Support for Couples

When facing difficulties in an intimate relationship, it can be helpful to attend therapy together as a couple. This way, both partners’ feelings and concerns can be heard by the therapist and held in mind. The relationship itself becomes the ‘patient’, which all three of us will work to understand and change. Reasons for seeking support as a couple include:

• wanting to improve communication;
• entrenched arguments;
• infidelity;
• feeling unable to understand each other;
• wanting to move the relationship forward, e.g. considering marriage;
• navigating challenging life changes, e.g. moving in together or becoming parents;
• difficult family situations;
• effects of depression or trauma on relationships;
• difficulties being intimate, e.g. loss of sexual desire;
• struggling with infertility.