{"id":366,"date":"2017-04-01T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T08:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/?page_id=366"},"modified":"2017-04-20T08:52:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T08:52:17","slug":"couples-counselling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/?page_id=366","title":{"rendered":"Couples Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #8b20c9;\">Couples Therapy<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Couples Therapy offers a supportive and impartial space for you as a couple to discuss and resolve your problems.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Couples can be opposite sex, same sex, married, in a partnership or ending one. \u00a0Couples work canalso include other close relationships such as parent and adult child.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">People come to Couples Therapy for a variety of reasons. \u00a0It may be that you and your partner are in conflict, or facing separation or divorce.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You may be experiencing sexual difficulties or life-changes such as becoming new parents or children leaving home.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The aim of Couples Therapy is to allow both parties equal time and space to give their point of view and hear their partner&#8217;s. This open communication will help a couple to understand each other more fully, and to work together to find ways out of their current difficulty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My role as a therapist is to\u00a0facilitate\u00a0more effective communication. \u00a0This may involve clarifying unhelpful patterns of behaviour and supporting you to express your feelings, needs and wants.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Being stuck in old patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving is a common human experience.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Couples Therapy can help you do things differently.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couples Therapy Couples Therapy offers a supportive and impartial space for you as a couple to discuss and resolve your problems. Couples can be opposite sex, same sex, married, in a partnership or ending one. \u00a0Couples work canalso include other close relationships such as parent and adult child. People come to Couples Therapy for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_single-header-wide.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinesmithpsychotherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}