If you are having difficulty communicating in your marriage, visiting a marriage therapist is something you may consider. Here are five ways a marriage therapist can help:

1. Identify Patterns: A marriage therapist is first going to help you figure out what your relationship patterns are like. This way, a positive change can be made to help stop these patterns of poor communication in your marriage. 
2. Learn to Resolve Problems: Once patterns are determined, your marriage therapist will develop tools that can help you learn how to resolve your problems once these patterns begin to come up in your day-to-day life. These tools are designed to help you recognize when the problems are coming up to help you then determine how to best resolve it. Your marriage therapist will help you practice with these communication tools in their office so that they can be used properly once you need to refer to them later. 
3. Build New Trust: When you and your partner are visiting a marriage therapist together, the therapist will help you to develop a trust between each other. When you begin using the tools that you use in therapy in your day-to-day life, you can begin to trust each other and understand that you both want to repair the marriage. Your therapist will help you see this in each other during your sessions. 
4. Neutral Support: If there are times when you and your partner cannot agree, then you will have the neutral support of your therapist to help you work through problems. This is much better than trying to work out a problem that is not easily being resolved at home. With the neutral support, you have a different perspective on your problems that can help you better understand how to reason with your partner. 
5. Clarify Needs: In the end if your needs in your marriage are not being met, you can discuss it with your partner and marriage therapist. This can help lead to a healthy way to end the marriage if this is what ultimately needs to happen. Or your needs can be clarified in a way to help determine what needs to be changed in order for you both to continue to be in the marriage. 

When you know these five ways a marriage therapist can help, you can see why it's something worth pursuing if you and your partner are having trouble in your marriage.