EVOLVE SERVICES
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING
We specialize in working with all types of relationships: married, living together, dating or engaged. We also have deep experience working with people representing a wide range of ethnicities, religions, cultures, nationalities and LGBTQ individuals and couples.
EVOLVE SERVICES
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING
We specialize in working with all types of relationships: married, living together, dating or engaged. We also have deep experience working with people representing a wide range of ethnicities, religions, cultures, nationalities and LGBTQ individuals and couples.
EVOLVE SERVICES
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING
We specialize in working with all types of relationships: married, living together, dating or engaged. We also have deep experience working with people representing a wide range of ethnicities, religions, cultures, nationalities and LGBTQ individuals and couples.
Evolve Therapy is seeing patients in person and online — reach out today!
MINNESOTA
COUPLES COUNSELING
Enhance your relationship with our Minnesota couples counseling services. Our expert therapists provide personalized relationship therapy, conflict resolution, and communication improvement strategies. Whether you're facing challenges or seeking to strengthen your bond, we offer supportive sessions and workshops to help you build a healthier, happier partnership.
Why seek couples counseling?
You may be seeking couples counseling for any of the following reasons:
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Communication Issues: Difficulty expressing thoughts and feelings effectively, leading to misunderstandings and conflicts.
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Conflict Resolution: Struggles with resolving disagreements in a healthy and constructive manner.
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Trust and Infidelity: Rebuilding trust after instances of infidelity or breaches of trust.
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Intimacy Problems: Addressing a decline in emotional or physical intimacy within the relationship.
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Life Transitions: Navigating major changes such as marriage, parenthood, career shifts, or relocating.
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Financial Stress: Managing disagreements related to money, budgeting, and financial goals.
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Differing Values or Beliefs: Handling conflicts arising from incompatible values, beliefs, or cultural backgrounds.
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Blended Family Challenges: Integrating stepfamilies and addressing conflicts with in-laws or stepchildren.
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Loss of Connection: Feeling disconnected or growing apart over time and seeking to reconnect.
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Mental Health Issues: Supporting a partner dealing with mental health challenges and understanding their impact on the relationship.
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Addiction and Substance Abuse: Coping with the effects of addiction and working towards recovery together.
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Parenting Disagreements: Resolving conflicts related to parenting styles, discipline, and child-rearing decisions.
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Unmet Expectations: Addressing feelings of disappointment or unmet needs within the relationship.
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Sexual Issues: Overcoming challenges related to sexual compatibility, desire, or dysfunction.
So that you can:
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Improve how you express thoughts and listen to each other.
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Develop healthy strategies to manage and overcome disagreements.
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Restore confidence and reliability after breaches or infidelity.
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Foster deeper emotional and physical connections.
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Adapt to major changes like marriage, parenthood, or career shifts.
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Address money-related issues and create shared financial goals.
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Ensure both partners are on the same page with long-term objectives.
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Provide assistance when dealing with mental health challenges affecting the relationship.
GROW AS A COUPLE
Effective communication lies at the heart of a healthy and thriving relationship. When misunderstandings arise or emotional distances form, couples therapy offers a structured and supportive environment to address and resolve these challenges. Focusing on improving communication, couples therapy equips partners with the tools and strategies needed to reconnect, understand each other better, and foster a deeper emotional bond.
At Evolve Therapy, our couples therapy focuses on rebuilding and strengthening your relationship through expert guidance and personalized strategies. Our experienced therapists create a safe and supportive environment where both partners can openly express their feelings and concerns. Using evidence-based techniques like Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we help you improve communication, resolve conflicts, and deepen your emotional connection. Whether you’re facing challenges such as trust issues, intimacy concerns, or life transitions, our tailored approach empowers you to restore love, respect, and understanding in your partnership. Reconnect and thrive together with Evolve’s compassionate couples counseling.
Using Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Using EFT Evolve therapists help you get to the tender emotions underneath the anger or frustration of feeling ignored, unloved, or betrayed and leads to a safe expression of deeper needs and desires. You will learn how to respond to each other in a respectful and loving way when there are problems or disagreements.
EFT helps you:
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identify negative patterns in your relationship
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uncover feelings that drive negativity
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find mutual understanding of each other’s perceptions about these interactions
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and clarify the feelings underneath all the anger, avoidance, and other negative behavior
The ultimate goal is to empower each of you, inspire hope, and restore love and respect in your relationship so that you can each ask for and receive what you need to thrive.
COUNSELING FOR COUPLES
We specialize in working with all types of relationships: married, living together, dating or engaged. We also have deep experience working with people representing a wide range of ethnicities, religions, cultures, nationalities and LGBTQ individuals and couples.
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What to expect:Relationship Counseling will help you focus on what you really want in the relationship instead of getting caught in a cycle of blaming and negativity. Bad things can happen in even the strongest relationships from affairs and addictions to devastating loss (job, family member death, trust), or betrayal. Trust can be rebuilt. Your Evolve counselor will help you focus on the underlying issues, emotions, and causes, instead of getting overwhelmed by the details and trapped in a negative cycle. We all want relationships of meaning and deep connection, which is why relationships can be so intense. Relationships can cause us both the greatest joy and the greatest sorrow. We will help you express your emotions in a safe environment, so that you will feel deeply heard and restore deep connection. Often couples never learned how to communicate effectively, manage anger, resolve conflicts productively, or to listen empathically to one another. Most people don’t recognize the role they play when a relationship is facing these problems. One person is rarely the problem; it is the relationship system or the relationship dance that is the problem.
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Questions to ask yourself:If the majority of your answers are yes, you might benefit from counseling as a couple: Are you having problems communicating with each other? Are you feeling misunderstood or that you and your feelings don’t matter? Do you feel that your partner no longer really “hears” you or cares? Are you not as close as you used to be? Are you so disconnected that all you are sharing is your day and what you plan to have for dinner? Do you have the same fights over and over and feel stuck or argue endlessly? Do you feel lonely because of poor communication and lack of connection? Do you believe your emotional needs are not being met? Is your relationship lacking or void of physical or emotional intimacy? Are you or your loved one totally consumed about discussing the kids and their activities or a busy work schedule rather that one another? Do you miss having close quality conversations? Or just the opposite, is your loved one suffocating you? Do you no longer spend quality time together nor enjoy it when you do? Do you feel unfulfilled in your marriage?
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How to enhance the couples counseling process:To enhance your counseling experience it might be helpful for you to think about what you want from your relationship. You and your partner are two different people and your relationship is a third entity. What is good for one of you, may not be good for the relationship and vice versa. It is sometimes beneficial to think of this as a three legged stool. One leg represents each of you and one leg for the relationship. The stool needs all three legs to stand. As you enter counseling, think about what you can do to enhance the relationship leg.
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Does marriage counseling work?Marital therapy gives couples the opportunity to hear their loved one in a brand new way. Once a person feels less defensive because they are being heard, they can then open themselves up to identify and understand their own contributions to the problems in the marriage. They discover things about themselves, and their partner that they never knew previously. Once couples start really hearing each other in session, then they can start applying this to their everyday lives. The couple starts noticing how things feel when they open up to each other and can start to ask for love and support more directly. The result is often deep connection and romance. Each marriage and relationship is different. Their is no one right way to do things, the key is to be able to negotiate it with your partner. A marriage counselor cannot tell you what is right or wrong for you. Only you and your partner can create it in the way that makes you feel close. Life can get rocky, emotional and turbulent, research indicates that people that are married and in long term relationships are healthier both physically and emotionally. Marriage counseling is well worth the feelings of connection and romance that can come back. You might just learn something about yourself and your loved one in the process.
Counseling for couples in relationships
Couples counseling for people in relationships is based on a respectful, collaborative, optimistic, and holistic approach using EFT Therapy. Engaging in relationship counseling as an individual is a powerful step in restoring love and respect for yourself and feeling supported.
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What to expect:Relationship Counseling will help you focus on what you really want in the relationship instead of getting caught in a cycle of blaming and negativity. Bad things can happen in even the strongest relationships from affairs and addictions to devastating loss (job, family member death, trust), or betrayal. Trust can be rebuilt. Your Evolve counselor will help you focus on the underlying issues, emotions, and causes, instead of getting overwhelmed by the details and trapped in a negative cycle. We all want relationships of meaning and deep connection, which is why relationships can be so intense. Relationships can cause us both the greatest joy and the greatest sorrow. We will help you express your emotions in a safe environment, so that you will feel deeply heard and restore deep connection. Often couples never learned how to communicate effectively, manage anger, resolve conflicts productively, or to listen empathically to one another. Most people don’t recognize the role they play when a relationship is facing these problems. One person is rarely the problem; it is the relationship system or the relationship dance that is the problem.
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Questions to ask yourself:If the majority of your answers are yes, you might benefit from counseling as a couple: Are you having problems communicating with each other? Are you feeling misunderstood or that you and your feelings don’t matter? Do you feel that your partner no longer really “hears” you or cares? Are you not as close as you used to be? Are you so disconnected that all you are sharing is your day and what you plan to have for dinner? Do you have the same fights over and over and feel stuck or argue endlessly? Do you feel lonely because of poor communication and lack of connection? Do you believe your emotional needs are not being met? Is your relationship lacking or void of physical or emotional intimacy? Are you or your loved one totally consumed about discussing the kids and their activities or a busy work schedule rather that one another? Do you miss having close quality conversations? Or just the opposite, is your loved one suffocating you? Do you no longer spend quality time together nor enjoy it when you do? Do you feel unfulfilled in your marriage?
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How to enhance the couples counseling process:To enhance your counseling experience it might be helpful for you to think about what you want from your relationship. You and your partner are two different people and your relationship is a third entity. What is good for one of you, may not be good for the relationship and vice versa. It is sometimes beneficial to think of this as a three legged stool. One leg represents each of you and one leg for the relationship. The stool needs all three legs to stand. As you enter counseling, think about what you can do to enhance the relationship leg.
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Does marriage counseling work?Marital therapy gives couples the opportunity to hear their loved one in a brand new way. Once a person feels less defensive because they are being heard, they can then open themselves up to identify and understand their own contributions to the problems in the marriage. They discover things about themselves, and their partner that they never knew previously. Once couples start really hearing each other in session, then they can start applying this to their everyday lives. The couple starts noticing how things feel when they open up to each other and can start to ask for love and support more directly. The result is often deep connection and romance. Each marriage and relationship is different. Their is no one right way to do things, the key is to be able to negotiate it with your partner. A marriage counselor cannot tell you what is right or wrong for you. Only you and your partner can create it in the way that makes you feel close. Life can get rocky, emotional and turbulent, research indicates that people that are married and in long term relationships are healthier both physically and emotionally. Marriage counseling is well worth the feelings of connection and romance that can come back. You might just learn something about yourself and your loved one in the process.