Counselling
Relationship Counselling
Relationship counselling is provided by Theodora Huggins who is a highly qualified relationship counsellor.
Couples face many issues such as conflict, mis-matched expectations, distance, enmeshment, attachment, co-dependency, infidelity – affairs, jealousy, domestic violence, power and control issues, pornography and other addictive behaviours, sexual problems, and differentiation.
These issue are challenges in relationships whether they be heterosexual, same-sex or de-facto.
The focus of the counselling is firstly to understand the nature of the problem, to deescalate the conflict, address the problem, and provide strategies and interventions to resolve the problem.
It seeks to make clear the relationship dynamics and patterns of interactions confronting couples.
The counselling assists couples to build upon existing relational strengths and create connectedness.
Relationship counselling is suitable for individuals, couples and families.
Marriage Counselling
Marriage counselling is primarily focused on helping a couple resolve issues that are causing distress or distance between them.
Some of the benefits of marriage counselling can include improving the way you communicate with one another, reducing the number and intensity of your arguments, enhancing your understanding of each other’s needs and reactions, revitalising lost intimacy and restoring a sense of loving connection in your relationship and can help with negotiating or re-negotiating commitments.
Retirement Counselling
Are you ready for retirement? Are you struggling to adapt to retirement? It is not uncommon to see people struggling with their sense of purpose and new lifestyles and their mental health can be significantly impacted.
Some challenges you may face entering retirement include managing expectations and the expectations of those around you, adjusting to retirement lifestyle, creating a new identity, dealing with loss and grief of your old life, adapting to changes in activities, dealing with relationship conflicts and changes, re-assessing financial status and even planning for longer retirement.
Retirement is an opportunity to discover yourself a new, to step into this stage of your life with passion. You have much to offer the world and this is the time where you can give yourself one of the greatest gifts in the form of finding out what is most important to you and to redefine who you are beyond the worker role and to live a life based on this new found freedom.