This type of counselling is a regular meeting with a trained therapist jointly with your and your partner or partners.

The intention is to facilitate a space for you and your partner/s to have a different kind of conversation. As an intimate partner therapist my focus is on supporting you to communicate in a helpful way, to identify patterns that are unhelpful, and to guide you in practices proven to support change in relationships.

It provides you with dedicated safe space and time to examine your experiences, your relationships, and your relationship with yourself.

My role in this is to accompany and guide you in this exploration, informed by psychological theory and professional knowledge about human development and relationships, while being genuinely interested in your unique relationship and the individual experiences you both bring to it. 

Our relationships with others are often the parts of our life which bring us the most joy and the most pain. This includes relationships with intimate partners, family, friends, colleagues.

People come to intimate partner therapy for many reasons but usually there is a sense that a part of the relationship is stuck in an unhealthy or challenging place, and there is an intention to change this and work towards a healthier version of this relationship.

Having counselling for relationships can help you to;

• recognise and work on patterns  in your relationships in a collaborative way

• develop relational self awareness so that you can recognise what you contribute to the relationship dynamic and how you can change this if helpful to do so

• process experiences in past or present relationships which may be affecting your current relationship

• navigate difficult periods in relationships such as infidelity or a change in life circumstances

Our relationships are systems and eco-systems. When we introduce change in the form of how we behave in a relationship, other people change how they respond to us. In this way we can affect change in our relationships.

A curious and supportive conversation about you, your life, your needs, your ways of approaching situations and relationships.

My work as a counsellor is to facilitate your exploration - compassionately, non-judgmentally, safely, adventurously - of what you are experiencing.

The aim is that you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your responses to your experiences so that you can feel connected to what feels healthy for you and respond and make decisions from that place.

In counselling we will aim to;

• Recognise and develop understanding about your relationship patterns. We will aim to do this with compassion towards you and those in your life.

• Consider how your experience in relationships throughout your life may influence how you show up in relationships now.

• Work carefully to begin any change which you wish to make. We will do this through proven techniques and processes which you and your partner/s can use in your day to day life.

• In all of this we will aim to create space to be with and to process experiences and emotions. Change and understanding do not come about through intellectual understanding alone, so spending time to really allow you to process the impact of previous and current experiences is an important part of therapy.