In couple therapy and family therapy, you, your spouse/partner, and/or other family members will participate in sessions together. After confirming all participants are synchronized in the therapeutic goal, your therapist joins your family system and assists you to recognize and acknowledge potential unhealthy relational dynamics and interacting patterns. In next phase of the process, your therapist will attempt to facilitate changes in your relational dynamic through various therapeutic techniques. You should expect some struggle in this stage for it takes time and efforts to think and act differently. If all participants are able to trust this process with genuine intensions of pursuing a better relationship, your couple or family system will gradually shift into a new balance in which the old symptoms subside.