What You Should Be Doing in Your First Couples Therapy Session

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🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:27.8	Let me suggest to you folks who are going to go into couples therapy and you therapists who do
0:35.8	couples therapy to do this thing the first session.
0:42.7	The first session you have with the couple, ask each how they met, what it was like, how they saw each, how they saw each other, what they really liked about each other, what made them want to see the other person again and again, what made them excited about the other person, what were their dreams about the other person, what they say to their best friends about the other person?
1:15.2	Can you imagine going into couples therapy and having the therapist have you reminisce about
1:20.0	all that beautiful stuff?
1:24.0	Can you imagine how you're both going to feel when you go home?
1:29.1	You're probably going to hold hands and not know why.
1:35.8	So if you're a therapist, those are your marching orders.
1:39.5	Have them tap into the joy that was.
1:45.4	Of course there are things
1:46.9	that are going to need attention.
1:50.5	So what?
1:52.1	You can't make people pay attention
1:54.0	when they're not in the attentive mood.
1:58.3	After an hour
1:59.7	of a couple going over all of this joy,
2:05.6	they're going to be more interested in recreating it.
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