Domestic Abuse Therapy: When Marital Therapy Helps and When It Hurts

There is a lot of confusion over whether marital/couples therapy will help couples in abusive relationships.

You may have heard that marital therapy is not the proper modality for domestic abuse. Even stronger, you may realize that marital therapy is actually contra-indicated in the treatment of intimate partner abuse.

Then, you may also realize that some couples who deal with abusive control issues in their relationship can learn to develop new skills to facilitate their use of non-violent and non-abusive behavioral responses with their intimate partner.

Read Dr. King's entire article Domestic Abuse Therapy: When Marital Therapy Helps and When It Hurts

Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D., our official Abusive Relationships Expert