Relationship therapists see many distraught couples who come in saying it's all over. They have discovered their partner has been cheating on them. D…

Many couples have considered couples therapy at some point when they have been going through difficulties in their relationship, but may have decided…

Couples counselling can be an uncomfortable process. Couples most often arrive with one or both partner feeling apprehensive about the prospect of th…

When a couple sits before me for the first time I start by asking each of them in turn, “What do you think is the problem for you in your relationshi…

When we want someone to apologise, especially a partner, what are we actually asking for? An apology that we accept graciously, or an admittance that…

Recently, on Radio 4’s 'Desert Island Discs', actor Anne-Marie Duff talked about relationship breakups, saying that sometimes couples were at their c…

Sometimes we say what we mean and mean what we say and other times, especially with people who know us well, we expect them to just get it! There are…

Couples therapy reduces damaging interactions between couples, builds emotional openness and closeness, improves communication and behaviour, changes…

Many of us in relationships will look back on the early days with fondness. We smile at the memories of the excitement and are sentimental for the ti…

Addiction specialist Patrick Carnes coined the term the ‘Betrayal Bond’ to describe the intense, trauma bond that often develops between an abuser an…

I found myself saying this to intentionally interrupt a couple who regularly got into a rapid machine gun fire of words so intense that the first tim…

Relationships issues counselling Our lives revolve around the relationships that we form and often, we achieve a level completeness and experience h…