In a committed relationship, it is crucial for partners to stay emotionally connected with one another because this connection lays the foundation for everything else they will experience, build, share and explore with one another especially when challenges arise.
If I was to ask you, how important having trust in your relationship is to you? How would you answer? I recall one of my mentors telling me that it’s impossible to build a secure functioning relationship if there’s no trust, and he’s absolutely right because trust in embedded in every fibre of the relationship.
Most couples do not break up because of significant events like infidelity. It’s the erosion of trust and build-up of resentment over time that turns love into disaster.
In this last instalment on the topic of repair, I want to dig a little deeper into one aspect of making a good repair that tends to be especially challenging.
In the last blog on repair, I described the steps you need to take in order to prepare yourself for making a repair in your relationship. Once you’ve completed those, the next stage is to sit down and have these tough conversations with your partner. This is often the most difficult step for couples to […]
I sat with a couple last night where the need for repair should have taken place 2 weeks ago, at the time when the rupture first happened. But, neither was confident or knew what to do in these moments, so they decided to park it till our session last night. Can you imagine what prolonged […]
I have heard it mentioned so many time by people in the first session, their fear, anxiety and reluctance in attending relationship/couple counselling, as they are uncertain of what to expect from the process in couple therapy. They are not sure of what to expect from the therapist and the unknown is often quite unsettling.
I have been focusing my clinical practice towards working with couples/relationships for the past 6 years, over this time I have arrived at several guidelines that I believe makes our work together more effective. First and foremost, I would like to point out, your relationship, is my client. As such, my primary role is to help you improve your responses to each other without violating your core values and beliefs.
I have heard it mentioned so many time by people in the first session, their fear, anxiety and reluctance in attending relationship/couple counselling, as they are uncertain of what to expect from the process in couple therapy. They are not sure of what to expect from the therapist and the unknown is often quite unsettling.
I have been focusing my clinical practice towards working with couples/relationships for the past 6 years, over this time I have arrived at several guidelines that I believe makes our work together more effective. First and foremost, I would like to point out, your relationship, is my client. As such, my primary role is to help you improve your responses to each other without violating your core values and beliefs.
I have heard it mentioned so many time by people in the first session, their fear, anxiety and reluctance in attending relationship/couple counselling, as they are uncertain of what to expect from the process in couple therapy. They are not sure of what to expect from the therapist and the unknown is often quite unsettling.
I have been focusing my clinical practice towards working with couples/relationships for the past 6 years, over this time I have arrived at several guidelines that I believe makes our work together more effective. First and foremost, I would like to point out, your relationship, is my client. As such, my primary role is to help you improve your responses to each other without violating your core values and beliefs.
I have heard it mentioned so many time by people in the first session, their fear, anxiety and reluctance in attending relationship/couple counselling, as they are uncertain of what to expect from the process in couple therapy. They are not sure of what to expect from the therapist and the unknown is often quite unsettling.
I have been focusing my clinical practice towards working with couples/relationships for the past 6 years, over this time I have arrived at several guidelines that I believe makes our work together more effective. First and foremost, I would like to point out, your relationship, is my client. As such, my primary role is to help you improve your responses to each other without violating your core values and beliefs.
