Couples Counseling
Every relationship faces moments when communication falters, trust feels uncertain, or connection fades. At Thrive Mental Health in Swansea, IL, Dr. Jamie Benson helps couples navigate these challenges with compassion and clarity—guiding partners to rebuild trust, improve communication, and rekindle emotional closeness. Whether you’re dating, engaged, married, or working to reconnect after a difficult season, couples counseling can help you strengthen your bond and rediscover what brought you together.
Dr. Benson draws on evidence-based approaches that focus on the patterns and emotions shaping how partners relate to one another. Together, you’ll explore the underlying needs and fears that drive conflict, learn how to express your emotions more clearly, and develop tools to listen and respond with empathy instead of defensiveness.
This process often brings renewed understanding, deeper trust, and a more resilient connection. Couples who enter therapy with openness and curiosity frequently discover not just healing, but new ways to grow together with intention and love.
If you’re ready to rediscover connection and strengthen your relationship, Dr. Benson is here to help you take that first step—one conversation at a time.
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Learn About Our Modalities
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR Therapy is a trauma-focused approach that helps the brain process and heal from distressing memories. Using guided eye movements or bilateral stimulation, EMDR allows painful experiences to be safely reprocessed so they no longer feel as overwhelming or intrusive. This evidence-based therapy helps reduce symptoms of trauma, anxiety, and emotional distress—empowering clients to feel calmer, more grounded, and in control of their lives.
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy helps partners understand the emotional patterns that create distance and conflict. By identifying underlying needs for connection and security, couples learn to communicate more openly and respond to one another with empathy rather than defensiveness. EFCT strengthens trust and emotional intimacy, helping partners build a secure, lasting bond.
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Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is designed to help children, teens, and families process and heal from traumatic experiences. Through a supportive, structured approach, TF-CBT combines coping skills, gradual exposure, and family involvement to reduce trauma-related stress and restore a sense of safety and confidence.
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Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
Cognitive Processing Therapy focuses on how trauma can affect the way we see ourselves, others, and the world. By identifying and challenging unhelpful thoughts that keep people feeling stuck, CPT helps clients reframe painful experiences, reduce symptoms of PTSD, and regain a sense of control and self-compassion.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps individuals understand how their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are connected. By identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and learning practical coping strategies, CBT empowers clients to manage anxiety, depression, and stress more effectively while building healthier habits and perspectives.
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Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT)
Pain Reprocessing Therapy is a powerful, science-backed approach that helps you change the way your brain interprets chronic pain. Instead of treating pain as a threat, PRT teaches your brain to recognize safety—allowing the pain signals to calm down and lose intensity over time.