Couples therapy

Couples therapy will involve detailed assessment and practical research backed therapeutic interventions to help your relationship thrive at every level.

We'll begin with you each answering some questionnaires, followed by one joint and two individual assessment sessions. There will thenbe  a feedback session in which I'll present the strengths and areas of difficulty in your relationship and we discuss how we'll work on these. The reason for this detailed assessment process is that a full understanding of what the issues are is necessary for effective therapy.  

After assessment and feedback, we’ll work on the parts of your relationship that you’re struggling with. This might include rebuilding the friendship, connection and intimacy between you,  managing conflict better, supporting each other with your life dreams. We’ll use a  number of structured conversations to help you with this, including exercises for processing past fights, talking about what you are unhappy about and listening to each other. If there has been an affair, we work on this first.  

I work using the Gottman approach to couples therapy. This effective and unique method is based on over thirty years of research on what makes couples happy and unhappy together

https://www.gottman.com/about/the-gottman-method/

https://gottmanreferralnetwork.com/therapists/marcia-gamsu