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Contact Details
Phone: 07773 282848
Email:mary.oneill5@virgin.net
Cockenzie Business Centre
Edinburgh Road
Cockenzie
EH32 0XL
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Relationship Counselling
Unlike individual counselling where the focus is on the client, with a couple the focus is on your relationship. Like two overlapping circles where they meet is the relationship and this is where we work.
With this in mind it is important to stress that I will only see a couple together, if one of you can’t attend then the session will be postponed until you are both able to come.
It helps to have an idea of what you want to achieve from counselling and if possible for you both to come with a willingness to participate and be open to change.
The major aim of counselling is to increase your knowledge about yourself, your partner and your relationship.
Most relationship problems hinge around poor communication between the couple.
The three most important of good communication are respect, openness and perseverance. Good communication is harder to achieve than most people imagine and negotiation within a relationship as a means of getting our needs met is even harder.
I use the concepts of Transactional Analysis to explain and examine your relationship and I may suggest further reading or homework exercises if it is likely to help. Couple counselling isn't often long term work, (6-12 sessions). I normally ask couples to commit to a minimum six week contract in order to establish a good working relationship with me and to achieve some understanding and insight.
Often we find it easier to resort to our old ways of doing things and counselling is a challenge but if you persevere, even when you are tired, embattled and feeling unloved once you have established more effective ways of communicating you should feel your relationship improve.
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