Marriage Counsellors & Couples Therapists in Alexandria, Egypt

Both partners attend, and any separate contact with one of you should run under rules agreed in advance ¹. Ask what they are.

A session commonly runs about an hour, often weekly, and many approaches expect a course over months. The early sessions cover the history as well as the current difficulty.

Listings here are concentrated in Cairo and its suburbs, so availability shapes what is possible. No model beats the others for relationship distress ². Fit, language and when someone can see you decide the rest.

Law 210 of 2020 amended the 2009 mental health law. It created a psychotherapy licence for practitioners who are not psychiatrists, issued by the Ministry of Health and Population ³.

The title clinical psychologist is not itself protected ⁴. Someone may use it without holding that licence. The Egyptian Psychologists Association is a body people join, not a state register. Psychiatrists are a separate case, licensed as doctors under the medical profession law ⁵.

Ask which of these applies to your practitioner, and ask to see the document.

A session for two people is often longer than an individual one.

Ask the practitioner, not us, these questions.

• What does a session for two cost?
• How long does a session for two run?
• Is there any arrangement for people who cannot meet the usual fee?

A joint session is not always the right start.

Moderate to severe aggression between partners is one reason ¹. Active alcohol or other substance misuse is another. So are a continuing affair and psychotic symptoms.

A practitioner usually asks about these before agreeing to see a couple together. Individual or specialist help may come first.

Couples sessions require safety. Where one partner is afraid of the other, safety comes before counselling. Seeing someone on your own first is a normal beginning.

If nobody listed here can see you soon, widen the search. The country page and sessions online are the route, rather than a second town.

Many practitioners work by video and say so on their listing.

Psychotherapy delivered live by video reaches outcomes close to in-person work⁶. That evidence was not confined to couples.

Couples work by video shows few significant differences from meeting in a room, and the therapeutic alliance is comparable⁷.

Ask whether they see couples online, and whether both of you may join from different places.

One trial followed engaged and newly married couples for three years. Those given no programme separated at a higher rate than those completing any of the three offered. A single relationship awareness session did as well as the two skills courses⁸.

Reviewers are cautious about how long such effects last⁹. They also ask who these programmes reach.

Where a practitioner states a fee on their listing, that figure is their own. Ask before the first session. Ask too whether the fee runs per session or per person in the room.

Couple therapy is an effective treatment for relationship distress, and the main models reach broadly similar results².

Behavioural, cognitive-behavioural, emotionally focused and integrative behavioural couple therapy meet the criteria researchers use for a well-established treatment¹⁰.

Those findings describe groups of couples in studies. They are not a forecast about any one relationship, and nobody listed here can promise you an outcome.

What the research does not settle is which approach suits you. Ask a practitioner how they work with two people, and what they do when the two of you want different things.

The practitioner works with what happens between you, not with one person's account of it.

Practice differs on what comes first. Some approaches open with a formal assessment that combines joint and individual meetings. Others use no set assessment stage¹.

In the first meeting you usually talk about why you are coming now, how each of you sees the problem, and what each of you wants changed.

Before you start, ask the practitioner these questions.

• Does the practitioner see each partner alone?
• How will you know the work has finished?

There is no threshold you have to cross first.

Distress between partners travels. It is associated with mood, anxiety and substance-use difficulties in the partners themselves, and with difficulties for children in the household¹.

Couples come with a repeating argument, with an affair, with a decision about whether to stay together, and with none of those. You do not have to agree on the problem before you make contact.

Where there is violence, coercion or fear at home, the useful services are the ones near you. They are not the same in any two countries.

The NO MORE Global Directory lists domestic and sexual violence helplines and specialist support services country by country. The NO MORE Foundation built it with the United Nations and the World Bank ¹¹. It covers almost every country and territory the United Nations recognises.