Therapy can provide a quiet and private place for you to discuss the difficulties and dilemmas you and a partner may have. People have often said to me that it feels safe to say things in the session, that they haven't been able to say elsewhere. Similarly, it can be possible in therapy sessions to feel properly heard by your partner, and to listen properly yourself.

You might come because:

• The relationship is going through a bad patch
• One or both of you wants to separate
• There's been violence
• One of you left
• You're adjusting to a new relationship
• There are step-parenting difficulties
• You can't resolve arguments
• The relationship isn't as good as it used to be
• You can't agree on how to bring up the children