Reflective Blog

As couples counselling is becoming more popular I wonder if couples know what to expect? From my experience, people come both hopeful and anxious, having watched ‘Couples Therapy ’, which is a stylised albeit excellent version, but it’s still the highlights and it’s impossible to know the longer-term trajectory of these relationships and it's not a full picture of the therapy. Couples Counselling can be great when you have lost your way and you don’t know how to talk to each

Managing conflict in intimate relationships Conflict is a prime reason bringing couples to therapy, the way that conflict is managed and contained or not within the couple relationship; conflict in our lives has a growthful and a destructive potential. When it is contained and worked through satisfactorily, it can lead to growth; when the defence and resistance pull people apart, it is destructive. In our couple relationships we bring the model of relationship that we uncons