Individual and Couples Therapy offered

It’s for all couples of all ages and at all stages of their relationship not just for those in crisis. 

Therapy for couples can resolve a current problem, prevent problems from worsening, or provide a “check-up” for a happy couple experiencing a period of transition or increased stress.  

Common issues addressed in couples therapy include:  

• Money 
• Parenting 
• Sex or loss of intimacy
• Infidelity/affairs 
• In-laws/friends
• Chronic health issues 
• Divorce/seperation
• Frequent conflict
• Non monogamy  

The therapist looks at identifying each of your respective personalities, needs, and what triggers you both. It involves understanding how these layers impact you as a couple. 

A therapist is always a neutral party. 

Couples therapy can be a powerful way to change the course of your relationship so both partners can be happy, fulfilled, and satisfied in the relationship. 

Improved communication skills: Learn how to communicate better 

Strengthened bond: When your bond is strong, you feel like you are part of a team and supported. 

Build (or rebuild) trust: Trust is essential to a healthy relationship. Whether it’s broken or you simply haven’t connected on the deep level you want to, Couples therapy can help you build or regain trust in each other. 

Couples often wait to try therapy until the relationship is severely damaged/or it seems too late.There are many reasons why people might put off getting therapy. For example: 

• Have misconceptions about what couples therapy is.  
• Not understand the purpose or importance of seeking help early on 
• Believe couples therapy is only beneficial for severe issues such as infidelity or addiction. 
• View it as a last-ditch effort before deciding to end the relationship. 
• Be afraid of the therapist “taking sides”. 
• Think it’s a way to force their partner to change because “they are the problem”.  

Couples bring a wide range of issues to counselling, from lack of intimacy and communication breakdown to trust, jealousy and infidelity issues. Family conflicts and difficult life transitions can cause problems within a relationship, as can work-related stress or financial problems. 

Some couples have found the intensity of the COVID-19 lockdown's has created issues. 

Working from home or having limited contact with friends and family has affected our sense of individuality which some couples have found difficult to deal with.

Below are some of the areas in which I can support and help a couple understand:

•   Communication
•   Understanding destructive patterns
•   Relationship conflicts – increase in frequent or intensity of conflicts
•   Understanding your ‘love language’ 
•   Decline in your physical intimacy 
•   Heal from previous relationship wounds 
•   Resentments with the relationship

• Counselling isn’t a magic bullet that will solve a couple’s relationship problems. 
• Sometimes, people enter counselling expecting it to fix a relationship, bring back the passion or make their partner change. 
• Counselling can help you understand yourself and others better, and offer tools and guidance, but it can’t change a person or a relationship if people aren’t ready to put in the effort and commitment. 

A therapist can guide and help you, but it’s the couple who must do the hard work. 

For some couples, the safest and healthiest option may be for them to separate. And couples counselling can be an important part of the process.

Online therapy 

Online couples therapy has several advantages when compared to traditional face-to-face therapy. The most obvious benefit is the convenience factor. Time saved by not travelling to appointments can be a huge plus. It can be ideal for couples where one or both partners frequently travel or have very different schedules. It removes the barrier of needing to coordinate a time to attend couples therapy sessions together. Couples with children who have difficulty finding childcare also benefit from this kind of therapy. 

Face to face therapy  

Face-to-face therapy or in-person therapy is when you physically come to the session for a scheduled appointment with the therapist to get support in their office or therapy room. 

My office is a place where you can just be. It’s a safe environment where you’re free to open open up and not have any distractions or technological malfunctions. It may be the only way you will both get space away from work and home life to concentrate on your relationship.