Couple & Relationship Counselling
How counselling can help
Counselling provides time away from home and work to explore difficulties in a safe and friendly environment in which to clarify how you think, feel and react Counselling helps to:
Couples learn how to:
Relationship counselling is open to all. It doesn't matter what stage your relationship is at, our confidential service can help you deal with your relationship difficulties whether you are married, living together, in a same-sex relationship, separated or divorced.
Sometimes people find that their partner will not attend couple counselling and in such cases you may come on your own for individual counselling. Many people do attend alone and still see positive benefits in their relationship.
If two people decide to separate or divorce, then emotional support can be given through what is inevitably a painful process.
Counselling provides time away from home and work to explore difficulties in a safe and friendly environment in which to clarify how you think, feel and react Counselling helps to:
- Understand how family values, religion, country of origin and philosophy of life affect the relationship.
- Reflect on how the past operates in the present.
- Explore how arguments and rows seem to escalate in the same way each time.
Couples learn how to:
- Listen to and understand more about each other.
- Communicate in an easier and more constructive way.
- Resolve conflicts without hurting each other.
- Negotiate difficult decisions.
- Recover the love, respect and fun that has previously been enjoyed.
- Manage and accept differences of opinion
- Explore whether there is still hope or whether to end the relationship
- Learn problem solving techniques
- Identify your wants and needs and desires
- Identify and ackowledge what is working well in your relationship/marriage there are always things that you are doing really well!
- Move on from and accept the disappointments, hurts and anger
- Move on if it is your decision to end the relationship/marriage
- Identify your resources as a couple
- Explore the impact of ending your relationship - positive and negative
- Heal and move on when you are getting over an affair, affairs mean something is wrong with the relationship not that it needs to end.
- Learn and understand the differences in male and female brains!!
- Get to know yourself better and come to like yourself and your partner for who you are.
Relationship counselling is open to all. It doesn't matter what stage your relationship is at, our confidential service can help you deal with your relationship difficulties whether you are married, living together, in a same-sex relationship, separated or divorced.
Sometimes people find that their partner will not attend couple counselling and in such cases you may come on your own for individual counselling. Many people do attend alone and still see positive benefits in their relationship.
If two people decide to separate or divorce, then emotional support can be given through what is inevitably a painful process.
