Couples Communication Skills Coaching

A relationship can be a wonderful source of fun, support, love, connection, companionship, the list goes on, and it can also be the source of significant stress, conflict and unhappiness. Intimate relationships can be very complex and challenging, especially in today's fast-paced, high-demand and stressful world. Most of us do not learn effective communication and relationship skills to happily get along with a mate over the course of a lifetime. Learning a variety of skills can help you to have higher relationship satisfaction and commitment, and lower relationship conflict.

Couples Communication Coaching includes learning how to:

• Communicate effectively


• Identify areas of strength and growth


• Resolve conflicts effectively


• Deal with stress better


• Learn more about yourself and your interactions with your partner


• Develop personal, couple and family goals


• Promote honest dialogue between the two of you


• Actively listen


• Speak assertively


• Seek and grant forgiveness


• Manage your expectations in a relationship


• Understand your couple and family map and how it relates to Closeness and Flexibility in the relationship


• Discuss areas of conflict and work towards agreement in such higher conflict areas as: money, children, sex and time spent together


• Prevent relationships problems from starting or growing