One of the most common reasons people seek counselling is for relationship issues.

 

Meaningful and satisfying relationships are a major determinant of happiness and general wellbeing yet many people struggle to develop and maintain them.

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Relationship issues can arise within a marriage or intimate partnership, within a family, with friendships and with workmates.

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Common Relationship Issues:

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• Communication difficulties, e.g. inability to be authentic, inability to self-reflect, inability to say what you want or need or think, inability to listen without getting defensive etc.

• Authority Issues, e.g. fear of, or resentment toward, those we perceive have authority over us. This could be an employer, team captain, bank manager, police etc.

• Abandonment issues

• Commitment anxieties

• Affairs / unfaithfulness, i.e. when a person needs to look outside their relationship to get their physical, mental or emotional needs met

• Codependency issues

• Lonliness and isolation issues

• Sex and intimacy issues

• Separations and divorce

• Problems finding suitable partners

• Holding and being with differences in relationship

• Insecurity and possessiveness in relationship