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). 

· 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. 

Individuals see River Fern Counselling to address such things as:

· 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 (romantic partners, friends, family members and co-workers).

· Negative thoughts and feelings. 

· Learn to process your emotions.

· Trauma and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).

· 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.

How long counselling takes varies widely. Some people are looking to answer deeper held questions, in which a commitment to the therapy process is recommended. 

Greater depth and understanding of yourself leads to deeper and more permanent changes within you, and a healthier connection to yourself, others and the world.