Business Partner Therapy? Roommate Therapy?
More People Seeking Counseling at UB for Relationships
Outside of Marriage and Family
By Bridget Jordan, a Northwestern graduate student and UB’s Business Development Specialist
When we hear the word relationship many of us may instantly think about its romantic connotations. Perhaps this is why couples therapy is predominately sought after by couples struggling in their romantic relationship. But relationship counseling can extend to other relationships with which we are having difficulties. Relationships such business partners, colleagues, roommates, friends, and neighbors to name a few.
These relationships often have significant effects on our daily mood, self-esteem and indeed our intimate relationships.These types of relationships can be of critical importance to our emotional health, and definitely can benefit from relationship therapy. In relationship therapy, the therapist serves partly as a mediator and can guide both parties through their conflicts to an understanding and resolving the issues at hand.
Goals of relationship therapy may include:
- Improve communication skills
- Conflict resolution
- Boundary setting
- Define roles and expectations