RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING
If you are struggling in your relationships? Do you have areas of your relationship that are not working or not working how you'd like them to? Relationship counselling can help.
How does it work? - Relationship counselling can be delivered in various different therapeutic styles.
Relationship Challenges - The underlying causes of relationship issues are complex and unique to each person.
Codependency - The term codependency was originally applied to the partners of alcoholics, but it soon became apparent that codependent behaviour was far more prevalent in the population.
Becoming a client - If you choose to become a client at we will do our utmost to:
Relationship Counselling
If you find yourself struggling in your relationships, relationship counselling can make a real difference.
In our Perth practice, we use a blend of evidence-based therapies that enable you to understand, explore, and resolve behaviours and experiences that have an impact on you having the kind of relationships you want. Relationship counselling provides you with a safe and supportive environment, where you can uncover, accept, and move beyond your relationship issues.
Relationship counselling uses an integrative therapeutic approach. This means we’ll use a variety of focused therapies and tools that will improve your wellbeing and help build healthy communication skills and positive attachment patterns.
Our relationship counselling approach is compassionate and accepting and can help you learn to love and accept yourself, while building fulfilling and authentic relationships with others.
In relationship counselling you may work on:
The past often plays a part in our relationships in the present. As well as looking at your current behaviours, some deep therapeutic work may be appropriate. You will receive guidance and support at every step of your journey through the relationship counselling process.
How Does It Work?
Relationship counselling can be delivered in various different therapeutic styles. As each individual and couple are different in what they need and want, relationship counselling will look and feel different to each client who comes to see us. There is a wide range of approaches available to match your needs.
Some of the different therapeutic approaches used for relationship counselling include:
During relationship counselling we will work with your expectations, and look at what it is that is working, what is not working, and what is not working as well as you would like it to. We will uncover how unconscious processes manifest in your life, building effective communication skills, assertiveness, and connection with others.
You will work on growing fulfilling connections to enrich and heal your relationships.
Relationship Challenges
Relationship counselling can help uncover underlying issues that are both complex and unique to each person. However, there are often shared contributing factors, such as less than optimal circumstances in childhood. If you did not develop secure attachment with your primary caregivers as a child, you may experience struggles as an adult with things like dependency and connection, confidence, and having a clear sense of self and boundaries. You may find ways of being that were effective when you were younger are no longer effective or appropriate in your life today.
Relationship counselling can help you to develop healthy interpersonal skills, a healthy love for others and, crucially, a greater love for yourself. Relationships, and love, in particular, have a profound impact on our brain. Love and romance are a healthy part of relationships, but the relentless pursuit of a romantic or sexual “high” can actually hinder the development of genuine intimacy with others. Relationship counselling can help you to complete disordered intimacy patterns and shift them into resolved and healthy intimacy.
Relationship counselling can provide specialised treatment designed to help you:
Codependency
The term codependency was originally created to describe the relational patterns of the partners of alcoholics. It soon became apparent that codependent behaviour was far more widespread than previously thought. It is now understood that you are at risk for developing codependent traits if you have been impacted by factors like being raised in a dysfunctional family or growing up with a physically or mentally ill parent.
Codependent Behaviour
The following is a list of symptoms of being codependent or being in a codependent relationship that you may experience.
Relationship issues can bring up feelings like shame, fear, low self-esteem or anger, resentment, and hopelessness. But you can recover. Relationship counselling can help you to heal and grow.
Becoming a client
If you choose to become a client in our Perth practice for relationship counselling, we can help you to:
In our practice, we can offer you confidential and effective relationship counselling tailored to your individual needs and goals. The therapeutic approach used will be the one that best fits you.
If you are struggling with relationship issues we are here to help. Call us now to find out more about relationship counselling or if you are ready to make an appointment you can do so easily online.
How does it work? - Relationship counselling can be delivered in various different therapeutic styles.
Relationship Challenges - The underlying causes of relationship issues are complex and unique to each person.
Codependency - The term codependency was originally applied to the partners of alcoholics, but it soon became apparent that codependent behaviour was far more prevalent in the population.
Becoming a client - If you choose to become a client at we will do our utmost to:
Relationship Counselling
If you find yourself struggling in your relationships, relationship counselling can make a real difference.
In our Perth practice, we use a blend of evidence-based therapies that enable you to understand, explore, and resolve behaviours and experiences that have an impact on you having the kind of relationships you want. Relationship counselling provides you with a safe and supportive environment, where you can uncover, accept, and move beyond your relationship issues.
Relationship counselling uses an integrative therapeutic approach. This means we’ll use a variety of focused therapies and tools that will improve your wellbeing and help build healthy communication skills and positive attachment patterns.
Our relationship counselling approach is compassionate and accepting and can help you learn to love and accept yourself, while building fulfilling and authentic relationships with others.
In relationship counselling you may work on:
- identifying and changing behaviours and communication styles that are ineffective
- building healthy, connected relationships
- setting appropriate and timely boundaries
- practicing genuine intimacy
- building self-esteem
- developing great interpersonal skills
- practicing assertiveness tools
- regulating emotions effectively
The past often plays a part in our relationships in the present. As well as looking at your current behaviours, some deep therapeutic work may be appropriate. You will receive guidance and support at every step of your journey through the relationship counselling process.
How Does It Work?
Relationship counselling can be delivered in various different therapeutic styles. As each individual and couple are different in what they need and want, relationship counselling will look and feel different to each client who comes to see us. There is a wide range of approaches available to match your needs.
Some of the different therapeutic approaches used for relationship counselling include:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – which focuses on the interconnectedness of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, and changing patterns that are unhelpful in your life.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – which aims to increase awareness, acceptance, and openness to thoughts and emotions. During sessions you will explore the values and strengths you already have, that can help guide you through conflict in a relationship.
During relationship counselling we will work with your expectations, and look at what it is that is working, what is not working, and what is not working as well as you would like it to. We will uncover how unconscious processes manifest in your life, building effective communication skills, assertiveness, and connection with others.
You will work on growing fulfilling connections to enrich and heal your relationships.
Relationship Challenges
Relationship counselling can help uncover underlying issues that are both complex and unique to each person. However, there are often shared contributing factors, such as less than optimal circumstances in childhood. If you did not develop secure attachment with your primary caregivers as a child, you may experience struggles as an adult with things like dependency and connection, confidence, and having a clear sense of self and boundaries. You may find ways of being that were effective when you were younger are no longer effective or appropriate in your life today.
Relationship counselling can help you to develop healthy interpersonal skills, a healthy love for others and, crucially, a greater love for yourself. Relationships, and love, in particular, have a profound impact on our brain. Love and romance are a healthy part of relationships, but the relentless pursuit of a romantic or sexual “high” can actually hinder the development of genuine intimacy with others. Relationship counselling can help you to complete disordered intimacy patterns and shift them into resolved and healthy intimacy.
Relationship counselling can provide specialised treatment designed to help you:
- challenge your unhealthy patterns of thinking and behaviours
- develop skills and tools that enable you to create and maintain genuine and fulfilling intimate relationships
- learn to regulate your mood and cope with life without depending on relationships
Codependency
The term codependency was originally created to describe the relational patterns of the partners of alcoholics. It soon became apparent that codependent behaviour was far more widespread than previously thought. It is now understood that you are at risk for developing codependent traits if you have been impacted by factors like being raised in a dysfunctional family or growing up with a physically or mentally ill parent.
Codependent Behaviour
The following is a list of symptoms of being codependent or being in a codependent relationship that you may experience.
- Care-taking - The most well documented of the codependency traits is care-taking. Do you try and fix other people’s problems to the detriment of your own life?
- Low self-esteem- Do you feel that you’re not good enough or compare yourself unfavourably to others?
- Intimacy issues - Are you able to be the real ‘you’ in relationships? Sometimes the fear of abandonment or fear of being judged may get you to the point where it is actually difficult to be yourself.
- People-pleasing - Do you try to accommodate other people, and fear that you will be rejected if you are not able to, to the detriment of your own life?
- Boundary issues - Do you feel responsible for other people’s feelings and problems or place the responsibility for your own on someone else?
- Control - Control is not always exerted in the traditional, overbearing sense. People-pleasing, care-taking and other soft control methods can be used to control and manipulate people too. Do you feel the need to control the people in your life?
- Dependency - Do you find it almost impossible or very hard to leave relationships even when they are painful or unhealthy?
Relationship issues can bring up feelings like shame, fear, low self-esteem or anger, resentment, and hopelessness. But you can recover. Relationship counselling can help you to heal and grow.
Becoming a client
If you choose to become a client in our Perth practice for relationship counselling, we can help you to:
- overcome blocks to healthy and fulfilling relationships
- set and reach therapeutic goals
- help you to process and heal the past
- work on healing and loving yourself and others effectively
In our practice, we can offer you confidential and effective relationship counselling tailored to your individual needs and goals. The therapeutic approach used will be the one that best fits you.
If you are struggling with relationship issues we are here to help. Call us now to find out more about relationship counselling or if you are ready to make an appointment you can do so easily online.