Many relationships experience conflict and finding problems does not always mean the end. Many couples encounter problems and spend years trying to work through them without any success. However, relationship counselling can be the key. When looking for the right relationship counsellor Chelsea residents can explore many options. Paul Barrett has significant experience counselling couples and in relationship counselling, helping both parties get stronger and build a better future. Consequently, arranging an appointment to discuss your relationship and counselling goals could be a good starting point.
How Relationship Counselling Can Help
Relationship counselling is an opportunity to sit and talk freely with your partner in a safe environment. Your counsellor is a non-judgemental support throughout the process and can help in identifying questions to ask and areas to explore. It can help individuals to learn more about their partner and appreciate their perspective mor clearly. Couples counselling can also help individuals to modify their negative behaviours and learn how to build better communication skills and grow together within the relationship. Counselling may also be an opportunity to explore difficult issues such as infidelity or jealousy and find ways to move forward together, if both individuals are keen to do so.
What Relationship Counselling Can’t Do
Relationship counselling is not a one-session cure. Both parties have to be fully invested. It won’t work if one member of the couple is dragging the other along without their agreement. Furthermore, it is very easy to enter the blame game in the counselling room. Trying to avoid this is vital for a healthy counselling environment.
Relationship counsellors are not passive observers. They are there to shape and guide the process. A good counsellor will not allow it to descend into an argument or uncomfortable environment for either party. Relationship counselling cannot fix every relationship. However, it can help you reach an understanding of whether your relationship is able to be fixed. Relationship counsellors are not their to solve your problems. They can help you find the tools to work on your relationship. They can also show you new ways of thinking and communicating, but it is up to you to make the change.
Appointments with Paul Barrett: Relationship Counsellor Chelsea
Paul Barrett provides relationship counselling sessions in Chelsea. He is a member of both the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). As a member of these bodies he abides by their ethical frameworks. He sees clients for a range of issues for long- and short-term therapy.
His further training and education includes a 5-year UKCP postgraduate diploma course in counselling and psychotherapy and a foundation course in counselling at the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education (CCPE). Paul has also experience of using therapeutic interventions with clients suffering from alcohol misuse at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
To book an appointment with Paul and discuss options for relationship counselling, get in touch today.
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