Couples Counselling
· Understand yourself and your partner better.
· Learn which patterns and behaviours are destructive to your relationship.
· Practice evidence-based behaviours that are shown to improve relationship quality and marital happiness.
· Improve communication with your spouse.
· Build stronger friendship in your partnership.
· Discuss sexual intimacy as a couple.
· Process betrayals and affairs that have hurt your relationship.
· Discuss Polyamory, Ethical Non-Monogamy (also called consensual non-monogamy).
· Ease or eliminate depression.
· Reduce and manage anxiety symptoms.
· Learn to recognise stress and overwhelm and learn strategies and methods to reduce it in your daily life, become clearer and calmer as a result.
· Addiction to substances or behaviours.
· Relationship difficulties (friends, family members and co-workers).
· Negative thoughts and feelings.
· Learn to process your emotions.
· Learn about your nervous system and how this impacts you moment to moment. Learn strategies to maintain a healthy nervous system.
· Low self-worth, low self-confidence, and imposter syndrome.
· Thoughts or intensions to self-harm and suicide.
· Problematic expressions of anger or rage.
· Learn about addiction and how if affects your relationship.
· Recognise where stress and overwhelm may be impacting the relationship.
· Compassionately process trauma within the marriage or partnership.
· Learn to reach for and receive your partner emotionally, asking for, and creating safety, testing and providing trust.
· Experience increased resilience in your relationship as you face life's challenges together.
· Grow individually.
· Use new your found energy to live healthier.
· Enjoy a happier experience of life.
How long counselling takes varies widely from couple to couple. We cover a lot in couples therapy; there is often individual, personal growth that needs to happen, in addition to relational work. Be prepared that this process takes time, expect on average up to 15-20 sessions.