How Counselling Can Help...
Counselling provides time away from home and work to explore difficulties in a safe and friendly environment in which to clarify how you think, feel and react.
Counselling Helps To:
- Understand how family values, religion, country of origin and philosophy of life affect the relationship.
- Reflect on how the past operates in the present.
- Explore how arguments and rows seem to escalate in the same way each time.
Couples Learn How To:
- Listen to and understand more about each other.
- Communicate in an easier and more constructive way.
- Negotiate difficult decisions.
- Recover the love, respect and fun that has previously been enjoyed.
- If two people decide to separate or divorce, then emotional support can be given through what is inevitably a painful process.
Common Issues:
- I have trouble with close relationships
- I want children, but my partner doesnt
- We love each other but can't stop rowing
- We have different sexual needs
- I can't cope with the jealousy
- We have real money problems
- The violence is frightening
- My partner is driving me crazy
- My partner wants a divorce but I don't, I just need to talk
Stages:
- Loving someone - can be a happy and magical time, but being in love can be agony.
- Living together - can be such fun but there can be unexpected difficulties.
- To marry or not to marry - one wants to, the other doesn't?
- Marriage - a contented time of growing together or more like drifting apart?
- First baby - can be a wonderful blessing, but depression, tiredness, emotional turmoil and different sexual needs can cause misunderstandings.
- Family - happy and rewarding, or everybody shouting?
- Relatives - a source of comfort and help, or causing difficulties?
- Life's ups and downs - unemployment, illness, bereavement etc., can rock the boat, or become an opportunity for growth.
- Teenage years - navigating successfully through a possible minefield?
- Re-marriage - contented and happy or children not settling?
- Considering a divorce? Have you thought through clearly what it means for each member of the family and for your future?
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