Relationships & Couples

Relationships and Couples Counselling

Couples counselling in Bristol

We want a close, intimate relationship with one person we love. We want to share our lives. 
If you love each other that should be easy, right?
Yet we often find that it is difficult. We bring into the relationship different expectations and issues, often formed by our relationships with our parents, which have given us our earliest experiences of love or lack of love. Such issues can lead to repeating unhelpful patterns in the present.
For example, one partner may need to feel very close and the other may need a lot of space. Both can learn not to judge such behaviour as "Clingy" or "cold", but to understand and empathise with the childhood pain that led to such needs and be more tolerant of them.
Problems may appear to be practical such as sexual problems, jealousy, money, children, controlling behaviour, infidelity and many others. However, in all cases the main problem is how to understand each other and learn to resolve such problems together.

A safe space to talk

Within the counselling sessions there will be a safe space to say what you need from each other and to really learn to listen to the other. Remember, both of you need to be listened to and understood. It may often seem to you that your partner is the one needing to change, but it is helpful if you can realize that the problem is between you, and be open to the possibility that both your behaviours may contribute to the impasse.
However, it may become clear that the relationship is not good for either of you. Counselling can help you become aware of this and to accept and make peace with an ending.

I can work with any difficult relationship, e.g. between members of a family, at work, or living in the same house. Or if you want to talk about a difficult relationship without bringing the other partner, I can see you as an individual.

You can also approach me in case you are trying to cope with anxiety, trauma or loss. 
Call Ellen Hart today on 0117 927 2686
 For compassionate couples counselling
call 0117 927 2686
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