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Difficult Relationships With Parents: Understanding the Impact on Adult Life

Do you feel guilty, anxious or emotionally drained after spending time with your parents? Explore why family relationships can remain difficult in adulthood and how psychotherapy can help you find a way forward.

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Understanding Anxiety: When Worry Becomes Overwhelming

Understand anxiety, explore what may lie beneath persistent worry and discover how psychotherapy can help you develop a different relationship with anxious feelings.

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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 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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What is Gaslighting & the signs to look for?

Gaslighting is form of psychological manipulation where someone makes you doubt you your own experience, perception or memory of an event. Gaslighting can be incredibly subtle and sly, and over time it has the power to erode your confidence in your own reality. This can lead to feelings of confusion, anxiety or co-dependency on the person who is gaslighting you. We can also say it is a form of emotional abuse if it becomes chronic and repeated.

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How often do most couples have sex?

There is no normal amount of sex to have. The only normal is to have sex worth having! Comparing your relationship with others' is pointless. If someone is having sex that feel likes a chore, that is not okay. No sex should feel like a chore. Rather, you should want to have sex that is fulfilling and pleasurable (both physically and emotionally). So, if you're having mind-blowing sex once a month, that is great.

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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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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.

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What is mental health?

Mental health how our mind feels and functions on a daily basis. The state of our mental wellbeing will impact how we think, feel and behave. The types of thoughts, feelings and behaviours we tend to engage in will determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make decisions.

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Family issues: Enmeshment + Loss of boundaries

When we are experiencing challenges with boundaries in our family units, we can start to think about the phenomenon 'Enmeshment trauma'.

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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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People pleasing - why do it?

People pleasing is constantly meeting the needs of others at the expense of one’s own needs.

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