Couple Counselling

The majority of couples come in for counselling when the relationship is on the edge of falling apart when there is a yearning for regaining the intimacy experienced in the early phase of the relationship, but also because of the fear that the partnership has become unsalvageable. Despite their best attempts to save the relationship by themselves, it remains filled with fighting, emotional distance, unsatisfying sex, constant tension, and personal anguish. If there are children involved, the desperation of the couples can be even more intense, as the prospect of separating and its impact on their children looms increasingly as inevitable.

Couples therapy is counselling for couples who are in a relationship, married or not. It’s usually said as marriage counselling. The goal is to enhance the couples’ relationship, or generally to assist them decide whether or not or not they should continue staying together. Thus, when a couples counsellor helps partners strengthen the bond between them, enhance the quality of intimacy in their relationship, and regain confidence that the partnership can last, the experience for the counsellor can be immensely gratifying. Equally, meaningful work is helping couples who have decided to dissolve the relationship to do so in a collaborative, respectful way, with each partner able to articulate the behaviours he or she contributed to the relationship’s failure.