Copyright 2011. Caroline Harber Counselling.
COUNSELLING SERVICES, GLASGOW
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyse you,
they’re supposed to help you
discover who you are.”
- A lot of relationship issues do not occur overnight. It can sometimes take years
of pasting over the cracks for significant problems to become apparent. It is a
common pattern in relationships when one or other does not talk about hurt feelings
and disappointments. This unexpressed hurt can turn into resentment. The next
stage is ‘emotional deadening’. In this stage you feel like flat mates rather than
intimate partners.
- Significant turning points in relationships - for example, approaching marriage,
adjusting to pregnancy or the birth of a child.
- Depression and anxiety, or problems with health and work.
- As a couple grow older, the death of a parent, problems with teenage children or
the changes that retirement bring can all cause emotional confusion.
- For a couple considering separation or divorce, counselling can help them to cope
with the emotional difficulties and develop the confidence necessary to rebuild their
lives.
- Affairs and infidelity.
Why come for Relationship Counselling?
People often come for counselling when they feel they are in crisis and find it difficult
to see a way forward, feelings of being trapped and unable to communicate are commonplace.
In my experience this can also be a time of movement and greater understanding. Together,
in the course of the therapy, we can explore these possibilities for change in a
supportive and confidential environment
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING FOR INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES