Couple counselling CPD - managing clients in the room

We will examine how we can help our clients in circumstances such as the following circumstances:

• When one or both individuals really don’t buy into the idea that they have to change themselves.
• What happens when the counselling reaches an impasse.
• When one person talks so much that he/she is preventing her partner from speaking - how to manage whilst still gaining/keeping his/her confidence.
• One person refuses to talk.
• When one partner thinks you’re favouring the other or giving them more time.
• How to manage the clients when the fact is that that you do really like one partner and think the other is being completely unreasonable .
• What kinds of issues are good to work with in couplea counselling and when to say, “what you really need is to get individual therapy to deal with that issue” because we’re spending all the couple’s time talking about one person individual problems.
• Doing individual and couple counselling one after the other or together - advantages and disadvantages.
• When a partner discloses an affair and asks you to keep it secret.
• When one partner discloses in an individual session that there is abuse from the other.
• One person secretly wants to leave the relationship