Relationship Counselling & Psychotherapy
Edinburgh
Tel: 07714472674
Email: greene.victor@gmail.com
Couples Counselling to Strengthen Your Relationship
Couples Counselling in person in Edinburgh or Online
Couples can feel their relationship is dying
and recovery is impossible
Couples can feel very stuck because they have tried and tried to make their relationship work, but end up repeating familiar patterns and cycles that can lead to a sense of despair. Getting through to their partner seems hopeless; some have even tried couples counselling, and that hasn't worked either. They don't want to stay in a failing relationship, but breaking up their family feels wrong, too.
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It's totally normal for an individual in an intimate relationship to feel their love for their partner has died for good. The love is only dormant because they have detached emotionally to protect themselves. Working with a trained couples counsellor can be profoundly helpful in helping you to reconnect and to build the safety and security that may have been lost.
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As a relationship counsellor, I can support you in my consulting rooms in Edinburgh or online, whichever suits you best.
Thankfully we are seeing most marriages can be saved with the right focus, but many individuals in their relationship or marriage can feel their situation is hopeless and give up far too soon.
My Practice as a Couples Counsellor Counsellor in Edinburgh
Couples can become locked into repeating patterns of negative communication that often have their origins in earlier, familial dynamics that are outside our awareness. An important aspect of couples counselling involves helping you to understand these earlier influences and how they are shaping and influencing your current, co-created relationship.
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Common Issues in Intimate Relationships
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Coming to terms with a partner’s infidelity and dealing with the emotional aftermath of an affair.
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Sex and Gender Issues.
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Problems related to Anger, Depression and Anxiety.
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Unresolved Familial Conflict.
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Communication difficulties.
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Issues from the past influencing the present.
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Change, Loss, Bereavement.
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Life transitions.​
My practice as a couples counsellor is deeply informed by a 'Relational Psychoanalytic Approach to Couples Therapy' and 'Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy'. ​​
In my Edinburgh practice, I have been using EFT to help couples understand and transform negative patterns into secure emotional connections.​
EFT is based on clear, explicit conceptualisations of distress in intimate relationships and adult love. These conceptualisations are supported by empirical research on the nature of marital distress and adult attachment.
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Change strategies and interventions are specified. Key moves and moments in the change process have been mapped into nine steps and three change events.
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EFT is based on clear, explicit conceptualisations of distress in intimate relationships and adult love. These conceptualisations are supported by empirical research on the nature of marital distress and adult attachment.
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EFT has been applied to many different kinds of problems and populations.
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EFT has been validated by over 20 years of empirical research. There is also research on the change processes and predictors of success.
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EFT has been validated by over 20 years of empirical research. There is also research on the change processes and predictors of success. ​EFT has been applied to many different kinds of problems and populations.
