While all couples go through their ups and downs in close relationships, with numerous pressures that include, children, finance, communication and many others, it is important to understand that by having strong, happy and secure relationships we improve our sense of mental well-being.
When these feelings have been replaced by those of pain, conflict and resentment it can leave us with a sense of isolation and hopelessness. This is the time when couples counselling can offer a neutral safe and supportive space to help unpack those feelings. Sessions help us understand where and why those feelings have crept into our dynamics, and how we can learn to understand how we can improve our communication skills that help navigate potential conflicts. We can learn how we can understand each other’s needs from a relationship, to create a better and more fulfilling one moving forward.
We don’t look to point fingers of blame, simply to understand with compassion, and to reconnect and relate to each other in a healthier way.
It is for people who want to improve their own relationships and to develop themselves, and can help with a variety of issues, including intimacy issues, a breakdown in communication. Issues with fidelity and those suffering with financial strain and life changes.
How couples counselling works, is by looking at how patterns of inter-relating can be established in our past relationship history. We look to bring with honesty how and why we may react in the way we do and how that impacts those around us. Once we consciously become aware of what may need changing, we then have the choice to implement them. We can do this by learning tools to make those changes for our own betterment.
For some couples it might be that the safest and healthiest way forward would be to separate, and couples counselling can be an important part of that process.