Insights & Advice

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....

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...

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How to Ensure Your Relationship Survives the Lockdown

June Brogan is an experienced ‘Relate’ trained couple counsellor, now working for Online Couples Counselling Below, June offers her expert advice on the best way to manage your relationship during the Covid-19 lockdown. Relationships Most relationships are improved by the time we spend apart as well as the special things we do to invest into...

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Emotional Neglect in Adult Romantic Relationships

Emotional neglect can have a powerful detrimental effect on the quality and longevity of adult romantic relationships. Unfortunately, it is all too common and something that often leads couples to seek relationship counselling. What is emotional neglect? Sian Jones is a relationship counsellor and she defines it this way. Emotional neglect is the opposite of...

Getting Over A Relationship Break Up

People often contact Online Couples Counselling following a relationship break up. That’s because a romantic breakup can be one of the most traumatic experiences a person can go through. With the feelings often described or likened to as the stages of grief. It’s astonishing to think that nearly every one of us will experience a...

Try and see it my way!

Relationship Counselling By the time couples decide to come along to Relationship Counselling the problems within the relationship have often been going on for months, if not years. Sometimes since the beginning of the relationship. Whereby, the issues haven’t been sorted out properly, by one or both of you and they get pushed under the...

Online Couple Therapy Steps To Feel Close

It’s natural for relationships to go through lulls where the level of intimacy or excitement isn’t the same as it once was. One of our therapists at Online Couple Therapy offer some steps you can take on how to reconnect with your partner in order to feel closer again. Allow yourself to be vulnerable Take...

Relationship Warning Signs

Warning signs that you might need couple therapy A question our relationship counsellors are often asked is “How will we know if we need couple therapy?” If you are a in a relationship, then it’s more than likely, that occasionally, you will experience problems. This is completely healthy and anyone who claims to have never...