Couple Therapy
Therapy in Danish or English - online or in Gentofte
Learn how to navigate conflicts more constructively, get tools to reconnect faster and increase intimacy
Most of us experience getting stuck in conflict patterns with our partners at times.
In couples therapy you will learn how to deal with and grow from:
Stuck conflict patterns
Trust issues
Doubt
High conflict levels
Loss of intimacy
Improve communication
Most couples refer to their problems as miscommunication and want tools to communicate better. In couples therapy you will get a better understanding of what leads to miscommunication and how to tackle conflicts, disagreements in parenting, loss of intimacy enabling you to regain closeness and communication that equip you to navigate your relationship satisfactorily.
Navigate through changes
Significant life changes such as loss, illness, stress, or international relocations can strain relationships. Doubt, withdrawal, criticism, or feelings of loneliness may arise.
Understand Your Dynamics
A couples therapy process helps you discover and dissolve negative dynamics, enhance mutual understanding, and breathe new life into what you excel at together.
Rediscover Security and Intimacy
The goal of couples therapy is to guide you back to a secure connection where you can master challenging conversations, resolve difficult dilemmas, and rediscover and develop intimacy—emotionally and sexually.
Development - Together
There is no safer place to grow than with someone you love. But it can be hard to feel safe enough to share your vulnerabilities - even with your partner.
That’s why it’s helpful to have a trained couple therapist support you as you open up for new and more vulnerable conversations.
“Going to couples therapy is like having a tour guide help us navigate our emotional landscapes.”
The benefits of couples therapy include:
Greater self-awareness
Understanding the dynamics that may come between you
Clarification and handling of doubts
Improved communication and conflict resolution
The ability to repair and reconnect after conflicts
Tools to grow and heal past unresolved moments breach of trust
Seeking support to look at your relationship from an external perspective and assistance in identifying and changing unhealthy patterns is NOT a sign of weakness but rather a sign of COURAGE to take responsibility for the love and the family's most crucial foundation: the relationship.
Expat Couple Therapy in English
Common for many expat couples is a sense of overwhelm and a risk of drifting apart or getting stuck in unresolved conflicts.
Expat couples are faced with contextual complexity such as recurring international transitions, clashing cultural values in up-bringing, changed couple dynamics, shift in co-dependency, career opportunities, homesickness, rootlessness, loneliness and much more.
Research indicates that divorce rates are higher among expatriate couples (McNulty, 2014). It’s understandable that the sacrifices of international transitions can lead to miscommunication, resentment and struggles to connect.
It does not have to happen to you. It can be your opportunity to grow stronger as a couple and family.
A therapy and counseling process can help you grow wise, stronger and closer.
Book your first session here:
Intercultural Couple Therapy online or in Gentofte
Maybe you moved to another country for love or you decided to move your family to one of your home countries after having established your relationship and family life abroad?
Finding yourself in on your partner's "home-turf" can be overwhelming and create new types of conflicts in the relationship.
Or maybe you are one of many intercultural couples living in a “neutral” third country both facing the benefits and challenges of being away from home.
Conflicting values and third culture parenting values can clash leaving parents feeling overwhelmed struggling to navigate how to adopt raising children in a third culture that is not their own.
At Expat Hero we are specialized in the dynamics of intercultural relationships.
You will get a better understanding of:
What is causing misunderstandings and how to communicate to find common ground
How to tolerate and bridge cultural differences
Respect difference in parenting values
Understand and balance emotions related to the sacrifice of leaving home for love
You will get tools to:
Resolve and repair from conflicts
Tools to increase connection, felt sense of belonging, intimacy and joy of your differences
Repatriating couple therapy
Returning home after spending years abroad is for most couples and families a journey of mixed emotions.
At Expat Hero we are specialized in the often unexpected reverse culture shock, shaken identities and grief many repatriating expats experience.
We assist you in preparing for repatriation through targeted counseling sessions for you as a couple or the whole family.
Based on 10 years of experience supporting and advising repatriated families, we have built significant expertise that benefits you so you don't have to struggle upon your return.
Before you move back home, you will gain knowledge about:
Reverse culture shock
How you can prepare your children for the upheavals
Tips and concrete tricks to make settling into your home country easier
Tools to communicate and maintain good contact under pressure.
“We should have treated coming home as another international transition. We didn’t prepare for such a rough landing”
Have you returned home and feel that your relationship is under pressure?
In sessions with Expat Hero, you will experience understanding of how all-consuming repatriation can be. We have experienced firsthand the turbulence that repatriation can bring.
You will receive support and tools to understand the emotional impact of repatriation so that you can better meet each other with care and understanding.
You will receive concrete tools to stand stronger together, regain strength, love, and unity, which you may have worn down a little extra during the years abroad.
We are all in the same boat
At one time or another, we all experience challenges, losses, grief or emotions that can overwhelm us and feel all consuming. We also all struggle in our relationships from time to time feeling inadequate, over-responsible or alone.
My background for becoming a couple and family therapist is fueled by my own story. I’ve been a wife, accompanying partner and a dual career expat and a repat lost in reverse culture shock and fragmented identity.
I’ve been struggling to get my marriage out of the destructive loop, lost and divorced. A raw experience fueling a decade of studies and research into couples work. I am the mother of 3 Third Culture Kids - one diagnosed with autism. I’m also a daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece and sister in law with all the entanglement that exists in all families.
I have been lost and found my way back. I know from personal experience the power of getting support and companionship to develop and grow. That is why I became a couple therapist. So you can benefit and take the shortcut to a stronger, more loving and connected relationship.
You can read more about my professional and academic background here
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