Couples/Marriage Counselling
Are you at a stage with your partner, where you are not sure what to do next?
Are you at crossroads in your relationship/marriage?
Is it make or break time?
Do you both want to fix the relationship or at least be at peace with the outcome?
If you have these questions and/or any other similar ones then continue reading to see if Couples/Marriage Counselling is right for you.
Stage One - Your Own Internal Questions
This is where you are in a relationship and now beginning to think, do I really want this anymore? Can I keep giving? Do I have the energy to continue? Do they really care if I go or stay? Is it worth fighting for?
Have you found books around relationships that you are reading that have helped to shape your thinking process, for example the couples section on the client resources page has some good books on relationships.
Often to get to this point, anything from a number of things has probably occurred in the relationship, from a significant event, such as infidelity or some smaller things, where over time the relationship has eroded and you both awaken one day and realise that you’re not as close as you once was and not sure how it has gotten to this point.
Whatever the reasons are that have brought you here, the next step is what do you want to do about it?
Stage Two - Seeking Professional Help
As we move on from Stage One - Your Own Internal Questions we now move over to Stage Two - Seeking Professional Help.
Are you from Wigan or the surrounding areas and struggling in your relationship and been asking some of the questions stated so far (and/or any others) - then you have come to the right place.
Here at Empowered Counselling Services, we specialise in counselling for both individuals and couples together.
We aim to look at the relationship together to determine what is the right outcome for it and in turn for the both of you.
Stage Three - Contact and How it works
Now having moved on from Stage One - Your Own Internal Questions and Stage Two - Seeking Professional Help, we move to Stage 3 - Contact and How it Works.
The procedure with Empowered Counselling Services, is that after an initial enquiry is made, there would be an informal telephone conversation with both parties to see how you are both feeling about the relationship, each other and of course therapy.
At this point it is extremely important to add that for therapy to stand a chance and go ahead:
There must not be any current physical abuse (if so Individual Counselling or other domestic abuse (local and national) services are going to be more beneficial at this stage).
There must not be any substances used during sessions (possible Individual Counselling or local addiction services may be more beneficial instead to deal with the substance abuse at this stage).
Both parties have an element of wanting to be there and to try (if only one is willing, then other party won’t want to engage and this pretty much answers the question of where your relationship is at).
It is vital to understand for your relationship to stand any chance of survival or for you both to end with no regrets, then it needs to be given the best opportunity to thrive during therapy. Therefore these things will only hinder it, however if none of these things are an issue in the relationship, then we can move forward.
To also add, at Empowered Counselling Services, we work using one of 2 models:
Model One
We require to see each member seperately for a one hour session (which is charged at the standard individual rate of £44 per hour) before we see the couple together (£79 per session).
This enables you both to get things off your chest initially BUT also understand that whatever is brought to these sessions will then be brought to the couples sessions.
Or
Model Two
Where you are seen together for the first session as a couple at the couple’s fee rate of £79.
Then you have a seperate a one hour session (which is charged at the standard individual rate of £44 per hour).
It is vital that in either Model One or Model Two that you have the ability to have a session by yourself to either be ready to undertake couples therapy together (Model one) or that you are seen as a couple, then have the ability to reflect seperately from your partner (Model Two).
We will discuss the relevant Model on the initial call(s) with and then proceed accordingly.
Stage Four - Process and Ending
Finally, having moved on from Stage One - Your Own Internal Questions, Stage Two - Seeking Professional Help, Stage 3 - Contact and How it Works and now Stage 4 - Process and Ending.
After you have both had that single session (which may happen over the course of a week or a few weeks) we will then come together and aim to work through what the issue(s) are.
It is important to note that sides are not taken in Couples Therapy and ultimately it is the relationship that is the client.
Likewise, Couples/Marriage Counselling isn’t a magic wand to make everything perfect, like it once was, or was it ever?.
It is important to also note that the best thing for both the relationship may be for it to end and for it end amicably and peacefully, where you both have no regrets. Likewise it may be that two people have just become lost and need a light to find each other again.
Either way we will find the right resolution together.
Couples Counselling
Are you married or in a relationship and you feel that you need couples counselling?
Fee - £79 per 1 hour session
Fee - block of 4 x1 hour sessions £316
Fee - block of 6 x1 hour sessions £474
*other blocks can be discussed on request*