I work with couples from a perspective that to have a mutually nourishing relationship we have to be able to respect and allow for difference as well as be able to find intimacy and connect with each other in a meaningful way.

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 Often out of awareness each partner will bring their early ways of relating, learnt in their family of origin, into their most intimate relationships. Couples counselling is a way to start to disentangle how those old ways of relating may be limiting spontaneity and responsiveness in the current relationship. Couples counselling can also have the function of exploring how to separate in a mutually respectful way if couples feel that their relationship is no longer tenable.

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Couples will be encouraged to have open and honest dialogues in the sessions and will have the opportunity to explore their unique ways of being in the world, how they deal with difference and how that impacts on their partner and the relationship.