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
The Heartbreak of a 20-Year Separation: Navigating the Unexpected
I have been working with a remarkable couple for the past few years. We see each other irregularly now and when we do it's more like a 'check-in' where they are able notice their own behaviour and speak about what issues may still be lurking. In our recent sessions...
Couples dealing with crises.
Couples sometimes come to us at Coupleworks to find the best way through a crisis. We look at how they can work together in order to feel they have some kind of control. This in turn will help them to find some joint necessary strength. I am not writing about a...
An Anxious Generation
Anxiety in many different forms is hitting the headlines at the moment and inevitably its consequences end up creating difficulties requiring therapeutic attention. One therapist, Owen O’Kane, has recently had his book ‘Addicted to Anxiety – How to break the habit’...
The Heartbreak of a 20-Year Separation: Navigating the Unexpected
I have been working with a remarkable couple for the past few years. We see each other irregularly now and when we do it's more like a 'check-in' where they are able notice their own behaviour and speak about what issues may still be lurking. In our recent sessions...
Couples dealing with crises.
Couples sometimes come to us at Coupleworks to find the best way through a crisis. We look at how they can work together in order to feel they have some kind of control. This in turn will help them to find some joint necessary strength. I am not writing about a...
An Anxious Generation
Anxiety in many different forms is hitting the headlines at the moment and inevitably its consequences end up creating difficulties requiring therapeutic attention. One therapist, Owen O’Kane, has recently had his book ‘Addicted to Anxiety – How to break the habit’...
Coping with Loss
‘Sometimes it lasts in love. Sometimes it hurts instead…’ Adele ‘The loss of a loved one is one of the most profound experiences of human existence…’ John Bowlby ‘Life can be amazing. And then awful. And then it can be amazing again. And in between the amazing and the...