Therapist Kristina Virro has given her take on why most straight men 'don't like therapy'
A relationship therapist has given her take on why men can be resistant to participating in couples therapy, and the reason they are more likely to ask for a male therapist than female. Kristina Virro, known as Therapykristina on TikTok, shared her thoughts on the social media platform.
She said: “So a super common thing I see as a couples therapist is that women in heterosexual relationships will have a hard time bringing their partner to couples therapy because he’s worried that the therapist will ‘pick on him’. Now if a man does agree to go to couples therapy, nine times out of ten he usually asks for a male therapist because there’s this assumption that the male therapist will ‘get him’ and will be less inclined to ‘pick on him’.
The expert explained that women are now looking for companionship, emotional intelligence, good intimacy and love from their partners. Kristina then referenced a UK study which showed that men develop emotional maturity at the age of 43. “So don’t see it as picked on, or whatever, see it as ‘okay, you haven’t developed certain skills that need to be developed’ and that is precisely what couples therapy is for.” Her video has been viewed over a whopping 1.5million times, racking up 273,100 likes and 3,892 comments, at the time of writing.
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