Relationship & Couples Counselling

 

About Our Couples Counselling in Leeds

 

Sessions are available both in-person and online.  If you find co-ordinating your schedules and obligations challenging or you do not live close by, online therapy offers convenience and flexibility from your own home(s).  Alternatively, I offer a comfortable environment within my home where you may feel you can leave your feelings and struggles for me to ‘hold’ until our next session.

Sessions can address any issues.  Examples include trust, jealousy, intimacy, communication and navigation of life transitions. 

Any relationships can benefit from couple’s therapy.  Relationships and couples I have worked with include spouses, partners, family members, affair partners and other non-monogamous relationships. Everyone in the relationship usually attends together. In the sessions you can expect to explore what’s really simmering away under the surface and identify what you need to achieve to move forwards.  That may mean together, or independently.

Why Insight? The Process and the Sessions:

Usually, I am contacted by 1 party within the relationship to discuss therapy and I offer a free 15 minute consultation for this.  Sometimes the other party is ‘onboard’ with seeking therapy, other times they have not yet been consulted. 

I would ask that all parties concerned are involved in completing my assessment form, either independently or jointly.  Once I have received completed copies, we can look to schedule an appointment.

I do ask that at the end of each appointment, all parties discuss whether they would like to seek another session after leaving and that individuals take turns to make these arrangements going forward.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • This is entirely decided by yourselves.  I will help you to review your progress along your journey.

  • You would need to contact a bigger organisation, such as Relate, due to insurance and safeguarding issues.

  • Examples include infidelity, infertility, erectile dysfunction, addiction, mistrust, re-establishing trust, parenting difficulties (link to blog?) violence (link to other page?) physical or mental illness (link to other page?), bereavement (link to other page?), work impacting on home- life, marriage, separation and divorce and the impact of social media and current technology on relationships.

  • There are many reasons why people may avoid therapy, including fear, shame, avoiding being, ‘unpicked’. People may be afraid to uncover buried pain and to face their feelings. Not everyone sees the benefit of therapy, initially, but everyone CAN benefit..

What I Can Help With

  • Couples & Individuals

  • Bereavement and loss

  • Relationship difficulties

  • Parenting problems

  • Difficulties at work

  • Stress and anxiety

  • Separation and divorce

  • Illness

  • Abuse

  • Confidence and self esteem

  • Self-awareness

  • Current problems

  • Long-running issues

  • Behaviour patterns

  • Childhood issues