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Tips for Building & Maintaining Healthy Relationships
This blog post outlines several tangible tips to build and maintain happy and healthy longterm relationships.
7 Aspects of Healthy Open Relationships
This blog post outlines 7 important aspects of open relationships as well as provides several further resources.
A 4-Step Conflict Management Tool: Parallel Processing
This blog post outlines a 4 step exercise that supports couples in resolving most conflicts.
20 Important Relationship Green Flags
This blog post outlines 20 important elements of long-term happy and healthy relationships. We refer to these elements as green flags, which are associated with physical and mental wellbeing.
A Tool To Build Connection: Create a Vision for Your Relationship
This blog post outlines a tool to create more of the relationship you desire through focusing on love, sex & intimacy, friendship, respect, loyalty & trust, family life, lifestyle, communication, goals & legacy as well as values.
A Conflict Management Tool: Couple Time-outs
This blog post outlines a 5-step conflict management tool that helps couples reduce and resolve conflict through emotional regulation.
6 Intimacy Building Exercises
This blog post outlines 6 intimacy building exercises for couples. Intimacy in longterm relationships is a combination of physical, emotional, mental & spiritual closeness & connection that you develop with your partner(s).
A Tool to Build Connection & Communication: Weekly Check-ins
This blog post outlines a “relationship check-in” tool for couples to build more effective communication as well as deeper connection and intimacy. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to use the “check-in” tool and the 6 “relationship check-in” areas.
How is Trust Rebuilt?
This blog post outlines how to rebuild trust in a relationship. Trust is the state that occurs when you know that your partner acts and thinks to maximize your best interest. Trust is necessary for a relationship to feel safe and stable.
What Is A Consult All About?
This blog post outlines what the right fit looks like and feels like with a therapist as well as some important questions to ask in a consult. Finding the right connection (also called fit) between you and a therapist is important for getting the most value out of the counselling process.
Working Through Affair Betrayal: 3 Stages
This blog post outlines a 3-stage roadmap to help couples heal from affair betrayal. Betrayal is one of the hardest emotions to experience. It lingers, it’s heavy, it changes the way you see several aspects of life, and it’s deeply painful. At Map Psychology Solutions, our therapists have helped many couples process and heal from affair betrayal.
8 Tips to Maintain a Long-term Relationship
This blog post outlines 8 simple and effective tips that help couples stay connected over a lifetime of love.