2025-04-15
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Welcome to the Couples Therapist Couch the podcast for couples therapists marriage counselors and relationship coaches to explore the practice of couples therapy and now your host Shane Burkle.
Hey everybody welcome back to the Couples Therapist Couch this is Shane Burkle and this is the podcast that's all about the practice of couples therapy.
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I get a lot of questions in the Couples Therapist inner circle about when couples therapy isn't recommended and it's important for us as couples therapists to understand
that there are times when no matter how good of a couples therapist you are when there are certain situations going on the therapy just isn't going to be helpful and part of it is about safety and part of it is about intimacy and trust and so I broken it down into three different categories.
I'm going to go through those three different categories that
if these things exist it's going to be really hard to build safety and trust in the situation.
Now there are times where it's not that clear cut where one of these or more of these things could be going on and I would be willing to work with people and help people but I'll talk about what makes
that possible and what I think makes it so that you probably shouldn't be doing couples therapy.
The first category is addiction and addiction it you know there's the obvious alcohol and drugs obviously and then there's also process addictions like gambling video games shopping and so
as I said in the beginning
like it depends what level of addiction we're talking about or you know we could talk about substance abuse versus addiction you know there are people who abuse alcohol who might not be considered addicted to alcohol but the reality is
that if there is a couple if both partners are coming home every night and you know having 10 drinks or something like
that it's just going to be very hard for them to build intimacy with each other.