Relationships can be a source of enormous comfort and also some of our strongest emotions. Difficulties can arise through communication, trust, intimacy, past experiences, changes in circumstances or patterns that neither person quite knows how to interrupt.
Reasons people seek help
- Repeated arguments or communication difficulties
- Fear of rejection, abandonment or being hurt
- Difficulty trusting or feeling close
- Relationship breakdown, separation or recovery after a breakup
- Sexual confidence, performance anxiety or intimacy difficulties
- Repeating relationship patterns you understand but struggle to change
How therapy can help
Therapy can create room to understand both what is happening now and what each person may be bringing into the relationship from previous experiences. When the work is individual, we can explore your own patterns, needs, boundaries and responses without turning the other person into the “problem”.
Where sexual or intimacy issues are involved, the work can combine psychotherapy with focused psychosexual and anxiety-management strategies when appropriate.