Forest or virtual office, you can do so here by clicking here https://www.irinabaechlecounselingllc.com/book-a-consult