Couples Counselling
Healthy relationships…
Let’s not forget it’s you and me vs. the problem…
NOT you vs. me.
– Steve Maraboli –
What is couples counselling?
Being in a relationship can bring happiness, fulfilment, and safety but at times, this partnership can feel threatened by conflict and challenges that might be difficult for the partners to handle and resolve by themselves.
Couples counselling, also known as couples therapy or marriage counselling, is a type of psychotherapy designed to help partners in a romantic relationship improve their communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen their connection. This form of therapy can be beneficial for couples at any stage of their relationship, whether they are dating, engaged, married, or in a long-term partnership.
Couples counselling opens a safe, confidential, and balanced space to discuss and process these difficulties with the help of a trained therapist.
How does it work?
These regular sessions of talking therapy will allow you both to talk about what you feel the issues of your relationship are, gain a better understanding of your partner’s own perspective through improving your communication and your listening skills and learn new techniques to bring intimacy and emotional connection back into your relationship.
What is couples counselling?
Being in a relationship can bring happiness, fulfilment, and safety but at times, this partnership can feel threatened by conflict and challenges that might be difficult for the partners to handle and resolve by themselves.
Couples counselling, also known as couples therapy or marriage counselling, is a type of psychotherapy designed to help partners in a romantic relationship improve their communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen their connection. This form of therapy can be beneficial for couples at any stage of their relationship, whether they are dating, engaged, married, or in a long-term partnership.
Couples counselling opens a safe, confidential, and balanced space to discuss and process these difficulties with the help of a trained therapist.
How does it work?
These regular sessions of talking therapy will allow you both to talk about what you feel the issues of your relationship are, gain a better understanding of your partner’s own perspective through improving your communication and your listening skills and learn new techniques to bring intimacy and emotional connection back into your relationship.
Conflicts…
There is a myriad of topics that can create detachment, alienation and rupture in the relationship: communication breakdowns, persistent arguments or unresolved conflicts, feelings of distance or disconnection, major life changes or stressors, such as the birth of a child, job loss, or illness, issues with extended families, financial circumstances, work pressures, health issues, intimacy and sex, infidelity or breach of trust or considering separation or divorce to name a few.
How do I work with you?
My role is to offer you a space where you both feel comfortable and safe to bring to the sessions what your feelings, thoughts, expectations and fears are about your relationship with honesty and accountability. I will help you to moderate the sessions giving you both equal time and focus as much as possible, encourage you to talk to each other with respect and civility, foster healthy communication by using speaking-listening exercises moving away from blame, guilt, defensiveness, justification and finger pointing and, support you in understanding your future as a couple, whether it is to repair the relationship and stay together or end it and walk away in opposite directions.
The sessions…
At our first meeting, we will be able to discuss in more detail about the structure of the sessions and you will be able to ask any questions that you might have with regards to couples’ therapy and how I work.
These sessions are useful for anybody who is in a relationship, regardless of age or gender.
Distressed partners may use different words, but they are always asking the same basic questions, “Are you there for me? Do I matter to you? Will you come when I need you, when I call?”
from Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson
Distressed partners may use different words, but they are always asking the same basic questions, “Are you there for me? Do I matter to you? Will you come when I need you, when I call?”
from Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson
Distressed partners may use different words, but they are always asking the same basic questions, “Are you there for me? Do I matter to you? Will you come when I need you, when I call?”
from Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson