couples therapy

noun

1. a counseling procedure that attempts to improve the adaptation and adjustment of two people who form a conjugal unit.

Example Sentences

“That’s when we went into couples therapy the next session and I was like, ‘I think we need to cut contact for a while,’ and a while was many months, but, you know, then it was messy, it’s complicated, whatever, and then, yeah.

From Los Angeles Times

Relationships fractured by politics can benefit from the same techniques used in couples therapy.

From Los Angeles Times

Titled “The Lou and Edie Story,” the Season 4 episode centers on Ed Asner’s lovable curmudgeon Lou Grant, whose wife leaves him midlife to start her own journey, a subject, he divulges in the episode, that they talked about in couples therapy.

From Los Angeles Times

In the first episode, we learn Deborah has cut off all communication, making Ava so obsessed she had to go to couples’ therapy with her girlfriend, Ruby.

From Los Angeles Times

Sue Johnson, a British-born Canadian clinical psychologist and best-selling author who developed a novel method of couples therapy based on emotional attachment, challenging what had been the dominant behavioral approach — the idea that behaviors are learned and thus can be changed — died on April 23 in Victoria, British Columbia.

From New York Times