Private Family Therapy
and Relationship Rehab
Feel confident, calm, and connected to your partner and children.
I teach couples and families how to communicate better, build stronger relationships, and enjoy life more. My aim is to help adults and children master psychologically healthy ways to solve problems, take responsibility, care for others, and create an atmosphere of respect and love.
We will work to increase your strengths; we won’t just linger on your problems. Your family has enormous potential, and you will feel more fulfilled when you see and understand the patterns in your life: your habitual thinking affects your feelings, your feelings affect what you say or do, and what you do makes all the difference to how other people treat you. Of course it’s important to feel love and respect with your partner. It’s even more important with children. I believe all children, no matter what diagnosis they might be living with, can grow to be confident, cooperative, and capable.
Stop shouting and start enjoying.
Jenn, Wanted to tell you about most recent driving-in-the-car success.
Daughter: MUM! (yawns) Can you….(I only hear a mumble)?
Me: (keeping calm) Sorry, what did you say?
Daughter: (haughty, mad) Oh, you didn't listen. (Immediate attack & thinks the worst of me and my motives - v common)
Me: (gently - instead of my usual strict reprimand tone) Sorry, E, I didn't hear some of your words.
Daughter: (reluctantly) Please can you see what's on 99.1 (different radio station)?
Me: Yes, of course. (!!!)
This = MASSIVE progress! In the past she would have stubbornly refused to say what I was meant to have heard and would have just made angry, frustrated noises increasing into a screaming tantrum. This time, when I didn’t tell her off, she found a solution. She said her words again. Problem over. Something we have been aiming for for 9 years! Thank you and what a relief! Oh my god- and did you see the ‘please’ in there, too?!
Mother of 2 pre-teens