Couple Counselling and Marriage Therapy

Perhaps because our intimate partnership relationships offer the most apparent and intense arena in which to explore and encounter ourselves, I have a particular interest in marital and couple therapy.

I also believe that one of our greatest challenges as people is to live fully as individuals while sharing an enduring and nourishing partnership with another person. My approach is to sensitively explore the patterning of couple relationships and to clarify and deepen the partner’s understanding of self and other.

This patterning may be rooted in the early life experiences or in the history of the relationship itself and my approach explores these in terms of how they play out in the present moment, in the current interactions of the partners.

Sometimes couples seek counselling because they have a sense of having “grown apart” over the years. Sometimes marital therapy is sought to assist with adjustment to a specific event.

My work with couples includes the following;

• Dealing with infidelity
• Adjustment to significant changes in life circumstances
• Restoration of communication
• Adjustment to children leaving home
• Negotiation of differences between marriage partners and resolution of conflict.
• Facilitation of healthy separation and divorce processes

Making an appointment for couple counselling / marital therapy

There are two working methods that I use and I generally leave it up to my client to decide which is more suitable.

Some couples choose to meet for a first appointment together and allow couple therapy to commence immediately.

However, some couples prefer to have one individual session each to get a sense of me as a therapist and also to outline the issues they wish to deal with in the couple therapy alone before broaching then in a conjoint meeting. This is particularly so when the issue has not been spoken about for a long time or is too contentious to immediately open up. We then have a third meeting with all three of us.

To make an appointment or for further information please contact me on my cell or by email. Contact details are here. Or if you would like more information about my professional experience and my orientation to psychotherapy go here.

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Some writing about love and relationships

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