Couples Counselling

It is not uncommon for there to be problems in a relationship which are difficult to solve or navigate. In fact, it is very normal for things to happen which can cause tension, or a shift in your relationship. Couples counselling helps a couple healthily navigate and address problems or situations, providing them with tools to help improve communication, identify and resolve issues in a safe environment, hear and understand your partner’s needs without resentment or anger, feel more valued and gain a deeper connection, renew both physical and emotional intimacy, move away from the past towards a brighter future, better understand your partners, and your own needs and establish whether you can continue within your relationship or marriage.

Couples counselling is a form of talking therapy which allows you to identify negative behaviours which can be changed in order to improve your relationship. The aim of this type of therapy is to help you and your partner gain a better understanding of negative patterns within the relationship. Couples counselling can provide you with new tools, ideas and perspectives to help you to get your relationship back on track. It can also help people work through a break up or divorce, allowing people to separate in a safe and healthy way.

Our Practitioners:

“Being together in a couple relationship can be challenging. There are both internal and external factors that can affect how a relationship feels. All relationships are tested and each phase of a couple relationship may present challenges that can feel difficult to overcome.
Newer relationships can pose challenges of integration, adaptation, getting to know and understand each other and negotiating new ways of being. Child related issues, sexual issues, boredom, age and time-of-life related challenges and maintaining a shared vision of your life together may interfere with the happiness and contentment possible in established relationships. The challenges of illness, facing mortality and fear of loss will threaten the feelings of security and safety an older age or very long term relationship can provide. In addition, there are many challenges and crossroads that can emerge along the way that you couldn’t anticipate at the start of your journey together. Meeting with a couples therapist offers the opportunity of a safe and supportive space where you can explore the experience of your relationship together, and where you can work through the challenges you are facing with an empathic, objective, non-judgemental facilitator.” Ann-Louise McCarthy, Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist >