The essential goal of couple therapy is to enable the partners to work through their current conflicts and to develop a greater capacity for relationship.

In couple therapy, a framework is created in which the partners can express and clarify their different needs, fears and anxieties. This is the starting point for a process of understanding, in which a deeper grasp of the conflict dynamics, of their own part in them and of the other's personality can develop. In this way a deeper emotional relationship can grow — with more flexibility, tolerance, openness and closeness. This process opens up a new basis for living together or side by side.