Couples Therapy

Sofa at The therapy Clinic, Therapy Brighton, Therapy Hove

Couples Therapy is a form of counselling that can help you and your partner work through relationship issues and enable you to rebuild trust and connection. 

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Couples Therapy is a form of counselling that can help you and your partner work through relationship issues and enable you to rebuild trust and connection. It can help with a wide range of relationship issues including recurring conflict, feelings of disconnection, issues related to sex and intimacy, betrayal or loss of trust or feelings of being stuck or drifting apart. Therapy can also help couples who are not sure whether they want to separate or stay together or even help with the process of separating.

Sometimes couples seek help only when a relationship is in crisis or reaches breaking point perhaps as a result of a major life event or build up of conflict. But you don’t need to be in crisis or have reached breaking point  to benefit from couples therapy. Couples therapists can also help you to improve your relationship before issues and recurring patterns become too entrenched. 

Our Process

After initial enquiring you’ll be sent a short information form to complete that will include detail on your available times to meet. You’ll then be referred to one of our couples therapists for an initial session. You don’t have to commit at any stage but it’s envisaged that you’ll meet for a 3 session assessment process followed by a discussion of how you’d like to move forward from there. Your therapist will talk to you more about how they work, what to expect and give an idea of length of therapy to expect.

Therapies

Our Psychotherapy and Counselling models include: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Counselling, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Integrative Psychotherapy,Emotionally Focussed Therapy (EFT), as well as Humanistic, Gestalt, and Person Centred approaches, Systemic and Couples Therapy,Specialist Psychotherapy for complex mental health needs and diagnoses.

Our evidence based short term models include Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), and Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TDLP).

Meet Our Therapists

Issues

Issues we can help with include, but are not limited to:

  • Resolving impasses and stuck places that can result in frequent arguments and an inability to find a common ground
  • Healing and repairing trust in a relationship after a rupture to the trust
  • Working through emotional set-backs and trauma that impacts the relationship
  • Going through a bereavement, a change in circumstances, or any other significant stresses that have impacted your lives
  • Working through a separation process and wish to part on better terms for the sake of their families
  • Addressing sexual difficulties

FAQs

Couples Therapy is a form of counselling that can help you and your partner work through relationship issues.and enable you to rebuild trust and connection. It can help with a wide range of relationship issues including recurring conflict, feelings of disconnection, issues related to sex and intimacy, betrayal or loss of trust or ambivalence in the relationship and help in getting clear on what you’d like to happen.

Couples therapy can help with most relationship difficulties. Sometimes the signs are obvious such as long standing arguments or an immediate crisis. Sometimes there is a feeling of stuckness, unhappiness or drifting apart rather than a specific problem. If one or both of you are not sure about therapy, we’d suggest arranging an initial session to talk this through and help you decide whether it is right for you.

The length of therapy will depend on your needs, goals and circumstances. It may vary from a few sessions to a much longer term process but will usually involve a few months. At the Therapy Clinic this is something that you can discuss with your therapist who will be working to ensure that the therapy is tailored to your particular needs

In the initial session each of you will be invited to talk about your relationship and what’s led you to consider couples therapy. You will be able to discuss with the therapist what you would like to get from the process and ask any questions you may have. The therapist will also talk to you about how they work and what to expect from the process.

It’s important you feel comfortable with the therapist. At the Therapy Clinic as a first step we offer you an initial session with a therapist. This gives you an opportunity to get an idea as to whether the therapist is a good fit for you before making any further commitment. If for any reason you don’t feel comfortable we will aim to identify an alternative suitable therapist for you..

Not at all. We offer relationship therapy for people in different types of relationship –  for couples whether married or not, for those in consensual, non-monogamous and polyamorous relationships and also for people in many other forms of close relationship where difficulties occur – such as siblings, family relationships, and friendships.

Yes – you can contact us here or use our booking system.

Yes. We can arrange online meetings at your convenience, simply get in touch and we can arrange the next steps.

We don’t ask people to prepare. The therapist will guide you through the first session and work at a pace that’s comfortable for you.

Typically it would start weekly but this can be discussed and reviewed and arrangements made that work for you.

Rebuild Bridges In Your Relationship With Couples Therapy

Our therapists are here to help. Simply get in touch using our contact form or give us a call on 01273 068175. We will then reach out with the next steps.