What is the Difference Between Couples Therapy and Mediation? [Video]

What is the Difference Between Couples Therapy and Mediation? [Summary]

Are you interested in learning how couples can resolve conflicts and strengthen their relationships? Two methods were presented during this event: couples therapy and mediation. Couples therapy focuses on helping couples work through challenges with communication, better understand their dynamic and develop healthier ways to relate to each other. Mediation is a supported conversation meant to help two or more parties who are engaged in a conflict or a difference. 

This event features myTherapyNYC therapists, Kimia Moghadam and Andrew Reidenbach, as well as mediators from Haas Mediation, Andrew Haas and Hannah Diamond.

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Questions answered during the event

• What is couples therapy and what is the purpose? 

• What is mediation and what is the purpose? 

• What is transformative mediation?

• What are approaches to couples therapy?

• What does the mediation process look like from start to finish? 

• When is one service more appropriate than the other? 

• Is it appropriate for couples to be engaged in both services? 

• What are challenges or obstacles with each approach?

• What does success look like in each approach?

• What changes need to be made in a therapist’s mindset to see the couple as the client, not just two or more people in the room?

• Do mediators give legal advice in the case of divorce and co-parenting?

• Are there any reasons why a couple wouldn’t be appropriate for either service?

• Is mediation and couples therapy for couples who are together or for those who have separated or are separating?

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