One of the biggest driving factors of happiness for many individuals is the sense of peace and contentment we feel in the relationships and human connections in our lives. This can be intimate relationships, right down to the relationships we form with our work colleagues and close associates.
All relationships come with hurdles and challenges, some more than others, yet we have more control than we think into how we process these challenges and react to them emotionally and physically.
With relationship therapy in Adelaide, your counsellor can help to guide you in your reactions and perceptions of the issues and events you face in your intimate and every day relationships and provide you with better coping mechanisms and strategies that you can utilise in your day to day life.
Therapy For Intimate Relationships
Even the best relationships can experience issues with communication, conflict and disagreements and coming to a relationship therapy session can help to bridge the gaps in communication, discuss conflicts in a safe and neutral environment and facilitate action for change.
Many people find the benefits of relationship counselling to be plentiful and help to build a strong foundation to move forward and build on in the future. As a result, many couples seek out counselling for their intimate relationships and there are many valid reasons for doing so.
Some of the ways that relationship therapy can drastically improve your relationship include:
Improving Communication
One of the biggest issues that arise in relationships is related to communication problems. Whether this is the result of conflicting or differing values or different personality traits and communication styles, it is possible through relationship therapy to help develop open communication again, or for the first time!
A relationship counsellor will teach you to understand each other’s communication style and help you to speak each other’s communication language.
Having effective communication in a relationship is not something that usually comes naturally, but relationship counselling services can help to provide you with the right tools and strategies and help you and your partner to share and verbalise your wants and needs in a healthy and productive manner.
Help To Build Trust
Trust issues in your relationship can stem from individual jealousy issues, previous infidelity in the relationship or any kind of breach of trust in the past. Once a lack of trust exists, this can erode intimate relationships over time, and it can seem like it is impossible to get back to where you were beforehand.
However, with the help of a professional relationship counsellor, it can be possible to work towards mending lost trust and rebuilding a foundation of trust in the future.
It does take work, but with the right relationship counselling, it is possible to help mend those bridges and have a happy and trusting future together.
Build An objective Viewpoint
When you are in a relationship and amidst the conflicts that arise within that, it can be difficult to view the situation and events of the relationship objectively.
One of the best parts about relationship therapy is that the counsellor comes from a completely objective standpoint and they are able to assist you and your partner to view the conflicts and issues surrounding events in your relationship from a more objective and even natured way.
Relationship counselling also helps you to remove yourself emotionally from the heat of the argument and this can help you to see the situation from the other person’s perspective and also how an outsider from the relationship may perceive the situation. When you take away the “bubble” of emotion and remove yourself to an objective headspace, you will often see things in a clearer and more constructive way.
Relationship therapy is a great tool for achieving a more objective view of your relationship and the conflicts that arise within it.
Relationship Therapy in Adelaide
Whether your relationship has become turbulent or is in regular turmoil, you’re experiencing conflict in a new relationship or marriage and want better coping strategies or you’ve recently experienced a break up or divorce and need help to mend the aftermath, then relationship and couples counselling in Adelaide can be highly beneficial for both the individual and the partner in the relationship.
Adelaide Counselling Practice offers both Couples Counselling and Individual Therapy sessions to help resolve and manage issues that arise in relationships.
You’re not alone, and we can help you to make sense of the issues you’re facing and help build and strengthen your relationships now and in the future.
Call (08) 8237 0509 or fill out the Contact Form.
