What signs professionals offering couples therapy should look for, in order to help.

By Marian O'Connor, Relationship Therapist and Head of Training, Psychosexual Therapy, at Tavistock Relationships

These are pressured times, marriage counselling or couple therapy shouldn't be seen as a last resort for families.

By Joanna Harrison, Visiting Clinician

Interview with our parenting and relationship expert who is part of the offer FREE support for Londoners in 7 boroughs.

Together or separated couples in Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Croydon, Brent and Lambeth (as well as others in the northern Home Counties) can access free relationship and parenting support. John Fenna, of Tavistock Relationships, spoke with Alice Hargreaves, Relationship & Parenting Practitioner working on Tavistock Relationships’ ‘Building Relationships for Stronger Families’ programme, to gather some tips for parenting during lock down.

Alice Hargreaves, Relationship & Parenting Practitioner with Tavistock Relationships

Sarah Ingram leads the ‘Building Relationships for Stronger Families’ programme for Tavistock Relationships. Here she blogs about what we can learn from China as we face more weeks of uncertainty.

Sarah Ingram, Lead, Building Relationships for Stronger Families with Tavistock Relationships

Kate Thompson - a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, faculty staff member and clinical lecturer at Tavistock Relationships. 

In these times couples therapy has moved online to make us feel there is someone outside who can help.

An hour of online couples therapy can help couples look outside of their troubles.

By Marian O'Connor, Relationship Therapist and Head of Training, Psychosexual Therapy, at Tavistock Relationships

Why our FREE parenting and relationship offer is so helpful for Londoners in 7 boroughs.

Together or separated couples in Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Croydon, Brent and Lambeth can access free relationship and parenting support currently, here we explain why seeking help to reduce arguments with your partner can improve not only your wellbeing, but your children's.

Alice Hargreaves, Relationship & Parenting Practitioner with Tavistock Relationships

John Fenna - summarises from a couple counselling perspective, taken from an interview given on BBC Radio with one of our psychotherapists. 

Post festive relationship blues – how and why this occurs and what you can do.

By Naomi Mwamba, Family and Parenting Practitioner, Reducing Parental Conflict Programme

Making a commitment choice, the value of reflection and maybe even relationship counselling.

By Naomi Mwamba, Family and Parenting Practitioner, Reducing Parental Conflict Programme
 

What a Couples Therapy expert says about working out a partner who is right for you.

By Naomi Mwamba, Family and Parenting Practitioner, Reducing Parental Conflict Programme

Tavistock Relationships’ Naomi Mwamba lists aspects of couple commitment that you may want to give some thought to, before you say ‘I do’.

Kate Thompson - a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist, faculty staff member and clinical lecturer at Tavistock Relationships. 

It takes two to tango, in couples therapy we see the connection between relatonships and dancing.

Our experience also shows that specialist teacher training is required, as relationship issues are a key concern for children

By John Fenna

From September 2020, RSE will be compulsory in secondary schools and Relationship Education will be compulsory in all primary schools. The aim is to put in place the building blocks needed for positive and safe relationships of all kinds.

How we are using couples therapy approaches, along with funded programmes to help parents and children

By Honor Rhodes

I am interested in what it takes to raise a confident, kind, courageous child, capable of loving and being loved, how hard can that be?

Can you turn your holiday romance into a lasting relationship?

Writes John Fenna of Tavistock Relationships

Love Island has returned to our screens, summer holidays are nearly upon us and for many the prospect of a holiday romance is in the air. Unfortunately, despite the intensity of these sun-kissed relationships, very few last.

Why couples therapy has such an important role in physical as well as mental health support

By Andrew Balfour, CEO of Tavistock Relationships

On 7th May 2019 we moved from our Warren Street site to new premises on Hallam Street:

Hallam House, 56-60 Hallam St. W1W 6JL.

How our approach to the mind helps with problems with intimacy in a relationship.

By Marian O'Connor

Sex therapy or psychosexual therapy –what is the difference?

How can I help my children after divorce or separation?

by Krisztina Glausius and Leezah Hertzmann,  an extract from When Parents Separate: Getting it Right for the Children
A Guide for Parents, Tavistock Relationships

How our Psychosexual therapy expertise helps with female desire in mid life and beyond 

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.