Couples Therapy
What is Couples Therapy?
Couples therapy can provide a non-judgemental, safe and neutral space to allow you and your partner to come together to work through any difficulties you are expericing. The aim of couples therapy is to support communication and understanding, in order to buld trust rather than assign blame. The therpeutic environment helps to ensure that emotions are expressed safely and that conflicts do not escalate. Whether you are looking to foster a healthier connection or support to guide you through a constructive seperation, our highly experienced couples therapists can are here to help.
How can therapy help us?
Couples therapy can support you and your partner to improve communication, resolve conflicts and navigate challenges and difficult life events. If you are feeling stuck, struggling with a breach of trust, managing co-parenting or feeling bombarded by external life events, couples therapy could be the answer. We can provide support for a number of difficulties, including financial stress, infedelity, additcion, bereavement, parenting and intimacy. Couples therapy can help to facilitate a dialogue and identify unhelpful patterns, as well as identifying skills and techniques to make meaningful changes.
What to expect
Step 1
Send us a message via our contact page. Briefly describe the difficulties you and your partners would like support with and if you are keen to speak to a particular member of our team.
Step 2
We will get in touch to arrange an initial phone call. This can be with both of you together, just one of you or seperate calls with each of you. This is not an in depth call but an opportunity to for you to ask any questions and to discuss your availability and main concerns.
Step 3
Your therapist will conduct a thorough assessment with you together, as well as each of you individually. This will allow each of you space to express the difficulties from your perspcetive and together identify shared goals.
Step 4
There is no obligation beyond this first session, so if you both feel that you and your therapist are not a good fit or that on reflection this is not the right time for you to start therapy, then this is entirely fine and you can let us know via email.
In person or online?
We offer in person therapy sessions at our offices in Hans Road (for a virtual tour click here) and Goswell Road (for a virtual tour click here) but we also offer online therapy sessions. Some people prefer the idea of speaking to someone in person, but online therapy can offer an easy and convenient alternative. Scheduling online sessions means that we can be more flexible with timings and offer you more availability. In addition, by meeting via video link you can engage in therapy from the comfort of your own home, without the need for commuting.
The evidence suggests that for couples therapy online sessions are just as effective as in person therapy. We can also arrange online sessions where you and your partner join from the same device or separate devices, whichever you prefer. We can also offer a mixture of in person and online sessions, to manage work and family commitments. To find out if online support is right for you get in touch here. We will be able to answer any questions you have.
Our Couples Therapy practitioners
Dr Charlotte Airey