Every relationship faces challenges
Whether it’s with a partner, family member, friend, or colleague. These issues can stem from communication breakdowns, trust issues, differing values, or life stressors. Relationship problems can lead to feelings of frustration, sadness, and disconnection. Our relationship therapy aims to address these difficulties by:
Improving Communication: Helping you and your partner learn effective ways to express your thoughts and feelings.
Building Trust: Assisting you in rebuilding trust that may have been damaged by past actions.
Understanding Differences: Guiding you in navigating and respecting each other’s differences.
Conflict Resolution: Providing strategies to resolve conflicts in a healthy and productive manner.
Strengthening Bonds: Working to deepen the emotional connection between you and your partner.
Common relationship issues
Friend or foe
When we think of the word ‘relationship’ we most commonly mean with others. But in a very real sense we also have a relationship with our experiences and very importantly ourselves. How do you treat yourself? Do you offer the same compassion, goodwill and empathy that you might give to a friend?
What do you need?
It's not always clear to us what we need from our relationships. Understanding what is truly important to us and what might be missing is vital to having satisfying relationships. Sometimes the challenge is valuing ourselves enough to believe we can ask for or seek out what we need and want. This is equally true of professional and romantic relationships.
Communication and conflict
How we communicate with other people can have a huge impact on our relationships. Sometimes we don’t tell the other person how we feel or what we need. Over time this silence can lead to resentment or worse contempt. Not expressing ourselves or feeling unheard can mean that rather than communicating effectively, things can come out in anger. Arguments rarely deliver the message in the way we want or enable the other person to really hear what we are saying.
Worldview
Our values, beliefs and attitudes make up how we see the world and is called our worldview. When our view of the world leaves us stuck or struggling to understand how to cope, we struggle to relate to the world, the people in it and our relationship with ourselves suffers.
How Wellbeing Counselling Works
In relationship therapy, you and your therapist will work together to address the issues affecting your relationship. The process typically involves:
Assessment: Understanding the dynamics of your relationship, including strengths and areas of concern.
Goal Setting: Collaboratively setting realistic and achievable goals for your relationship.
Therapeutic Techniques: Utilizing various therapeutic techniques tailored to your specific needs, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, emotion-focused therapy, or systemic therapy.
Practice: Practicing new skills and strategies within and outside of therapy sessions to improve your relationship.
Feedback and Adjustment: Continuously assessing progress and making necessary adjustments to the therapy plan.
The road to Repaired Relationships
Self-Scoring Test
Clients are asked to regularly self score their symptoms on a mental wellbeing test.
Addressing Wellbeing Goals
During your sessions with a therapist you will discuss your wellbeing concerns, and work through issues to address them and achieve goals you set out for yourself.
Seeing the results
Over 90% of clients notice a significant change in their test results within just 6 weeks of engaging with our Wellbeing Counselling programme.
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BOOK TALKING THERAPY
No Waiting List.
Starts with an easy going assessment session with one of our therapists. This is your chance to be heard, and for us to find out how we can help you.
Sessions cost £65. You will be sent a payment link to pay before the session starts and then provided with a video meeting link.
If you have pre-booking questions, please use the enquiry form on our contact page.