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Couples Counselling Couples counselling offers a safe, confidential space to explore relationship issues and difficulties. It gives an opportunity to reflect on, and understand the dynamics within your relationship with the input of an experienced professional, and to practice new skills and ways of relating. Couples usually seek counselling when they have exhausted their own resources to deal with an issue or difficulty and are looking for help. Others come when there isn't a particular problem but because they want to lay solid foundations for the future, enhance their relationship in some way, or simply to have a supportive, confidential space in which to think and talk about their relationship. Issues focused on can include: Communication
Conflict
Intimacy and sex
Negotiating around sex, money, time or needs
Exploring and negotiatiing expectations
Cheating and betrayal, understanding what happened and moving forward
Change in life circumstances eg having a child, redundancy, illness
Change in the stage of the relationship eg moving from the honeymoon phase, making a
commitment or moving into later life
Separation
Generally Avril's work with couples is short-term ( 6-8 sessions). This is usually enough time to identify, and work with a particular issue. In some circumstances she might suggest working together for a little longer, or that a couple could return for a few more sessions later, if necessary. Sessions are either weekly or fortnightly.
If you would like more information, to discuss with Avril what you are looking for and whether couples counselling might work for you, or to make an appointment, please feel free to call her.
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