Couples or individual therapy forces the parties to face the real issues that are causing decline or unhappiness in the relationship. Some of the problems that arise during therapy that can contribute to its failure are one partner feeling that they do not need it and therefore will not participate, refusal to be honest with the therapist, fear of hurting the other partner and a surprising problem. the reason is not the couple at all, it could be the therapist. According to the Huffington Post, its report on "Why Marriage Counseling Doesn't Work" reports that: "There's a good reason why most marriage counseling doesn't work, because 'couples therapy may be the "The most difficult therapy and most therapists are not." “I’m not good at it,” according to an article by William Doherty in the professional journal Psychotherapy Networker. “Surveys indicate that approximately eighty percent of therapists in private practice practice couples therapy.” "Where they received their training remains a mystery, as most therapists practicing today have never taken a couples therapy course and never completed their internships under the supervision of a mastering this art." “From a consumer's perspective, going to couples therapy is like getting your broken leg fixed by a doctor who didn't study orthopedics in medical school,” Doherty said. According to the New York Times, two years after ending marriage counseling, twenty-five percent of couples are