Why Do I Feel Guilty Setting Boundaries With My Parents?
Why do you feel guilty setting boundaries with your parents? Explore how family expectations, people-pleasing and childhood experiences can make it difficult to say no, and how psychotherapy can help you develop healthier boundaries and greater emotional independence. Sara offers individual therapy online and in person in London.
Postnatal Depression: Understanding the Emotional Impact
Explore the emotional challenges of postnatal depression, its impact on relationships and how to find appropriate support.
Separation and Divorce: Navigating the End of a Relationship
Separation and divorce can bring grief, uncertainty and difficult decisions. Explore how couples therapy can help you understand your relationship and navigate the way forward.
Affairs and Betrayal: Can a Relationship Recover?
Discover how couples therapy can help you navigate infidelity, rebuild trust and decide what comes next. Couples therapy in London.
ADHD and Romantic Relationships: How to Improve Communication and Strengthen Your Relationship
ADHD can affect communication, emotional connection and intimacy in romantic relationships. Discover how to navigate common challenges, strengthen understanding and explore how couples therapy can help.
Anxiety in relationships
Anxiety is a common emotion amongst humans, because at its core, its function is to detect threats and danger and therefore protect us. Anxiety keeps us alert. There is a very natural level of anxiety that we need - to be cautious. But then there is another level of anxiety that can debilitate us, as it becomes a disproportionate response to our environment and reality.
In a relationship, anxiety can manifest in a way that challenges the dynamics between two people, leading to many things such as communication breakdown, distance/withdrawal, sexual difficulties and more.
How long will we have to be in couples therapy?
The type and severity of issues you're coming with, your motivation for change, the length of your relationship and frequency of sessions can all play a factor in how long you need couples therapy for. Communication problems, disagreements about topics such as parenting, finances, career, lifestyle could be worked through within a relatively short time in couples therapy. However, deep chronic issues such as infidelity/affairs, trauma, trust breakdown require longer therapy.
Is it OK to talk about sex in couples therapy?
You should talk about sex in your couples therapy especially if your couples therapist is a psychosexual therapist/sex therapist as well as a relationship therapist. Couples that struggled with emotional intimacy are also likely to struggle with physical intimacy.
Talking about your sexual relationship with your couples therapist is going to help you understanding your needs and boundaries (that might be the root of your communication/relational issues), explore the unmet emotional needs showing up in both your sex life and relational domain. It can also lead to building a healthier and more satisfying connection and bond in your relationship.
Is couples therapy going to save my relationship?
Whilst couples therapy can help your relationship, you cannot lean in too much on the idea that it will "save" your relationship. It is important to be realistic of the various factors and complexities of relationship and power of therapy. Unfortunately, couples therapy is not a magic wand that can put a spell or magic dust on your relationship to save it or "fix it".
Family issues - enmeshment trauma: family won't respect my boundaries
Enmeshment trauma (also seen as over-intimacy or excessive closeness) is a type of emotional trauma that is caused by a lack of clear and healthy boundaries in the family environment and dynamics. Over-intimacy/enmeshment can happen when boundaries (typically between a parent and child) are blurred, overly diffused or even nonexistent. This leads to the child being emotionally fused with the parent's needs, wants, feelings or identity.
What is Psychotherapy & what happens in therapy?
You might be wondering "What is psychotherapy?", "What happens in therapy?", "Do I need therapy?" - all of which are valid and important questions to ask before you consider starting therapy if you haven't before.
Marriage counselling/couples therapy - near me or online?
Does marriage counselling or couples therapy have to be in-person, or can it be online?
Losing sexual attraction toward partner.
Losing sexual attraction toward a partner is a common experience and can be influenced by a variety of psychological, relational, and biological factors. Understanding the psychology behind this phenomenon involves considering several key areas.