Couples Counselling/Couples Therapy

I'm really passionate about helping couples and I've had the privilege over 10 years of helping many couples from all walks of like, backgrounds, religions, faiths and sexuality. In more recent years, I wanted to gain more knowledge and understanding of couples dynamics because it's a specialism, and very different to individual therapy. So, in 2024 I studied Relationship Psychotherapy and achieved a Postgraduate qualification (Advanced Diploma), so I can now understand your relationship difficulties and dynamics in a more specialist capacity and on a deeper level, so we can understand root causes.

Common reasons couples seek therapy;

Communication difficulties
Dishonesty - A Betrayal (sexual or financial for example)
Distrust
You feel unheard or unseen
There's aggressive or passive behaviours affecting your relationship
Loss of sexual intimacy
The arrival of children has changed your relationship.

There may be other reasons, please reach out for an initial consultation.

How would I help you both?

I've learnt, through my experience of helping couples, that both of you need to be engaged in the work, both want to change or are at least curious, and are willing to make effort to learn and create the change. If not, couples therapy isn't for your relationship, you may want to engage in individual therapy to explore how you're affected within your relationship.

I like to work with couples, from a Cause, Affect and Change lens, creating a more thorough and long lasting change for your relationship not just promising you a quick fix, which isn't possible. I have learnt there is always a deeper root cause to what you're both experiencing, so I really like to help couples who are curious and committed to learning about themselves at a deeper level.

In your 1st appointment, I'll find out from you both what brings you to therapy, what you want to change, what your goals are and expectations of the therapy.

In appointment 2, I'll meet with you both individually in separate hour long appointments where I will find out about you as an individual, how you experience your relationship, your past relationships and childhood.

From appointment 3, I will have a good idea about what's impacted your relationship and will create a roadmap of how we get you to where you want to be. In my experience, from this appointment onwards we find out if your relationship can work. Sometimes, couples (or one partner in the couple)are trying to create a relationship that just isn't ever going to be, so at those times I will end the therapy.

Our work together requires regular committed weekly appointments to increase self-awareness and create change

Cost for each 1 hour appointment £110

A free 15 minute Zoom consultation is required for us all to meet prior to committing, reach out to book this here

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