6 celebrity couples who have gone to relationship therapy — and what they learned

Relationships are hard. Despite what you see in movies and TV, they’re not all romantic gestures and total agreement. Even those couples who seem "meant to be," sometimes need a little bit of help to make it through the rockier parts of their relationship. That help can — and often does — take the form of couples counseling.

There’s no shame in working through your problems with the help of a qualified professional, and for these celebrity couples, it made all the difference. We rounded up some of our favorite celebrity couples who got real about the work they've put in to make their marriages last.

Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell

Fans may envy and romanticize the four-year marriage between Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell, but the two have opened up in the past about going to couples therapy to improve their relationship.

Bell told People magazine that couples counseling is what’s allowed their relationship to get to the very healthy place it’s in.

"We both take responsibility when we are wrong, and I think it is easy to work with him because I married him, because I enjoy spending time with him and I trust him,"Bell told the magazine. "That is exactly what I want in someone that I work with."

Bryan Cranston and Robin Dearden

Bryan Cranston and his wife Robin Dearden have been married for nearly 29 years. The former "Breaking Bad" actor told Rolling Stone that they see a couples therapist from time to time, whenever one or the other of them sees fit for them to go.

"Our agreement is, if either of us feels like we want to go, the other can't object," he told the magazine.

That way, if one or the other of them thinks that there’s something in their relationship that needs fixing, it’s sure to be addressed.

Pink and Carey Hart

Pink and husband Carey Hart separated for nearly a year before deciding that they weren’t going to get divorced after all. The superstar told Redbook that she and Hart go to couples therapy for "maintenance" and not just when there are obvious issues that they need to address.

She also said they fight more fairly and nicely than they used to and that they never fight in front of their young daughter, Willow (6). The couple now has another child, a son, Jameson, who will turn one later this month. They were married in 2006.