Rushcliffe CounsellinG: COUPLE's COUNSELLING

Couple's Therapy is based in central Newark on Trent. Get in touch now for an initial discussion to help you both decide if you wish to proceed.

If you’re interested in Couple’s Counselling, it’ could be that something is not working within your intimate relationship. Maybe feelings have changed or you are both stuck in a pattern of conflict and feel unable to resolve things. It could be that help is needed to recover from an affair. You have both recognised that something needs to change. 

Couple’s Counselling can be used as a space to work together and build a stronger future or it could be that the solution is separating with mutual respect. 

In our time together, we can explore intimacy, attachment styles, conflict resolution, affairs, communication and blended families.

Whatever your end goal, my role as a Couple’s Counsellor is to support you both in noticing repeating patterns and to re-establish communication and empathy. Counselling can provide you with the dedicated space you need to unpick these patterns. This can be hard work and it requires commitment, even between sessions.

Coming to Couple's Counselling can put you in a place of vulnerability. My pledge to you both is neutrality, fairness and compassion. If both of you would like to try it out, get in touch for a full initial session in order to get a good sense of what it is like working together.

I work with all couples who are intimate -  married, living together, LGBTQI+, non-monogamous or anything in between - I'm here to help you explore your relationship.  

I offer a 15 minute free telephone/online consultation in which you can explain why you’d like to access Couple’s Counselling and what you need from it. Together, we can decide if we are a good fit and how to proceed. Ideally, this is done with both parties. 

Session 1: I will meet you both as a couple for 1 hour.    

This session will be a time for me to ask about your relationship and for you to share in more detail about what the issues are. During this session we will be able to clarify what outcome we are all working towards. I will give you both a relationship audit to complete in your own time. This will help each person to self-reflect on their own experience of the relationship.

Sessions 2 and 3: I will meet with you both individually for 50 minutes. This helps me to understand where you are in the relationship and gives you an opportunity to talk about your own perspective on the relationship.

Session 4 and onwards: We will meet together as a couple for 1 hour each time. In session 4 we will discuss the relationship audit that you both completed.

Subsequent individual sessions may be mutually agreed upon during our time together. This will be openly acknowledged within our Couples work.

Occasionally, I may offer you tasks to complete in between sessions. You are free to complete these or not.

It is your choice to attend and also to leave therapy. However, I do ask that you let me know if you wish to end therapy. Ideally, we will always be working towards an ending and the ending is part of the therapeutic relationship. If one party wishes to continue individual counselling after our work has ended this can be agreed. However I would be unable to work individually with both parties. 

Couples  Counselling 1 hour - £70

Couples Counselling 1 hour on Saturday mornings - £90

Individual Counselling 50 minutes - £50