Resources for Couples Counselling & Therapy

About This Page

This page brings together a selection from our full set of resources. The selection shown here is relevant to Couples Counselling and Therapy.

About Relationship Beakdown

• Are You Sure It’s Over?
• The Life of The Relationship.
• Relationship Breakdown and Closure.
• Relationship Breakdown and Children.

The Adult Attachment Model

• What is Adult Attachment Theory?
• Islands and Waves.
• An Example – in Action.

A Bowen Approach Primer

• The Eight Bowen Concepts.

Couples and Neurobiology

• Conscious Partnership.
• The Goal of a Couple Relationship.
• Developing New Neural Pathways.

Co-Therapy for Couples

• The Co-Therapy Model – Both Therapists in the Room.
• Benefits.
• Your Relationship as a Container.

Mediation Therapy for Couples and Families

• What is It?
• How is It Different from Normal Therapy?
• What Mediation Therapy is Not.

Online & Phone Counselling and Therapy

• For Busy People.
• …or Geographically Distant.

Reflective Listening

• Couple Arguments.
• What happens in Bad Communication.
• How to Do Reflective Listening.

Relationship Counselling

• Gaining relief from the complexities of interacting with others, the difficulties of forming and maintaining relationships, and conflict resolution.
• Personal work around relationships with partners, potential partners, spouses, children, work colleagues or friends.
• Pre-marital and pre-commitment therapy.
• Working with people in recovery from broken relationships, and during the course of a relationship breakdown.

Security Questions

• Is this a practical question or a Security question?
• The benefits of understanding which is which.
• This blog post discusses an issue particularly important to those of an overtly anxious attachment type.

Sexual and Sensual Intimacy Program

• What is SIP?
• Looking at the Blocks to Intimacy.

Staemmler’s Schemes: Meanings & Behaviours

• How Interactions Trigger Couple Members.
• Meanings Informed by Many Factors.
• Working with the Model.

Three Simple Sentences

• How We Argue.
• Stopping the Arguments!

Twelve Timeless Tips for Revitalising Your Relationship

• Try these 12 Simple Tips in your own relationship.
• Tested by and on the Authors 🙂

Wabi Sabi and Relationship Counselling

• What is Wabi Sabi?
• The Wabi Sabi Approach to Relationships.

What is a Relational Counsellor?

• The idea of the Relational.
• What Makes a Good Relational Counsellor?

Categories From our Blog

• Relationships.
• Family of Origin.
• Communication.