What is Marriage and Relationship Counselling?
Couples counselling is a specialized field in psychology that aims to repair relationships undergoing conflict due to financial issues, distrust, infidelity and lack of communication
My role is to join the couple and journey with them through the many obstacles that they have in their relationship. In a non-judgmental and impartial way, I will help couples to create new bonding experiences with their partner. There are reasons for your behaviour and your partner’s behaviour that makes sense, and I can help you and your partner uncover these reasons.
What significant issues do couples face?
- Not feeling loved - Lack of emotional closeness
- Constant arguments - Trust issues
- Lack of communication - Lack of sexual intimacy
- Infidelity - Money problems
Through a specialised technique called Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), we can improve the bond between two people in a relationship. EFCT is a type of therapy that makes sense of rigid interactions and unhealthy behavioural patterns between two people in a relationship. The essence of EFCT utilises systemic and humanistic principles to strengthen the couple’s bond. EFCT encourages people to become more emotionally accessible and responsible and engage with one another more
As part of this process, I will first see the couple together for the first time and then follow that up with one individual session each. Thereafter we continue working with the couple for a recommended minimum of 8 sessions together. Some couples need more and some couples less time in therapy - most marriage and relationship problems cannot be solved and the bond restored in just a few sessions.
I make sure all my couples I work with are fully committed to this treatment programme as success is only possible if both parties commit to working on resolving the issues at hand.