What to Expect From Christian Marriage Counseling vs. Normal Marriage Counseling
Marriage counseling can help to create and foster solid foundations for marriage and married life.
Being able to manage conflicts more effectively and increase communication are some of the basics that marriage counseling can help with. If you also identify with a specific religion you may also like to have that be a part of the conversation as well due to the importance that it is in your relationship. If Christianity is important to you and your marriage you might then also be interested in having a therapist that can help you and your partner grow spiritually as well and integrate the Bible into the process. This article will talk more about what it means to integrate religion into marriage counseling.
Integration of values in regular marriage counseling vs marriage counseling with Christianity integration:
Regular marriage counseling takes into account couples' relationships with themselves, relationships with others, and views on how couples see themselves collectively in marriage. In addition to that, Christian counseling integrates the relationship with God and how the couple and individuals in the couple see themselves in that relationship. Your therapist will help you to see where you and your partner fall within all of those relationships and can help you process how to strengthen your relationship in any of those areas. Full integration is a big difference between marriage counseling and marriage counseling that also takes religion into perspective.
Expect to also be challenged in how your views differ and what can help
When you are able to process with your therapist what you and your spouse's relationship is like with religion there are bound to be some things that you and your spouse will differ on. Your marriage therapist can help identify strengths and growth areas for your marriage in relationship to being Christians. Your therapist will help you both in identifying your needs in those areas to help you both grow. In that growth, your therapist can also help to connect you with more resources in the community that provide Bible study, and fellowship to be able to engage in.
Marriage Counseling can help with intimacy
Religion sometimes can create feelings of guilt or shame when it comes to intimacy. Marriage counseling can help you to process and identify where those feelings come from so that they don’t continue to get in the way of the closeness that you are searching for in the relationship. There could be a lack of communication that gets in the way of how you both communicate with each other. Whatever your concern maybe that can be brought up within therapy.
Advantages of marriage counseling with a therapist that respects your Christian perspective:
Increase in intimacy as a couple.
Understand each other's values and core beliefs surrounding marriage values.
Being able to talk about issues in a safe space and environment with a third-party view.
Learn important self-soothing techniques to help you individually and in your relationship to help when getting overwhelmed with conflicts.
Be able to process and find ways in which you can restore trust with one another where trust might have been broken from infidelity, financial problems, and more.
Help you and your couple to identify how to work with perpetual issues.
Help develop goals to get closer to your relationship with God.
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