{"id":8250,"date":"2019-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/techniques-to-help-distressed-couples-slow-down-and-reconnect\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:20:16","slug":"techniques-to-help-distressed-couples-slow-down-and-reconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/techniques-to-help-distressed-couples-slow-down-and-reconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"Techniques to Help Distressed Couples Slow Down and Reconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/uploads\/4\/9\/7\/0\/49708307\/connected-couples-1068x713_orig.jpg\" alt=\"Picture\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b\u200bBob crosses his arms and pushes away from his wife, who fights tears and grits her teeth.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThis is going to ruin our marriage,\u201d she declares.\u00a0By the end of session, she is curling into him, while he soothes her tears.\u00a0\u00a0There is a renewed sense of connection and safety between them.\u00a0\u00a0How does the couples therapist get such a dramatic and uplifting result in the course of just 100 minutes?<br><br>Our Department Head and PACT Ambassador, Debra Campbell, LMFT, was recently published in The PACT Institute Blog. Her article, titled \u201cTechniques to Help Distressed Couples Slow Down and Reconnect,\u201d deals with how she, and other PACT trained therapists, \u201cgranularize\u201d or slow couples down during therapy sessions, forcing them to not experience the same old hurts and argument, but a different, new one.\u00a0<br><br>The Psychobiological Approach to Couples Counseling uses physical proximity, facial expression, and body language to uncover true underlying emotions.\u00a0\u00a0Couples sit face to face, eye to eye in session and are in each other\u2019s care.\u00a0This draws the couple back from historical memories and into the present, allowing the couple to experience disagreements differently and achieve win-win solutions.\u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>These techniques create a space, or frankly no space, where the couple is \u201cforced to address the reality in front of them,\u201d not reliving an old fight, but instead tackling the one right in front of them in a unifying manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200b\u200bBob crosses his arms and pushes away from his wife, who fights tears and grits her teeth.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThis is going to ruin our marriage,\u201d she declares.\u00a0By the end of session, she is curling into him, while he soothes her tears.\u00a0\u00a0There is a renewed sense of connection and safety between them.\u00a0\u00a0How does the couples therapist get such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8251,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/8251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}