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How couples can navigate different approaches to CBT work together

My wife and I decided to work through a CBT workbook together for our relationship anxiety, but we have completely different styles - she wants to analyze every thought pattern in detail and I just want to do the exercises and move on, and now the process itself is becoming a source of conflict.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people attempting shared therapeutic work are discovering that their different processing styles create new points of friction rather than healing.

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