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
Handling Relationship Bugbears: Practical tips to help you.
When I begin relationship counselling with a couple, the first few sessions (whether online or at my London practice) often involve partners telling me about the everyday issues they don't like about each other, which causes conflict in their relationships. These...
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION - WHEN BABYSHOCK BECOMES MORE SERIOUS Starting the Therapy Talking to couples negotiating tricky stages in relationships often means that they present with difficulties over communication and mutual feelings of not being heard or understood. This...
Stuck in a negative pattern.
Every couple is different and yet seek to be the same as other couples who at the same time are trying to fit into the group. This can be a dilemma for many people living together and seeking harmony. I try to work with my clients to enable a gentle shift in the...
Handling Relationship Bugbears: Practical tips to help you.
When I begin relationship counselling with a couple, the first few sessions (whether online or at my London practice) often involve partners telling me about the everyday issues they don't like about each other, which causes conflict in their relationships. These...
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION - WHEN BABYSHOCK BECOMES MORE SERIOUS Starting the Therapy Talking to couples negotiating tricky stages in relationships often means that they present with difficulties over communication and mutual feelings of not being heard or understood. This...
Stuck in a negative pattern.
Every couple is different and yet seek to be the same as other couples who at the same time are trying to fit into the group. This can be a dilemma for many people living together and seeking harmony. I try to work with my clients to enable a gentle shift in the...
Why is it so hard to say sorry?
When working with couples, I have often noticed a reluctance, a stubbornness, a resistance that makes it difficult for them to soften enough to say “I am sorry” to their partner. It feels as if these words are somehow an admission of something deeply shameful,...