Couples Counselling Services
Mental Health Services for Corporations, Families and Individuals.
COVID19 crisis update:
Online Services are available
Online services are available. Mental health script will be sent digitally for use in your local pharmacy.
Patients who opt for our online services require an internet connection and a mobile phone or computer with a microphone. Pricing is between 2000 - 2500 pesos per session. Spots are limited, payment upfront is required to secure a slot.
In-clinic appointments are available, please secure your in-clinic appointments with our reception first. You may reach us at +639275074120 Walk-ins are not accepted.
After booking your appointment online, our mental health team will call you within 12 hours to finalize the details of your appointment.
For any appointment-related queries, please call us at +639275074120 or email us at clinic@prescriptionpsychiatrists.com.ph.
What is Couples Counselling Services?
Treatment Goal
Usually, the first treatment goal is restoring the marriage or couple friendship in order to decrease the loneliness each of you feels in the relationship. Years of distance and isolation may make trust a challenge.
Where open hostility and anger is a major problem, learning to recognize and manage intense emotion is a priority treatment issue. You will learn how to calm yourself and your partner before your emotions hijack you and ruin any chance of a productive discussion between you and your partner.
You may be tempted to stop treatment as soon as things get a bit better. This is not wise because at this point the work of weaving a long-lasting relationship begins. As you learn to manage the overwhelming emotions that are part of recognizing your marriage is in trouble, you will begin to have success negotiating your way through situations that used to end in anger or isolation.
If a recent affair is a presenting issue, the first sessions focus almost exclusively on containing the chaos each of you feels. We help you deal with feelings of betrayal, ambivalence, curiosity and anger about the affair partner, as well as the conflicting and rapidly changing emotions you have about yourself and your partner. Sometimes the chaos after the discovery of infidelity requires scheduling more than one session a week for a time.
What are the benefits of marriage counselling
Research has demonstrated that most couples come to couples counseling seven or more years after first becoming aware of problems. By then partners desperately want a quick fix. However, couples counseling requires intense work. Improvement takes time.
- Attend regular therapy sessions
- Think of the money you spend on therapy as an investment in the future of your relationship (counseling fees are less than attorney fees!)
- Dedicate time between sessions to practice the skills you learn in therapy (regular practice may mean you’ll achieve your goals with fewer therapy sessions)
- Commit to learning new habits
- Nurture the desire for a healthy and intimate marriage
- Patience will pay off. Loneliness can be transformed into companionship. Even after betrayal, trust can be rekindled. And hostility can evolve into kindness.
As a Filipino living overseas, it can be difficult to find a Filipino-speaking Psychologist or Psychiatrist that can understand your problems. Sometimes you will want a tagalog speaking counsellor or therapist that enables you to speak like you are seeing a psychologist in the Philippines. If you are from the Philippines and are looking for a Filipino mental health provider, we can support you with:
Anxiety or Pagkabalisa
Depression
Personality Disorders
Family Counselling
Marriage/Couple Counselling
PTSD
Ano ang Serbisyo sa Pagpapayo sa Mga Mag-Asawa?
Layunin ng Pagpapagamot
Karaniwan, ang unang layunin ng pagpapagamot ay ang pagpapanumbalik ng kasal o magkaibigan na relasyon upang mabawasan ang kalungkutan na nararamdaman ng bawat isa sa inyo sa relasyon. Ang mga taon ng distansiya at pag-iisa ay maaaring magdulot ng pagsubok sa pagtitiwala.
Kung ang pagiging bukas na mapanakit at pagkagalit ay isang malaking problema, pag-aaral kung paano kilalanin at pamahalaan ang malalakas na emosyon ay isang pangunahing isyu sa pagpapagamot. Matututunan mo kung paano magpalamig sa iyong sarili at sa iyong partner bago mangyari ang pag-atake ng emosyon at masira ang anumang pagkakataon ng produktibong talakayan sa pagitan mo at ng iyong partner.
Maaaring maisipan mong itigil ang pagpapagamot kapag medyo nakakaramdam ka na ng kaunting pagbabago. Ito ay hindi matalino dahil sa puntong ito nagsisimula ang trabaho ng paghahabi ng isang pangmatagalang relasyon. Habang natututo kang pamahalaan ang mga nakakabagot na emosyon na bahagi ng pagkilala na may problema ang inyong kasal, magsisimula kang magtagumpay sa paglalakbay sa mga sitwasyon na dati’y nagtatapos sa galit o pag-iisa.
Kung kamakailang nakaraang pakikipagtalik ang isang naging isyu, ang unang mga sesyon ay nakatuon halos eksklusibo sa pagpigil ng kaguluhan na nararamdaman ng bawat isa sa inyo. Tinutulungan ka naming harapin ang mga damdamin ng pagtataksil, ambivalensiya, pagka-siyam at galit sa kasamang nangaliwa, pati na rin ang mga magkasalungat at mabilis na nagbabagong damdamin na mayroon ka tungkol sa iyong sarili at iyong kasama. Sa mga pagkakataon, kinakailangan ang higit sa isang sesyon sa isang linggo sa panahon ng kaguluhan pagkatapos malaman ang tungkol sa pagtataksil.
Ano ang mga benepisyo ng marriage counselling
Ipinalalabas ng pananaliksik na karamihan ng mga mag-asawa ay dumadating sa couples counseling pitong o higit pang taon matapos malaman ang mga problema. Sa puntong iyon, naghahangad ang mga kasosyo ng mabilis na solusyon. Gayunman, kinakailangan ng matinding trabaho sa couples counseling. Kinakailangan ng oras para sa pagpapabuti.
- Dumalo sa mga regular na sesyon ng terapiya.
- Isipin ang pera na ginagastos sa terapiya bilang isang investment sa kinabukasan ng iyong relasyon (mas mababa ang bayad sa terapiya kaysa sa bayad sa abogado!).
- Maglaan ng oras sa pagitan ng mga sesyon upang magpraktis ng mga kasanayan na natutunan sa terapiya (ang regular na pagpraktis ay maaaring magdulot ng pagsagana ng iyong mga layunin sa mas kaunting sesyon ng terapiya).
- Magkamit ng mga bagong kaugalian.
- Pagyamanin ang hangaring magkaroon ng malusog at masayang kasal.
- Ang pasensya ay magbubunga. Ang kalungkutan ay maaaring maging pakikisama. Kahit pagkatapos ng pang-aabuso, maaaring muling mabuhay ang tiwala. At ang pagkainit ng ulo ay maaaring maging kabaitan.
Interested to learn more about Couples Counselling Services?
Prescription Psychiatrists and Psychologists provide high-quality Mental Health Services. Contact our mental health specialists.
Want to learn more about our services?
Psychology
Our Psychologists implement person-centric methodologies to instil self-understanding among patients.
Psychiatry
Psychiatrists help treat mental health issues firstly by assessing mental and physical symptoms.
Corporate Support
Our EAP is designed to assist your employees and resolve mental health problems .
Do you have staff?
Ensure you are compliant with The Mental Health Law
Stigma Reduction
Prescription Psychiatrists and Psychologists recommend that the business entity provides formal education for all staff including senior management as to inform them to their legal capacity or rights regarding mental health.
Identification
Prescription Psychiatrists and Psychologists recommends that a business entity considers implementing anonymous psychometric tests which are taken by all staff prior to an employee having a '1 on 1 session'.
Ongoing Support
Prescription Psychiatrists and Psychologists recommends that the business entity provides equal access to all employees in entities that are within the Philippines, including the highest
ranking management in an entity.