Counselling for couples
All relationships face challenges. Couples counselling provides you and your partner with a safe, confidential and empathic space to facilitate both of you in exploring and progressing your relationship. My focus is on helping you recognise how challenges and conflict in your relationship can indicate the potential for personal growth.
How might couples therapy help?
There are many reasons why couples decide to come to couples counselling. Couples therapy can be useful for couples who are experiencing:
- Misunderstandings and repeating arguments
- Feelings of resentment, anger and anxiety
- Mistrust
- Tensions resulting from differences (different opinions, values, preferences, priorities and ways of being)
- Loss of connection
- Lack of intimacy
- Sexual dissatisfaction
- Infidelity
Couples therapy can help you recognise and gain greater awareness of the communication, behavioural, sexual and emotional dynamics that might exist between you and your partner.
For couples in a satisfactory relationship, couples counselling can help to keep you on track and provide you with greater understanding and fulfilment. Some couples come to therapy as they have been facing serious long-term difficulties. Couples therapy can provide support for couples who wish to separate, or help those who can’t decide which way to go to find clarity.
What to expect from couples therapy in London
Your first appointment will provide an opportunity for you and your partner to discuss any issues or challenges within your relationship, identify any goals for therapy and begin a dialogue. People often have questions about how couples counselling might help them and we will dedicate some time to address any concerns you may have about therapy at this first meeting.
Therapy is a very private and personal experience. All discussions with your therapist are handled sensitively and are always confidential.
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