Dec 1, 2025
The story of every couple changes and evolves over time. What one partnership can tolerate may feel impossible for another, and this depends on countless factors in each person’s history. Cultural values, beliefs about right and wrong, habits, customs, and the...
Nov 21, 2024
When working with couples, I have often noticed a reluctance, a stubbornness, a resistance that makes it difficult for them to soften enough to say “I am sorry” to their partner. It feels as if these words are somehow an admission of something deeply shameful,...
Nov 9, 2023
No one I think, can be in any doubt that AI and tools like ChatGPT are set to revolutionise our lives, and the ways we communicate with each other over the coming years. A friend of mine was struggling to write a few paragraphs about a club he is a member of with the...
Mar 28, 2022
This title refers to a book by Patrick Casement and was both informative and self-effacing at the same time. We find at Coupleworks that we learn all the time from our clients and never more so than during 2020 and 2021. Resilience, tenacity, the will to alter...
Jul 5, 2021
As a Coupleworks therapist, I have always respected my clients and their agenda for coming into therapy, no matter what the presenting problem seems to be. During the last 15 months, my respect and admiration has grown for people in very difficult circumstances, who...
Nov 12, 2020
For therapists, uncertainty is an issue that often comes up in therapy and never more so than now. It feels that over the past eight months when the first lockdown started, couples therapy sessions became more focused on uncertainty and anxiety than I can...
