Understanding Relationship Patterns

Over my years as a relationship counsellor in North London, I have noticed certain patterns in the ways couples relate to one another. These can influence everything from how partners handle disagreements to how they express affection and support each other. Every...

Revenge – when hurt becomes a demand for the other to hurt too

Revenge When hurt becomes a demand for the other to hurt too  The hidden cost of payback in relationships  It’s only been in recent times that people in the news are so publicly taking on those who have allegedly caused hurt, sometimes decades ago. We are all now...

The Need for Compassion in Anxious Times

In his book ‘Addicted to Anxiety: How to Break the Habit’, Owen O’Kane is of the opinion that we are living through an age of anxiety. This period of history will be understood as the world struggling with yet another epidemic. Not an epidemic caused by a virus like...

Choose a therapist or AI?

Whether it’s the Encyclical from the Pope, problems facing graduates finding jobs, course work in schools and universities, or the creation of new vaccines there can be no doubt that AI is at the top of the agenda as far as any account of current social,...

Family Life Stages. Leaving the nest.

Family Life Stages:  Leaving the nest. There are many stages in family life that can bring people into therapy.  At Coupleworks, we often find that after navigating the years of birth, toddlerhood, primary school, secondary school and the end of formal...