Couple Therapy – Relationship Tips

We seem to live in a world in which anxiety is never far away. A glance at social media or news channels can quickly be unnerving. And in couple therapy, different versions of anxiety are often central to the difficulties couples face, even though that might not be...

These three questions are often asked of me when couples come for their first couple therapy session. Often clients hope for a fairly simple answer, but all three depend on the specific couple. In this article I discuss ways of thinking about these questions, which...

If your summer holiday fell short of expectations in terms of rekindling love, connection or sex, you’re not alone. This is a time when couple therapists often see a lot of people wanting to start working on their relationship.  Sadly, high expectations that a...

With many of us travelling to the sun right now, expectations for couples can start to rise. Couples where one or both partners have demanding high pressure jobs can finally think about taking a break and spending time with each other as a couple, and with their...

It’s no surprise that affairs are a common reason why people come to couple therapy. In this article, I want to make some observations about the potential meanings of affairs, and rather than necessarily signalling the end of a relationship, how they can in many...

After years together, many couples find the 'couple fit' - the thing that makes the relationship work for both partners - gets lost along the way.  Sometimes what's needed is a new reason to be together.  Couple therapy can help find this.   Before we...

On (Saint) Valentine’s day, our thoughts turn to love. As a couple therapist I often work with couples to explore how they can find love again after years of being together. It’s often helpful for couples to think of the things that attracted them in the first place....

As a relationship therapist, I work with couples on a whole range of difficulties between them. It’s often the case that problems they experienced can be traced back over several years, often (though not always) with roots around when they had children, and indeed,...