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...
In difficult times, expecting your relationship to feel easy and effortless will set you up for disappointment. Instead, in troublesome periods, shift the goals from thriving to surviving Can couples stay respectful, even at times of disagreement? Sometimes when...
Thanksgiving arrives each year as an invitation to pause—to slow the rush, soften the noise, and look closely at what sustains us. For couples, it offers something even more intimate: a moment to turn toward one another and acknowledge the goodness that partnership...
The current issue of Private Eye (No. 1651 13 -26 June 2025) has, on its front cover, the question ‘Is Bromance Dead? A Photocasebook Special.’ Not surprisingly given the nature of that magazine, the six pictures accompanying the headline chart the relationship of...
That last minute burst of summer really was a surprise and a crazy adjustment to the anticipated rhythms of the year. Just as children went back to school and students prepared for college or uni – instead of the usual predictable pattern of settling into autumn...
A recent article by Dr Sandy Miles highlighted the fact that, in the case of trainee doctors, shame is a highly prevalent, though rarely discussed, emotion that is experienced by many of them. Unacknowledged, it can easily become something that damages their...
