Learn skills to enhance your communication and improve your friendships, romantic relationships, and family relationships (including parenting). We draw on skills from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Emotion-focused Couples Therapy to help you to:
Develop skills for healthy long-term relationships
Prepare for cohabitation, marriage, and parenthood
Identify and break unhelpful relationship patterns
Communicate assertively in relationships
Change unhelpful beliefs and expectations that are impacting on your relationship
Manage issues of trust and infidelity
Tune in to what's really going on in your relationship and with your partner rather than operating from assumptions
When it comes to relationships it can be easy to get stuck in unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Can being psychologically flexible help your relationship? Read on to learn more about this technique drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).