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
When Love Grieves Differently: What Hamnet Teaches Us About Couples and Loss
In Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell offers a tender, devastating portrait of grief—not as a shared experience that naturally brings people closer, but as something deeply personal that can quietly pull partners apart. The novel (and now movie) shows how two people can love...
Couples Counselling for Older Couples
January is often framed as a fresh start and a time to set new goals. Yet for many older couples who have been together for decades, this time of year can feel more like a time to slow down. With the festivities over and fewer social demands from friends and family,...
Love on the Menu – why Eating Together Matters
When we think about relationship challenges, food is rarely the first thing that comes to mind. Couples usually focus on communication, trust, intimacy, or conflict. Yet in the therapy room, food often tells a quiet, but powerful story about how partners care for each...
When Love Grieves Differently: What Hamnet Teaches Us About Couples and Loss
In Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell offers a tender, devastating portrait of grief—not as a shared experience that naturally brings people closer, but as something deeply personal that can quietly pull partners apart. The novel (and now movie) shows how two people can love...
Couples Counselling for Older Couples
January is often framed as a fresh start and a time to set new goals. Yet for many older couples who have been together for decades, this time of year can feel more like a time to slow down. With the festivities over and fewer social demands from friends and family,...
Love on the Menu – why Eating Together Matters
When we think about relationship challenges, food is rarely the first thing that comes to mind. Couples usually focus on communication, trust, intimacy, or conflict. Yet in the therapy room, food often tells a quiet, but powerful story about how partners care for each...
When Couples Mirror Nations: Conflict, Listening, and the Path to Peace
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...