Couples Counselling

Helping partners improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen the relationship

Relationship Counselling

I offer relationship counselling for couples. This can mean partnerships of any kind, at any stage of the relationship. It can also be suitable for a parent and an adult child seeking to improve their relationship or communication.

I see my role as creating a space where difficult things can be talked about in a safe, balanced, and constructive way. I seek to ensure that both parties are heard, and can hear the other’s response, to come to a greater shared understanding of the relationship and the way forward. 

It may be that you are bringing a specific issue that is very live, or you may be recognising an ongoing pattern of unhelpful communication, or that you repeatedly get ‘stuck’ in a particular argument or way of relating to one another. Exactly what we do in our sessions will be shaped by what you bring; I don’t work to a prescribed format.

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What to expect

Sessions include a mix of direct questions, giving space for you each to speak and be heard. Sometimes I will encourage you to talk directly to one another, with me as witness. We may agree tasks for you to try at home if this feels helpful. 

Couple counselling can address both the issues that cause a problem (e.g. an affair, a family crisis, a change that you’re facing), and also the way that you each behave in relationship together (i.e. the way you communicate, the way arguments develop, the way you reconcile afterwards, the dynamics between you). We would likely spend time on both.

Counselling is not guaranteed to preserve a relationship; and that is not always the goal in any case. My intention is to work with you to find a positive way forward together or come to a respectful agreement about an alternative. 

I usually see couples at a fixed time each week, but there is some flexibility on this if work or other commitments make that difficult. We would discuss this in the first session.

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 FAQs

  • Each session is an hour long. I don’t work to a fixed length of contract; we would do counselling for as long as it feels helpful. You are free to end at any time.

  • I charge £85 for an hour-long session.

  • I work from my garden cabin in Ashton Keynes, SN6. This is 5 minutes from Cricklade, 10 minutes from Cirencester, and 20 minutes from Swindon or Malmesbury.  

    I prefer to see couples in person. I can offer sessions online if this is difficult, but I recommend having at least one meeting in person if possible.

  • I recommend finding childcare while you do counselling, as this enables you to focus fully on your relationship as a couple without the distraction of your child’s needs. However, if that is absolutely impossible, we could trial having a session with a baby present. Once the child is mobile however, I can’t have them in the sessions, for safety reasons.

I realise that seeking help and choosing a counsellor can be challenging. I encourage you to take this first step and my intention is to make it as easy as possible.