Social relationships play a fundamental role in defining our identities. We strive to live together in family settings, we have children with the hop…

If you have been hurt or betrayed in the past, you may start to resent the part of you that naturally expresses strong emotion, and decide to hide or…

When your partner suggests marriage guidance or relationship counselling you are unlikely to be over the moon about it. Yet the reality is that it ma…

Learn more about how fear of abandonment can impact relationships, and how therapy can help.

As mother’s day will soon be upon us, we should and often do celebrate by visiting her. After all, she has strongly influenced our psychological deve…

Here are ten simple tips to help you spring clean your relationship and build upon what is important over the next 10 days, and every day forward for…

Empathy is the ability to tune ourselves into other people’s sensations and emotions, and gain a sense of what is like to be them in that moment. It…

We all have a family. Often though that is where the similarity ends. There would seem infinite variety in families. We are shaped by the family in w…

One of the major communication changes since the late 1990s is the development of the Internet, social media and mobile technology all of which has c…

The role of the counsellor/therapist in the couples counselling relationship is to 'facilitate' change from what is happening to them at this time. T…

Toxic people tend to be bullies. They do not cope well with stress. They are the sort of people in organisations who react like children when they do…

To say someone is skilled at listening sounds odd. After all we don’t usually say that someone is skilled at walking, or seeing, or even talking so w…