Counselling and Couples Counselling
Geoff Miles Jill Sudbury Bridget Walker Mary Mooney Sarah House
 What is Counselling ?
~ Gently work through difficulties within relationships
~ Identify and resolve hidden issues within your psyche
~ Overcome obstacles in your life or difficulties with friends
~ Create confidence in your child and bring them reassurance
~ Resolve presenting issues through past life analysis
~ Relax into the therapeutic process with the aid of mild hypnosis
How Counselling can help...
Counselling provides time away from home and work to explore difficulties in a safe and friendly environment in which to clarify how you think, feel and react.
Counselling helps to:
~ Understand how family values, religion, country of origin and philosophy of life affect the relationship.
~ Reflect on how the past operates in the present.
~ Explore how arguments and rows seem to escalate in the same way each time.
What is Couples Counselling?
Couples learn how to:
~ Listen to and understand more about each other.
~ Communicate in an easier and more constructive way.
~ Negotiate difficult decisions.
~ Recover the love, respect and fun that has previously been enjoyed.
~ If two people decide to separate or divorce, then emotional support can be given through what is inevitably a painful process.
Common issues:
~ I have trouble with close relationships
~ We can't live together
~ We can't live apart
~ I want children, but my partner doesn't
~ We are not communicating
~ We love each other but can't stop rowing
~ We have different sexual needs
~ I can't cope with the jealousy
~ We have real money problems
~ The violence is frightening
~ My partner is driving me crazy
~ My partner wants a divorce but I don't, I just need to talk
Stages:
~ Single - and contented?
~ Loving someone - can be a happy and magical time, but being in love can be agony.
~ Living together - can be such fun but there can be unexpected difficulties.
~ To marry or not to marry - one wants to, the other doesn't?
~ Marriage - a contented time of growing together or more like drifting apart?
~ First baby - can be a wonderful blessing, but depression, tiredness, emotional turmoil and different sexual needs can cause misunderstandings.
~ Family - happy and rewarding, or everybody shouting?
~ Relatives - a source of comfort and help, or causing difficulties?
~ Life's ups and downs - unemployment, illness, bereavement etc., can rock the boat, or become an opportunity for growth.
~ Teenage years - navigating successfully through a possible minefield?
~ Re-marriage - contented and happy or children not settling?
~ Considering a divorce? Have you thought through clearly what it means for each member of the family and for your future?
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