The problem is not that there aren't skilled marital therapists. The problem is there are too many therapists offering marital therapy that should not. If you decide to use a therapist to help you heal your relationship, you should be careful. Don't go in unprepared. Many people spend less time choosing a therapist than choosing someone to fix their roof!

There are some questions I think you should ask of any therapist. So, here, I will focus on the questions you may want to ask:

• "Do you have specialized training in marriage counseling?" You'd be amazed on how many therapists see couples, but have never been trained to do so. The vast majority of therapists are trained in individual therapy models. Many ideas in individual therapy models are destructive in marital therapy.

• "How much of your work is with couples?" Someone who spends a great deal of time with couples is likely to be
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  The problem is not that there aren't skilled marital therapists. The problem is there are too many therapists offering marital therapy that should not. If you decide to use a therapist to help you heal your relationship, you should be careful. Don't go in unprepared. Many people spend less time choosing a therapist than choosing someone to fix their roof!

  There are some questions I think you should ask of any therapist. So, here, I will focus on the questions you may want to ask:

  • "Do you have specialized training in marriage counseling?" You'd be amazed on how many therapists see couples, but have never been trained to do so. The vast majority of therapists are trained in individual therapy models. Many ideas in individual therapy models are destructive in marital therapy.
  • "How much of your work is with couples?" Someone who spends a great deal of time with couples is likely to be
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    to help you heal your relationship, you should be careful. Don't go in unprepared. Many people spend less time choosing a therapist than choosing someone to fix their roof!

    There are some questions I think you should ask of any therapist. So, here, I will focus on the questions you may want to ask:

    • "Do you have specialized training in marriage counseling?" You'd be amazed on how many therapists see couples, but have never been trained to do so. The vast majority of therapists are trained in individual therapy models. Many ideas in individual therapy models are destructive in marital therapy.
    • "How much of your work is with couples?" Someone who spends a great deal of time with couples is likely to be
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      re, I will focus on the questions you may want to ask:
      • "Do you have specialized training in marriage counseling?" You'd be amazed on how many therapists see couples, but have never been trained to do so. The vast majority of therapists are trained in individual therapy models. Many ideas in individual therapy models are destructive in marital therapy.
      • "How much of your work is with couples?" Someone who spends a great deal of time with couples is likely to be
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        are trained in individual therapy models. Many ideas in individual therapy models are destructive in marital therapy.
      • "How much of your work is with couples?" Someone who spends a great deal of time with couples is likely to be better at it than someone who sees a few couples each week. Therapists tend to spend their time with the type of clients with whom they are comfortable and successful. However, therapists are also likely to see clients they are less comfortable with, but who help pay the bills (that's not cynicism, just reality).
      • "When working with a couple, do you see us together or separately?" I don't see this as an absolute, but I think the vast majority of sessions should be with both of the spouses together. Sometimes, it is useful to see one or the other to help get past a block. However, there are a couple of risks of spending too much time with one or the other: First, therapists are humans; like it or not, they will be swayed by the views of whomever they spend the most time. Second, one or the other may perceive a coalition, even if it is not there. And third, if a therapist hears something that one cannot say to the other, then the therapist is in a difficult position: k