MARITAL THERAPY

Dr. Jay Lindsay uses marital therapy if your marriage is in crisis or chronic discord.

In his marital therapy, Dr. Lindsay primarily uses Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), a powerful cutting-edge approach thought by many marriage experts to be the most effective form of relationship treatment available today.

Dr. Lindsay is the only fully trained and certified EFT marital therapist in Colorado.

Benefits of Dr. Lindsay's EFT-based Marital Therapy:

• proven by research studies to bring recovery to 70 – 73 % of distressed couples and significant improvement to 90%, with a very low relapse rate
  
  
• proven to work better than the widely-used Behavioral Couple Therapy (Communication Skills Training), which produces recovery in only 35% of distressed couples and has a high relapse rate
  
  
• a short-term, cost-effective approach that usually succeeds in just 8 to 20 sessions
  
  
• the American Psychological Association recognizes this marital therapy treatment as being empirically validated
  
  
• using an eight-step research-based approach, Dr. Lindsay's marital therapy helps spouses heal from the wounds of betrayals such as extramarital affairs

• works especially well with men who tend to withdraw and have trouble expressing emotion



• demonstrated to be effective with relationships in which one partner has depression, an anxiety disorder such as PTSD, trauma from childhood sexual abuse, low sexual desire, or a chronic medical illness



• this marital therapy is based on attachment theory, which offers the therapist a reliable map to the terrain of adult love relationships



• it fits with recent research on the nature of marital distress and satisfaction in the developing science of intimate relationships



• this form of marital therapy arose from systematic observation of couples in therapy and the process by which they succeeded in repairing their relationships



• research has identified the key change events that must occur in successful couple therapy and specific interventions for orchestrating these

Why Dr. Lindsay's Marital Therapy Work

Usually by the time a couple comes to marital therapy, their relationship has deteriorated. Dr. Lindsay's marital therapy works because it uses emotions as leverage to help couples shift out of negative interaction patterns and into positive ones. Other approaches Dr. Lindsay uses (in addition to EFT) include: scientifically-based solution-focused integrative collaborative narrative strategic structural psychodynamic couple therapy

"If your marriage is in crisis or chronic discord… call me or visit one of my two offices. For 30 years, my marital therapy has helped thousands of couples improve and even save their marriages. Chances are excellent that I can help you; but first you must call!"