“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” (Mother Teresa)
You will working with an experienced counsellor who has a wealth of experience working with clients who present with a range of relationships, couples and marriage issues. Developing healthy relationships will support us in building our self-esteem, self-confidence and help us to live both a fulfilling and healthy life. It will support us to improve our emotional health and well-being both on a short and longer term basis.
Relationship Counselling
During our daily interactions we develop relationships around us; parents, siblings, relatives, friends and workmates. Relationship counselling is also for individuals who are experiencing issues within these relationships. You may choose to come individually or together to counselling.
Couples & Marriage Counselling
You may wish to work on your relationship as a couple or on an individual basis. You may be in a situation where your partner is not in a place where they share your view that the relationship can be improved or that counselling could support you both to address the issues within the relationship.
If you find yourself in this situation then Counselling on an individual basis may be the first step for you. You will have the opportunity to think about if you wish to stay in the relationship and what the options are for you and for your relationship.
I will work with the couple within the counselling setting to gain a clearer understanding and perspective of the issues in the relationship where they both agree to attend counselling sessions together.
The couple may be experiencing;
- A transition e.g. a new born, children leaving home, mid-life crisis, the menopause or significant illnesses
- Communication and time issues
- Work life balance issues
- Losses, such as bereavement, separation, redundancy or retirement
- Ending a relationship
- Preparing for a longer term relationship including civil partnership or marriage
- Addiction issues.
In a safe and confidential space the couple will be listened to whilst they explore the difficult feelings and emotions that they are experiencing within the relationship.
Some of the feelings and emotions being experienced can be;
- Depression
- Anger
- Not being heard, being ignored or isolated
- Lack of satisfaction in the Relationship
- Loss of self-confidence or self-esteem
- A lack of intimacy and sexual issues
At times issues from our past can impact on the present and in the counselling session I will support the couple to think, and reflect, on how these events and experiences may have impacted on their relationship.
You will also have some time to think about how you may like the relationship to develop and what shape you may like it to have. You will have the opportunity to consider possible choices and mutually beneficial solutions. I aim to work with the couple within the counselling session to support them to meet their individually stated needs with one another. They will have space to give some thought as to how their stated needs can be achieved.
Where it arises in the couples sessions that individual counselling is appropriate, then this can be facilitated, and the work is then integrated within the couple work.
Everything shared during a session is confidential.
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage” (Lao Tzu)