When relationships aren’t working as well as you would like them to it can create dissatisfaction and unhappiness and a sense of isolation.
Research also suggests that when you don’t have a healthy relationship with your partner it can lead to an increase of cardiovascular disease and lowers your immune system putting you at risk of health issues.
It also puts your own individual mental health at risk for depression and anxiety. Couples in close relationships are known to live longer and more fulfilling lives.
Why seek couples counselling?
Relationship counselling can be done together or as an individual wishing to improve the connection between the couple. As we aren’t necessarily taught skills to improve our relationships, counselling is a safe non-judgemental place in which to discuss issues and identify the familiar but unhelpful patterns of conflict and ways to address it.
Why keep doing the same thing as you have always done and expect to come up with a different outcome?
Couples don’t often set their relationship as a priority in their life, taking it for granted that however when it isn’t working will sort itself out. So they try to ignore it by other diversions such as work, kids, alcohol, social media until it comes up again in the next argument.
There are a number of common issues that leads to couple conflict such as extended family, sex, finances, communication, different expectations, friends, behaviour or conduct, affairs, use of social media and parenting.
What if I am separated?
Even if you are separated, you can still benefit from counselling.
The relationship is explored whilst supporting the individual through their loss.
This is a particular speciality of Trish’s that she can assist you with. Relationship education and management of the complexity of emotions is offered to make sense of the loss within context. That is clients will come to understand the dynamics of relationships as well as their own to learn what sorts of patterns contribute to relationship breakups.
Why make an appointment with Trish?
Whether you decide to see Trish on your own or as a couple, you will be provided with evidence based skills and tools to introduce changes into the relationship. Trish is a dedicated Psychologist specifically trained in relationship counselling and has further extended her knowledge in this area by attending workshops by the worlds experts both here in Australia and overseas. She offers an impartial viewpoint in support of the relationship and doesn’t take sides.
Don’t delay. The earlier you seek assistance the better it will be as the longer the relationship is dysfunctional the more entrenched and destructive the behaviours become causing hurt, pain and distance. Unfortunately couples don’t recognise that they need assistance until they are in crisis. However it doesn’t mean that your relationship cannot be resurrected. Take inspiration from Maria Robinson.
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending”
Maria Robinson