Marriage and Couples Counselling to Strengthen Your Relationship

Couples can become locked into repeating patterns of negative communication that often have their origins in earlier, familial dynamics that are outside their 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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As an experienced couples counsellor in Edinburgh, I help partners strengthen communication, rebuild emotional connection, and understand the deeper patterns affecting their relationship. Couples counselling offers a safe and supportive space for both individuals to express their needs, gain clarity, and work toward healthier, more secure ways of relating.

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Common Issues in Intimate Relationships

 

Here are some of the most common issues couples bring to therapy in my Edinburgh counselling practice:

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• Coming to terms with a partner’s infidelity and dealing with the emotional aftermath of an affair.

• Sex and Gender Issues.

• Problems related to Anger, Depression and Anxiety.

• Unresolved Familial Conflict.

• Communication difficulties.

• Issues from the past are influencing the present. 

• Change, Loss, Bereavement.

• Life transitions.​​

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Understanding these challenges is the first step toward creating healthier, more secure relationships.

 

My practice as a couples counsellor is deeply informed by 'Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy'. ​​

 

In my Edinburgh practice, I have been using emotion-focused therapy (EFT) to help couples understand and transform negative patterns into secure emotional connections. I also offer individual counselling for clients who want personal therapeutic support alongside couples work.

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If you’d like to arrange a session, you can contact me here.

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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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Change strategies and interventions are specified. Key moves and moments in the change process have been mapped into nine steps and three change events.

 

• 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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I offer couples counselling in Edinburgh, online or in person, supporting partners across Scotland.

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