Premarriage Counselling
Any major transition in life benefits from thought and preparation.
When a couple makes the decision to arrange a wedding or a civil partnership, premarital counselling can help them explore their expectations, their plans for the future, and what might be involved when sharing their lives together. Individual styles of relating, which are often based on past family and life experiences, can be explored and understood. The counselling may include identifying the particular elements that their relationship needs to flourish and succeed, and how they will accept and manage their differences.
With the aim of creating a healthy, trusting and secure base to the relationship, our counsellors sensitively offer couples the opportunity to discuss and examine their shared intentions as well as their personal needs, hopes and longings. Finding mutual agreement on important values and principles can help avoid many pitfalls.
Working collaboratively with the counsellor, the couple can consider their attitudes to a variety of important topics:
- Communication
- Decision making
- Beliefs and values
- Sex and affection
- Finances
- Differences and disagreement
- Conflict and managing anger
- Children and parenting
- Family relationships
Coupleworks Therapists
Coupleworks is a group of six highly experienced relationship counsellors and psychosexual therapists.
Since 2004 Coupleworks therapists have offered couples the opportunity to explore and understand their relationships and each other within an empathetic and understanding space.
Coupleworks counsellors offer counselling remotely via Skype and in person at their individual private practices based across London.
Coupleworks Blogs
Staying Together through Tricky Times – holding on when things feel impossible
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Letting go of negative patterns.
Couples can find letting go is, in some ways, similar to loss. What happens when every conversation leads to a heated argument from which there seems to be no end. Words spoken get lost in a familiar pattern of louder voices and being unable to listen or...
Mother’s Day
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Staying Together through Tricky Times – holding on when things feel impossible
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...
Letting go of negative patterns.
Couples can find letting go is, in some ways, similar to loss. What happens when every conversation leads to a heated argument from which there seems to be no end. Words spoken get lost in a familiar pattern of louder voices and being unable to listen or...
Mother’s Day
Whatever else may be going on in the world – and who knows given the events of the last week – there is no question that next Sunday will bring significant business opportunities for many sectors of the economy. Every restaurant and pub seems to be offering a...
Relationships in the Doldrums
Quiet quitting For many people the covid epidemic in 2020 caused sudden changes to their style of working and continues to have a lasting impact on how work is structured. With many jobs it became apparent that location was no longer of prime importance. Many people...