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The Benefits of Online Couples Counselling

People often ask what are the benefits of online couples counselling? The answer is…it can be a highly effective way to address and resolve relationship issues. Online couples counselling provides a safe and private space for couples to communicate. Which means couples are able couples to work through their challenges with the guidance of a...

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Effective Communication Makes a Happier Relationship

The Importance of Good Communication in a Relationship The most common problem most couples is face poor communication and an avoidance of being honest. Many choose not to say what is bothering them, through a fear of conflict or a concern about upsetting their partner. However, pushing your feelings under the carpet means they begin...

How Annoying is Your Partner?

Relationship Problems – How Annoying is Your Partner? There is lots of advice available about what to look for in a life partner – honesty, shared values, chemistry, consideration and so on. However, we don’t often think too much about the negative traits we are willing to accept and accommodate in a long-term relationship....

Is Your Partner Gaslighting You?

Gaslighting in relationships Does your other half constantly put you down or treat you badly? Then when you react they tell you that YOU are the crazy one and accuse you of being ‘oversensitive’ or ‘paranoid’? Worse still, have you started to believe them? If so, you may be the victim of ‘gaslighting’. Our marriage...

Avoidance in Relationships

Avoidance in Relationships Silence isn’t always golden. It can be grating, isolating and hurtful to be in a relationship with a partner who is silent or avoidant of conversations that they deem might be difficult. At its worst, silence can push the person on the receiving end into extreme behaviours through frustration. Sometimes resulting...

Emotional Unavailability

Emotionally Unavailability Do you often alone even when you are with your partner? Perhaps you frequently feel frustrated hurt or angry because they get defensive or dismissive you when you are trying to express your feelings? Maybe you feel like you are unable to develop a real emotional intimacy with them? Or you feel they...

Relationship Difficulties

Relationship Difficulties Evidence suggests that the ability to form a stable relationship starts to form in infancy with our early attachments. A child’s earliest experiences with who reliably meets their needs for food, care, warmth, protection, stimulation and social contact. Ref: https:/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles Most theorists agree that it is these early relationships that form the...

Why Online Couples Counselling Works

Why Online Couples Counselling Works Online couples counselling may sound like a misnomer. After all, isn’t counselling supposed to be face-to-face, with the counsellor sitting a couple of feet away? That’s the image that’s ingrained in us thanks to movies and the media. But online couples counselling works and it is becoming increasingly popular....

Are You Tired of Being Phubbed?

Phubbing in Relationships Relationships are often difficult enough but now there is a new obstacle getting in the way – known as “phubbing” – which is a merging of the words “phone” and “snubbing” ref; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phubbing The definition of phubbing is ‘snubbing someone in favour of a mobile phone’ Phubbing causes problems in romantic relationships...

Mind-Reading in Relationships

The Danger of Mind-Reading in Relationships Can you recall the last time you were confused in your relationship because you couldn’t find an explanation as to why your partner was behaving in a certain way or why they said a particular thing? Or the last time you felt worried that things were not going...