Couple Therapy

Coming to therapy as a couple will give you the opportunity to explore difficult dynamics in a safe and confidential setting. There may be many difficult emotions between you, such as hurt or anger, and we will explore this together in a thoughtful way.    

 

Couple therapy may help you both to identify repeating patterns that feel hurtful or even destructive; and it may help you to establish new ways of relating that feel more fulfilling and productive. Insights gained from the therapy might lead to a new sense of emotional intimacy where difficulties can then be made sense of and worked through together, rather than separately.    

 

During our sessions, we will think about your difficulties as well as the underlying reasons behind them. You may gain insight into each other’s experiences, feelings and behaviours, and begin to see each other as well as your relationship with a new sense of empathy and curiosity.    

 

Couples who contact me for therapy have sometimes been experiencing some of the following:  

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• Repetitive and destructive relationship patterns

• Arguments that feel circular and distressing

• Breakdown of relationships and thoughts of separation or divorce

• Communication difficulties

• Anxieties around deeper commitment

• Sexual difficulties

• Loss of sexual intimacy and sexual desire

• Fertility issues

• Parenting issues

• Difficult family dynamics

• Affairs and infidelities

• Intercultural difficulties

• Sudden and overwhelming life changes, such as illness or bereavement

• Life transitions, such as becoming parents

• Depression

• Loneliness and isolation

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Whatever you bring, we will think through your difficulties together in a safe and confidential setting.