Couples Therapy - How It Can Help

Why use relationship counselling?

Today's busy life means we face various pressures and stresses that have an impact on us in all areas - financial, physical health, emotional health, sleep, sex and our relationships.  Our intimate relationships in particular can fall victim as a result.  Today we are living longer than our ancestors meaning the life expectancy of a relationship or marriage is longer.  However, today's pace of life, with all its increased options and choices can add to the pressure in our relationship.  
We expect more from life and therefore, perhaps, we expect more from ourselves and our partner.   We expect our partner to be our best friend, lover, co-parent perhaps, partner in crime and fun, provider, etc.  Other stresses include having children or perhaps not having children, infertility, death in the family, loss of employment, ill-health, ageing, etc.  In the midst of these problems we may find our partners have seemingly grown apart from us, leaving us feeling empty, lonely, rejected or angry at the loss of bonding.  Many couples today turn to a relationship counsellor for help.  
You may find couples counselling useful if you're experiencing:
  • Increased feelings of alienation or rejection in the relationship.
  • Feelings of not being understood, loved or bonded with.
  • Bullying or feelings and thoughts of "here we go again."
  • Anger, anxiety and/or depression.  
  • Constant arguing or bickering.
  • One partner or both may use the "silent treatment" which just seems to exacerbate the problem.​
  • Loss of sex drive.
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  • Issues that may arise from finances, sex, housework, managing a family, parenting, social life, caring for elderly parents.
  • Infidelity or you've discovered your partner is having an affair or perhaps you're having an affair yourself.
  • Feelings of deep attraction to someone else or fantasising about them.
  • You cannot seem to relate to your partner like you once did.
  • Feeling alone in the relationship.
  • Perhaps you fear your relationship is going to end or end in divorce and wish to turn the relationship around.
Learn more about what's involved in Couples Counselling with an experienced therapist like Angela Jullings.
"An eye for an eye.......and we all go blind."  Gandhi