By Marian O'Connor
A journalist from the Telegraph phoned me last week to ask how the menopause affected women’s sexual functioning. As always, when it comes to sex, there is no straightforward answer.
By Elle Sidel and Damian McCann
Do you often feel at the end of your tether when it comes to parenting? Do you find yourself searching for advice and support, perhaps turning to parenting experts or therapists, only to be left feeling that, however helpful or sensible such expertise and support may seem, it somehow doesn’t quite resolve your situation? Do you experience more difficulties in your couple relationship after becoming parents? Do you worry about the impact of such difficulties on your children?
Hazel Wright, Solicitor and Mediator
Trustee of Tavistock Relationships
For many of us cohabitation (living together) is a very natural state of being in the world today.
Finding out more about each other by sharing each other's living arrangements seems common sense. Additionally many opt to cohabit and ‘commit' together without considering marriage at all.
But there are important legal ramifications about these decisions that may come as a surprise.
Our specialist couple therapists helped viewers struggling with their relationship or wanting advice on divorce or separation, running a phone in clinic on ITV’s This Morning show, which addressed Divorce and Separation.
John Fenna explores our recent coverage in the media (via our therapist Joanna Harrison) on this high profile insight into marriage counselling.
As we celebrate our seventh decade of couple therapy, training and research, we reflect on how our couple work has evolved to meet the changing needs of couples and relationships.
Kate Thompson
A blog drawn from our publication 'When Parents Separate:Getting it Right for the Children:A guide for parents' by Krisztina Glausius and Leezah Hertzmann. In this extract we take an overview of the process of separating and explain precisely why a range of feelings stirred up make the task of co-parenting so challenging.
John Fenna
Head of Marketing & Communications
Whatever your views on Love Island, it’s certainly putting relationships in the spotlight. We receive a large rise in media enquiries, asking questions about relationship issues triggered by the events of the show, during its airtime for a start.
In conversation with Kate Thompson - a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, faculty staff member and clinical lecturer at Tavistock Relationships, where leading training programmes in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Psychosexual Therapy are offered.
The trend of couples approaching mid-life and facing challenges in their relationship has been a focus of our work since launching our Couple 50+ MOT service. And the growing appeal of the idea of ‘checking in’ with each other with some form of counselling to help ‘keep things on track’ has been picked up by the Sunday Telegraph in an interview based article in its female orientated magazine Stella.
by Hazel Wright
Trustee
The Family Court judges will have a new leader on 18th July 2018. Sir Andrew McFarlane is to be the new President, ie the leading judge for all family courts. When Sir Andrew was a barrister, his specialism was the law relating to children.
by Krisztina Glausius and Leezah Hertzmann, an extract from When Parents Separate: Getting it Right for the Children
A Guide for Parents, Tavistock Relationships
Some people believe that it is almost impossible to help parents in conflict develop a way of collaborative parenting together. This is not our experience. We find that most parents feel that despite the anger, loss and hurt that can follow the breakdown of their relationship, they still want to do their best for their children. This blog acts not so much a ‘How to’ guide, but more a ’What to avoid and why’, we explore what is important for children involved.
To celebrate the launch of our new parenting service Tavistock Relationships surveyed hundreds of couples with children who visited our social media pages. There were some interesting results - showing that today’s couples are acutely aware that their relationship affects their children.
Andrew Balfour
CEO - Tavistock Relationships
With life expectancy in the UK increasing, and the number of people aged over 65 set to increase by 51% between now and 2030, social care systems will increasingly encounter the kinds of difficulties which relationship support services are set up to address.
Honor Rhodes, OBE, Director of Strategy, Tavistock Relationships and Trustee of the Early Intervention Foundation
By Dr Sabah Khan, Clinical Psychologist & Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Retirement: A Period of both loss and possibility
Retirement is a fluid concept; a long and important life stage which presents couples with a series of changes as their working lives draw to a close.
By Erica Herrero-Martinez
Continuing our series of blogs to celebrate 70 years of helping couples, individuals and families.
By Susanna Abse
Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
Part of our 70th Anniversary blog series celebrating psychotherapy in the past, present and future:
By Joanna Harrison, Visiting Clinician
Part of our 70th Anniversary series of blogs.
Hazel Wright, trustee
Last November, we wrote about the need for reform of outdated divorce laws. Specifically we supported the proposal for so-called "no fault divorce" to be available after a period of six months' separation.
