Combining Couple Therapy With Individual Therapy by the Same Therapist Team Using Early Memories: Exploration of a New Model

Abstract

Abstract:Very little has been written about combining individual and couple therapy in clinical practice. Even less common is the practice of combining individual and couple therapy as a cotherapy team. This article examines the therapeutic merit of combining individual and couple therapy with the same set of patients as a psychodynamically oriented cotherapy team. We have found this practice to manifest significant therapeutic gains within the individual therapy work as well as within the conjoint couple therapy. We also describe our experience with this novel way of working with patients, including some of its indications and potential contraindications, and describe those we have found to be most suitable for benefiting from our model's application.