Cultural problems in partnerships
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Resolving cultural conflicts
Partners with different cultural backgrounds often have different ideas about partnership. Imprints from past life, diferent value systems and other world views can become an intellectual and emotional challenge. It is important to understand the other person’s culture and language and to be willing to compromise.
Especially when children arrive, different views become apparent.
Good communication can build on the existing capital of intercultural richness and help reap the benefits of this relationship.
Overcome obstacles
An open attitude towards all that is foreign foreign as a result of a different language, role models, mentality helps every multicultural couple to better deal with conflicts. Interest in the history of the other one means that there is no hierarchy in the relationship, so we remain eye-to-eye with each other.
Your topics
Appreciation, understanding and acceptance of people who seek help.
Our way
During the therapy sessions, both sides are given the opportunity to present their cultural backgrounds, and especially their cultural differences. Together we look for common ground and work out tolerance for the religion and customs of the other culture. Couples do not have to agree on all views in order to live together harmoniously.
The goal is to get to know the other person’s culture better and to deal with it in a positive way. It is also important to understand that it is not easy to break longstanding habits. In our work together we will find ways to shape your relationship without the feeling of loosing out.
Contact us
Contact me now by e-mail or phone and tell me about your concerns. If I am not available, I will get back to you immediately and we can schedule an appointment for an initial consultation. As self paying clients, you can decide on the frequency and timing of the sessions.
Initial consultation
In an initial consultation, both partners have time to describe their situation. Most couples take 6-10 sessions to arrive at new agreements Initially, we may meet every 2 weeks. Then the intervals can be longer. Many couples return to me for a couple of sessions year after year.
Each session lasts 60-90 minutes, during which we take time to create a new experience.
Couples therapy
Couple therapy is based mainly on systemic humanistic and family therapy theories. I always allow my strong intuition to adapt to your individual needs.Â
An in-depth psychological approach is especially important with trauma-sensitive couples.
I will help you to overcome fears and obstacles in your life.
I am
alternative practitioner for psychotherapy
My expertise is to help you cope with personal problems, psychological load, stress and burnout.
My wish is to harmonise your feelings with your thinking and the actions you take.
My work applies a solution focused approach.
Questions about conflicts due to different cultural backgrounds
Cultural conflicts often hide seemingly different interpretations of faith or entrenched traditions. This leads to hardening of the fronts and degradation of the views of the other. Cultural conflicts can occur within a society, such as the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, or when people from different societies meet, for example through immigration from distant countries.
First, there must be a willingness on all sides to address the conflict and build relationships. The decisive factor is whether it is possible to develop the ability to work out the differences without devaluing the other. There must also be a serious effort to accept different realities.
For a long time, societies were homogeneous and most couples found each other within the same culture. Couples often married within a closed village community or among extended family members. Today, society is heterogeneous, people from different cultures and with different religious come together to form couples and start families. In many aspects, problems in multicultural relationships are the same problems experienced by our globalised society.
