Individual Counselling
Are you struggling to make relationships work? Sometimes we have unresolved issues that impact our ability to find the right partner, or to have happy, long lasting relationships. We may not be aware that we keep repeating the same patterns, or even if we are, we don’t know how to change them. Counselling can help clients to understand their repeating patterns, by exploring them and looking into when they started, it’s then possible to start working towards change.
Often individuals struggle with low self-esteem, anxiety and low mood, which makes it difficult to work on relationships. How can you have positive relationships with others if you don’t have a good relationship with yourself? Do you find that when you are in a relationship you tend to lose your sense of self? After a while you can’t remember what it is that you enjoy doing and what your preferences are. Perhaps you become very anxious and needy? Or, alternatively, you may get scared when someone wants to get close to you and you end up pulling away?
Counselling can help clients to work on their self-esteem and confidence, by empowering them to realise their own strengths and skills. When clients feel paralysed by anxiety, the counsellor can share various coping strategies to help manage anxiety symptoms such as overthinking and catastrophising, for this Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can be very useful.
Couples Counselling
How can Couples Therapy help? Couples therapy helps partners to reconnect emotionally and create a happier and healthier relationship. Therapy can help couples to improve their communication, enhance understanding of each other’s needs and learn how to resolve conflict in a kinder and more effective way. By working through problems in therapy couples can start to rebuild trust and strengthen emotional bonds.
Respect, Trust and communication are the building blocks of a happy relationship. Do you feel that your partner respects your views and your opinions? Are you able to trust your partner? Can you rely on them? Do you communicate in a way that you both feel heard?
Therapists
Tricia SlaterGodalming | Tel: 07539 312692 | [email protected] | www.triciaslatercounselling.com/