Couples therapy can be roughly divided into three stages: an introductory stage, an intensive stage, and a consolidation stage. At the start of the couples therapy, you and your partner will receive a questionnaire that allows you to reflect on your partnership and relationship dynamics. This questionnaire helps me to quickly identify important factors in your relationship. During the intensive stage, it is helpful if we can meet every week – or at least every two weeks. This stage usually lasts five to ten sessions. How intensively the couples therapy is continued after this stage is varies from case to case. Sometimes couples reach their goals after just a few sessions.The success of couples therapy is heavily dependent on how motivated and willing the partners are to change their behaviors, to move past automatic patterns of behavior, and consequently to expand their personal freedom to act.