Most couples go for marriage counseling when it’s way too late to save their marriages, and most marriage counselors are the kiss of death for marriages. By the time couples get to a counselor it’s usually to receive last rites for the marriage.
There’s a good reason When marriage counseling doesn’t work, because “couples therapy may be the hardest form of therapy and most therapists aren’t good at it,” according to an article by William Doherty in the professional journal Psychotherapy Networker. “Surveys indicate that about eighty percent of therapists in private practice do couples therapy. Where they got their training is a mystery because most therapists practicing today never took a course in couples therapy and never did their internships under supervision from someone who’d mastered the art.
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