Couples Counselling and Intimate Relationship Counselling
If your intimate relationship is facing difficulty then the counselling room can be a useful space to overcome the blocks to communication you are experiencing. It is a neutral arena and as a couple you can work together with an impartial facilitator on ways forward. Invariably it will involve both parties looking at what they each bring to the relationship and to the ‘problem’. Each must be ready to make that journey and both must be ready and willing to change in some way. Both must at some level wish the relationship to continue – even though the way forward might seem impossible.
Here are some useful resources: The books will help you learn how to get better understanding in your relationship:
- Relationship Worksheet
- Three exercises to engage in to assess the value and meaning of your relationship
- Relationship Assessment Tool
- Try this questionnaire to identify the strengths and gaps in your relationship.
- Parental Conflict
- Why staying together ‘for the sake of the kids’ can do more harm than good
- Recognise domestic violence
- Children and young people must be protected from the harmful effects of marital conflict
- Get support to deal with domestic violence and abuse
- Living in fear of your partner is harmful for you and your children
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- How you argue will determine the success or failure of your relationship.
- Seven common reasons for affairs.
- Seven of the most common drivers or situations leading to infidelity.
- Understand his behaviour and motivation
- Why his possessiveness and jealousy are a big sign of trouble not love
- Spot the warning signs of trouble
- Does your partner threaten or humiliate you when they get angry.
- Falling In Love
- Whats wrong with how we fall in love?
- My Brain
- What happens to my brain when I ‘fall in love’?
- why Prince Charming won’t change
- Fairy tales and nightmares
- Midlife Reflection
- Why midlife can be a time for reflection and reappraisal of relationship needs.
- Relationship Myths
- Relationship myths – are you sure you’re having a real relationship with a real person?
- Anger
- Anger – working with anger in relationships
- Men Are from Mars, Women From Venus
Find out why you keep talking at cross purposes and getting misunderstood
- Stop Arguing, Start talking
Straight forward strategies for managing conflict better
- Being Intimate
Strategies to develop a more rewarding and realistic relationship.
- Seven Principles of successful marriage
How to make the relationship better and more rewarding