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Goals and Objectives of Couples Counselling
The major aim of counselling is increasing your knowledge about yourself, your partner and the patterns of interaction between you.
Counselling becomes effective as you apply new knowledge to break ineffective patterns and develop better ones.
The key tasks of couples counselling are increasing your clarity about:
- The kind of life you want to build together
The kind of partner you aspire to be in order to build the kind of life and the relationship you want to create
Your individual blocks to becoming the kind of partner you aspire to be
The skills and knowledge necessary to do the above tasks
Keys to Improving Relationships
To create sustained improvement in your relationship you need:
A vision of the life you want to build together
To have a life separate from your partner because you are not joined at the hip
The appropriate attitudes and skills to work as a team
The motivation to persist
Time to review progress
What We Offer
We often work together with couples bringing with us a male and female perspective. There is no extra cost for this. We find this to be a highly effective method as it allows the couple to split for one on one discussions.
How Long Does This Process Take?
We would hope that depending on the severity or depth of the issues.. which by the way are usually around the areas of communication and intimacy ... a great deal of headway could be made on average within six sessions. The first session is usually a bit longer than the rest as we need to come to understand your situation as fully as possible.
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