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Has the spark gone from your relationship?
Find yourself longing for excitement, fun, and companionship?
Are you constantly gridlocked in what seems like a never-ending battle of conflict?
Has your relationship become like a pair of old slippers? Comfortable, but dull?
Perhaps familiarity is a source of contempt?
If any of these statements apply to you, it may well be time to seek out professional assistance to repair your relationship.
We offer many different therapies, including in depth profiling with but not limited to:
Prepare Enrich Relationship Profiling & Assessment
Prepare Enrich Couple Check Up
Gottman Therapy Relationship Check Ups
HCC Customised Profiling
These fantastic tools allow us to take a snapshot of the relationship dynamic, enabling fast and accurate insight into the areas that may need repair or revitalisation.
Don't spend another minute feeling unhappy, unloved or in despair. Your relationship can be improved.
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Make no mistake - relationships are complex!
Relationships can be the source of great happiness or alternatively the cause of immense misery. The dynamics between any two individuals are constantly changing and evolving over the course of the relationship.
Often, what initially excited us or drew us to our partners can be the very thing that years later infuriates or annoys us.
Within the normal realms of any relationship, it's typical to experience highs and lows, peaks and troughs. Passion can also ebb and flow as the relationship moves from the initial stages of excitement and attraction into a more familiar and comfortable coupling.
Defined roles within relationships can also alter dramatically with the birth of children, ongoing illness, financial pressures, cultural and environmental issues.
When some of the defined parameters in an established relationship start to shift from within, previously shared values can be altered creating conflict where harmony once resided.
When certain maladaptive behaviours start to creep into a relationship, we start to see or experience what is known as Dysfunction.
What is considered Dysfunctional in a relationship?
There are many behaviours and habits that can be labelled Dysfunctional in a relationship.
The list of traits below, illustrate typical* Dysfunction.
More negativity than positivity
Escalation of Negative Affect
Criticism
Defensiveness
Contempt
Stonewalling
Physical, Emotional & Verbal Violence
Emotional Check-Out
Gaslighting
Minimising
Silent Treatment
While this list is not exhaustive, these traits are those that we see in devitalised relationships.
What we focus on in Relationship Therapy
There is no one size therapy which suits every situation, however, the interventions listed below form a solid foundation for positive Relationship Therapy.
Emotion Regulation
Building Distress Tolerance Skills
Building Skills for Managing Conflict
Building Skills for Enhancing Friendship
Dialogue instead of Gridlock
Turning Towards instead of Turning Against
Collaborative Life Dream Planning
Creating Shared Meaning
Understanding Equality in your relationship
De-escalation of negative emotion
Fulfilment of Core Human Needs
Learning new forms of Communication
Utilising all communication Channels
RESTORING BALANCE TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP
