2025-03-04
30 分钟If we don't take very seriously what your partner needs and wants in this relationship,
they're not going to keep coming back to therapy.
This relationship will be over.
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.
Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist,
and I try to bring you all the greatest guests and topics in the world of couples therapy for you to learn how to improve your practice with couples.
And today I'm excited to bring you a topic that I think is really important.
It's something that people don't talk about a lot or don't understand.
So I wanted to go a little bit into depth with it.
We were just talking about a case in the couples therapist inner circle where this came up and it was really important and it really changed the way
that the therapist was able to work with the couple.
And the topic that I want to talk about is called leverage in couples therapy.
And when I say leverage, I think there's a lot of different ways people can think about it.
So, you know, one of the things about it is that it's creating a motivation for change, right?
Because I think about couples that I've worked with, especially when I was younger as a therapist,
and there would be times where I would feel like I was just kind of floating along.