How counselling supports couples with young families

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Last November, we wrote about the need for reform of outdated divorce laws.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.

Tavistock Relationships is 70 years young this year. Here is why the work that the organisation has develped and evolved to help couples, familes and children is as relevant today as ever.

 CEO Andrew Balfour 

Why online therapy (or ‘Skype Counselling’) is safe secure and valuable for clients

David Smith [name changed for anonymity purposes] trained with Tavistock Relationships and has been working as a psychotherapy counsellor for over five years. He provides online psychotherapy sessions for Tavistock Relationships having received specialist training in the medium. 

The impact of parental alienation on children.

Damian McCann.

Head of Development & Learning, Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist & Clinical Lecturer

At Tavistock Relationships, we believe that the quality of our couple relationships profoundly affects how we feel about ourselves and has material and measurable consequences for our lives and those around us, affecting the emotional, cognitive and physical development of our children. Indeed, the Early Intervention Foundation places particular emphasis on how parents communicate and how they relate to each other as key factors in good outcomes. Essentially, children desire a strong and healthy relationship with both parents.

Forcing blame on separating couples has a negative impact on the whole family process of ending a marriage 

Andrew Balfour

Research published by the Nuffield Foundation in October this year shows what practitioners working with individuals and couples have long known to be the case: our divorce laws are out of date and incompatible with a modern family justice system which seeks to reduce conflict between couples who are divorcing; not amplify this – as the current law does. 

How online counselling can benefit the whole family.

Eve Ashley

Couple Psychotherapist at Tavistock Relationships

The relationship we have with our parents plays a unique part in the development of each of us, and the continuity of our lives through the generations.  Stories about our relationship with our parents, and the relationship they had together, begin before we were born, and will continue after we have died.

New family law rules to help protect children exposed to domestic abuse

Hazel Wright

Family law solicitor and mediator & Trustee of Tavistock Relationships

There is clear evidence that children are adversely affected if they are involved in domestic abuse [1].

Why online counselling works to help couples, using the latest technology.

Author:

John Fenna, Head of Marketing & Communications

When you sign up to an appointment for online counselling or psychotherapy, one of the things you will want to know is that the technology is user-friendly. This is a common question, and it is a vital issue for people considering online therapy. We all know that counselling and therapy can be challenging, and the last thing we want is to find ourselves struggling to get the technology to work!

Today sees the publication of a short but potentially influential document entitled a ‘Manifesto to Strengthen Families’ from a group of Conservative MPs.

Read our view.

Author: Richard Meier, Policy & Communications Manager, Tavistock Relationships

Do men and women have different values? 

Thoughts on what 'cheating' in a relationship means

(From a conversation on BBC Radio London)

Online counselling, why webcam therapy can reach and help couples

Author: 
Pierre Cachia, senior couple psychotherapist and counselling psychologist currently leading the development of online therapy services at Tavistock Relationships.

Our unique counselling and psychotherapy approach, developed over 70 years, from the Tavistock Clinic to today.

Clinical Director Limor Abramov Q & A: How we help couples; What is unique about Tavistock Relationship’s clinical services?

Forgiveness: Its meaning and the family process

Honor Rhodes, OBE, CQSW

For many people their first encounters with the idea of forgiveness come from religious observances. For devout Christians there is a double injunction contained in the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Forgive us our trespasses and those who trespass against us.’ There is a thought missing here.

Couple therapy and the role of the parent and child in relationships

Honor Rhodes OBE – Tavistock Relationships / Trustee Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), delivered at the No Boundaries event in Hull March 2017

Even when sex is enjoyable for both partners? And how can psychosexual therapy help?

A blog post by Marian O’Connor, Head of Professional Development and Training

Why Psychosexual therapy? Or Sex Therapy as it is often called.

A video story of how couple therapy can provide support

Tavistock Relationships’ first online therapy service has had a successful launch

Couple Therapy - a sign of health or admitting defeat?

By Krisztina Glausius

Head of Clinical Services

 ‘April is the cruelest month but January is often felt to follow not too far behind in terms of unhappiness and general accumulated misery. Start- of- the year woes can be both caused by, and resulting from unhappy relationships or from isolation and loneliness.