Couple Therapy

Couples seek therapy and counselling for a variety of reasons. Working on yourselves to strength your ‘coupledom’ for your personal development as an individual and as a partner. Some couples feel they have lost the ‘spark’ they once had, others grapple with particular problems and feel its time to ‘sort them out’ e.g. relationship breakup or infidelity; others have complex decisions to make and are looking for an experienced sparring partner while some may be grieving the loss of a long term partner. My therapy room offers a calm and tranquil space for addressing and exploring those issues. In addition I work with a variety of special kinds of couple with their own set of unique challenges.

The couple collaborates with me in order to identify the key issues require addressing. We find the strengths and weaknesses of the relationship. The assessment includes relationship questionnaire, individual interviews, and an interview together. The step-by-step approach enables me to pinpoint the issues that need addressing and target a course of action to provide you with the right tools to help you solve your relationship problems. Sometimes couple therapy leads to individual therapy as a one of the partners becomes aware of other underlying issues such as feelings of loneliness, depression, a sense of having lost themselves, work pressures, past traumas or other underlying physical problems.

Age Different Couples

Including the impact that an age difference can have on a relationship in terms of differences in financial independence, fertility, retirement and overall health.

Bi Cultural and Bi Racial Couples

A mindful approach to looking at the many issues that arise in bi cultural and bi racial couples including the management of conflict, challenges of acculturation, challenges associated with raising bi cultural and bi racial adolescents, caring for the bi cultural family as a whole, religious differences, different perspectives on love and marital satisfaction. Mate selection and the decision to marry in a bi cultural society is also highly relevant.

Re-partnered Couples and Families

I help couples deal with the challenges of reformed families as well as preparing to re-partner and live in a step family, being a parent in a step family, household task distribution, and working at how to strengthen step family marriages by gaining insight into disturbed family structures.

What I am not Treating

Manic-depressive disorders, schizophrenia, severe somatoform disorders, eating disorders or addiction problems and personality disorders. If you are regularly in crisis, I cannot give you the care you need. In that case I cannot treat you. I do not deal with children and young people under the age of 13.