Relationships Ireland

How Couple Counselling Can Help

Counselling can offer a huge range of benefits to your relationship regardless of the nature or severity of your problems. Some of the ways in which counselling could improve your relationship include:

1. Enhanced communication and less arguments: communicating with one another is a big problem for many couples. Working with a couple counsellor can help you and your partner to learn to listen more carefully to what is being communicated to you, to reflect that message back to your partner and to carefully send your own message to your partner in response. This process is called ‘active listening’ and can help you and your partner avoid misunderstandings, reduce conflict, improve personal responsibility for your emotions, communicate more clearly with each other and improve your empathy for one another.
2. Re-negotiating your commitments: we all have concerns and fears about making commitments. Working with a couple counsellor can help you and your partner or spouse to share your fears and concerns about what commitment will mean to you and how it may change your relationship. This can help you and your partner to reach clear and workable agreements as a couple.
3. Better agreement on issues in the relationship: it can be difficult for couples to agree on certain issues with their relationship e.g. finances, roles, responsibilities. These agreements have often been reached at the beginning of a relationship, but our needs change over time and these issues which may have been comfortable in the past, may now be restrictive. A counsellor can help you and your partner to renegotiate these issues or offer suggestions which may ease the negotiations.
4. 4. Renewed intimacy: feelings of agitation and lost intimacy are common among couples who have been together for a long time. It can be difficult to think of new and innovative ways to stay committed and connected to your partner. Several sessions with a couple counsellor can help you and your partner to restore lost physical and emotional closeness to your relationship.

If you think that your relationship could benefit from couple counselling then you can contact Relationships Ireland to book an appointment with one of our qualified counsellors here.