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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.

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Postnatal Depression: Understanding the Emotional Impact

Explore the emotional challenges of postnatal depression, its impact on relationships and how to find appropriate support.

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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.

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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.

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Why is divorce so lonely?

Divorce is a type of grief and bereavement. It is the ending of something (although the beginning of another thing). This mourning process is complex and grand. Often individuals are faced with a range of feelings such as anger, regret, betrayal, distrust, shame, guilt and loneliness. It can be challenging to express and share this bag of emotions with others, leaving people feeling alone in their grief.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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"Why am I losing sexual interest in my partner?"

Losing sexual interest/attraction towards a partner is not uncommon or abnormal. The loss of sexual interest (also seen as low sexual desire/libido) is influenced by a variety of variables that can be psychological, relational or biological. The most important thing to know is that loss of sexual desire or attraction is often a symptom — not the root problem.

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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.

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