Relationship Counselling

Relationship counselling helps you understand/improve/heal your relationships with yourself and or others. Whether it is your relationship with your partner, your child, friends or work, counselling offers the opportunity to learn how to be happy, confident and self-assured in your relationships.

Types of relationship issues

Communication is the most common presenting problem in relationship counselling.

Trust is another common issue, once trust is broken it can be very difficult to rebuild, but counselling can help enormously. Trust is often linked with infidelity or a partner indulging in unsafe behaviour such as affairs/gambling/alcohol/drug use.

Trust issues arising from childhood, parents splitting, unreliable & unpredictable parenting, negatively affect our relationship expectations.

Couples therapy vs individual therapy

When working with couples I often suggest one or two individual (one to one) sessions, particularly when there are important issues from the past which are not of this relationship, but affect it. Individual therapy concentrates on you as an individual, your self-perception, desires and goals in life.