What is relationships counselling?
Relationship Counselling benefits happy, troubled, new, and old couples in many ways.
With the help of a counsellor trained in relationship counselling, couples can learn to manage conflict, improve their connection, friendship, and intimacy as well develop healthier communication habits.
Research shows that the positive outcomes of couples counselling can last for years after therapy ceases.
Relationship Counselling with Bree incorporates Emotion Focused and Gottman Method Couples Therapy allowing couples to connect through emotion while strengthening their relationship with research-based interventions and strategies.
Some reasons people seek Relationship Counselling include:
- Improve communication
- Resolve arguments
- Develop and explore plans for the future
- Reconnect after having children
- Address betrayals, trust, and commitment issues
- Build strong foundations pre-marriage
- Perinatal support
- Exploring transitions into parenthood and parenting issues
- Revive intimacy, romance, appreciation and friendship
- Understand each other better
- Create rituals of connection
- Spend time together
How can relationship counselling help me?
Relationship Counselling gives you and your partner a supported time to explore issues that may be causing frustration in your relationship and family.
It provides a space for couples to reconnect and address emotional distance which so easily develops with parenting and busy lives. Positive communication and conflict management techniques can be developed together to be modelled at home ensuring you are both on the same page and feel a balance within your relationship.
Relationship counselling can also be a space to discuss feelings around parenting and the dynamics of your relationship through this challenging time. We can process positive and negative traits you have carried on from your childhood and the way you were parented analysing attachment styles and possible trauma.
It is so important your relationship stays strong through the phase of parenting so you both can come out the other side connected and strong.