Relationship Counselling, Couples Therapy & Psychotherapy Training

Improving Lives for Generations

For more than 70 years we have been helping individuals, couples and families

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Relationships, mental health, wellbeing

Tavistock Relationships is an internationally-renowned charity for advanced practice, training and research to support couples, individuals and families.

Our reputation as a leading couple therapy training institution, and a provider of high quality couple therapy, is underpinned by decades of research and evaluation.

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Couple counselling and psychotherapy

Whatever the challenge you are facing - whether it's dealing with infidelity or jealousy, or thinking about separation or divorce; whether you're feeling depressed or anxious, or simply wanting to be happier in your relationship - we're here for you.

Find out how we can help

Individual counselling and psychotherapy

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International therapy service

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City Wellbeing Centre

Demand for couple therapists is at an all time high

Completing our training will enable you to combine a career that is both socially worthwhile and yields an excellent income.

Our training is unique as we train you to work with individuals and couples, and provide both the clients and expert supervision.

We can help to develop a Family Hub model in your local authority

Keeping in mind the central principles referenced by the National Centre for Family Hubs 'Access, Connection and Relationships', we can help you and your staff put relationship quality at the heart of Family Hub development and practice. Find out about our offer for local authorities and other organisations.

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Thought leaders in relationship therapy and practice

Our staff and faculty have produced some of the most innovative and important thinking on working to improve relationships anywhere in the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Browse over 800 publications, research articles and policy papers
Subscribe to the Couple and Family Psychoanalysis Journal, a leading international publication that we sponsor

Find out more about our expertise

Tavistock Relationships counsellors write about the relationship issues affecting us

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Mental Health Awareness Week: Anxiety and Relationships: What does the research say?

Andrew Balfour, CEO of Tavistock Relationships, explains how the charity’s ‘Living Together with Dementia’ service supports people with dementia, and their partners, to harness their relationship as a protective force, helping them to cope with the condition.

Supporting couples living together with dementia

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When to think about relationship therapy

Yvonne Filler, Relationship Counsellor at Tavistock Relationships’ City Wellbeing Centre, examines some of the tell-tale signs that your relationship could benefit from professional support.

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What our clients say

94%

felt that the therapy had improved their understanding of their partner

92%

felt that the therapy had improved their understanding of themselves

90%

clients said that they would recommend our service to others

I would like to thank Tavistock Relationships for helping us during a challenging time. The quality therapy we have received from our counsellor has enabled us to grow and we have found the experience to be invaluable. I am so grateful to our therapist.

We are so much more positive about our future! Thank you.

Website enquiries

If you use our website enquiry service to contact us regarding any of our service, we will ask you to provide us with your name, a method of contacting you and information about your enquiry. We will only use this information to respond to your enquiry

Where your data is stored?

Your information is stored in Salesforce CRM upon submission, where only the relevant respondent can view it.

How long is it stored for?

If you decide not to proceed with registering for our services we will keep your enquiry details for up to one year after the end of your enquiry. After this time your details will be deleted.

When you use our website:-

Cookies

Like many other websites, our website uses cookies. 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. For example, we use cookies to store your country preference. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service.

When you use our website we obtain information about you from cookies which tell us your IP address, when you visited our website and which pages you looked at.

It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. If you would like to turn cookies off you can do so by clicking ‘no’ when prompted by our cookie notice. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website. As an example, if you turn off cookies, some information like anonymised ‘User ID’s’ for logging into systems will not be retained, so you will need to retype them each time.

Cookies are stored for a maximum of 6 months, though most expire much sooner.

Confidentiality

Tavistock Relationships adheres to a professional code of ethical standards which includes the principle of confidentiality. This means that we would not disclose information about you to a third party without your agreement, except in situations where there was significant concern about harm to you or someone else and this would normally be discussed with you beforehand.

We ensure that access to your personal data is restricted to members of staff who require access as part of delivering our service.

Your rights

The GDPR gives you certain rights in relation to the data we hold about you. You can exercise the rights outlined below by contacting us:

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In writing to Privacy, Tavistock Relationships, 56-60 Hallam Street, London, W1W 6JL Telephone 0207 380 1975

Under the GDPR you can:

Find out what information we hold about you
Access a copy of the information we hold about you
Rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data
Have the right to object to our processing of your personal information
Ask us to delete or restrict how we use your personal information, but this right is determined by applicable law
Have your registration information (if registering using our online booking system) sent to another provider
Have the right to appropriate decision making (TR does not use automated profiling or decision making)
Complain to a regulator if you think we have not complied with data protection laws. You can lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

Privacy policies

We have specific data protection policies for each of our services and if you go on to become a client, then you can access the policy of the service you enquired about here:

Clinical Service
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/clinical-services-privacy-policies

Training and Events
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/training-events-privacy-policy

Recruitment and selection
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/recruitment-selection-privacy-policy

Building Relationships for Stronger Families
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/brsf-privacy-notice

Between Us App
https://tavistockrelationships.org/contact-us/privacy-policies/between-us-privacy-policy

10 New Street, London, UK, EC2M 4TP - Tel: 020 7380 1975
Registered Charity Number: 211058. Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology.
Company number: 241618.

10 New Street, London EC2M 4TP
Tel: 020 7380 1975
Registered Charity Number: 211058. Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. Company number: 241618.

Improving Lives for Generations

Relationships, mental health, wellbeing

Tavistock Relationships is an internationally-renowned charity for advanced practice, training and research to support couples, individuals and families.