Couples Therapy in Brixton
Seeing a psychotherapist or counsellor for couples therapy can be immensely helpful for navigating conflict, rebuilding trust, and offering healthier ways of relating. Many couples seek couples therapy at some point in their relationship for managing conflict and relationship transitions.
The purpose of couples therapy is to help couples identify factors leading to conflict, rebuild trust, and offer healthier ways of relating to each other. Couples therapy can help you resolve any insecure attachments and past relationship trauma - specifically those from primary carers - that are affecting your current relationships. More often than not, couples remain together after couples therapy. However, some couples choose to separate, and relationship therapy can help bring the relationship to a close in the healthiest way possible.
Relationship therapy can support those in any form of relationship with another person - for example siblings, or a parent and adult child. It is a useful approach for both romantic relationships and any two people wanting to work on their relationship.
Seeing a couples therapist at The Brixton Practice can be supportive, whether for short-term couples work, or for longer-term couples therapy. Training to be a psychotherapist encompasses working with couples. Some psychotherapy training leans more heavily into working with couples, although it’s not essential to complete separate training. However, some couples therapists would have completed additional specialist training around couples work. There are many different approaches to therapy, and we have couples therapists who work across different therapy approaches. From Gestalt therapy to humanistic therapy, we provide couples therapy services to our clients in Brixton - easily accessible from south London. We can provide online couples therapy appointments for our clients who cannot travel to Brixton or live further afield.
If you would like to book an appointment with a relationship therapist, you can complete our screening form or contact one of our couples therapists directly. You’ll find their details on their therapist profile.
What is Couples Therapy?
Couples Therapy is a form of therapy where you work two-to-one with a couples therapist to explore your thoughts, emotions and behaviours within your relationship. This can range from emotional conflicts between each other, to deeper behavioural issues that cause harm to your relationship. Our couples therapists have experience in a range of therapy techniques - from existential therapy to integrative therapy.
Couples counselling offers tools to help you both understand your thoughts and feelings on a deeper level, and to understand why you may behave towards each other in specific ways. This can improve self-awareness and provide couples with skills to support emotional regulation, communication styles, and provide a sense of agency over how you manage conflict. Our relationship therapy in London offers ways to support couples to live in uncertainty, tolerate vulnerability, and develop good communication skills needed for a relationship to thrive.
The Difference Between Couples Therapy, Low-Cost Couples Counselling, Couples Workshops, and Individual Therapy
Couples therapy - also known as relationship therapy - involves a therapist working with two people to help them improve their relationship and cope with relationship conflict better. The aim of relationship therapy is to help a couple identify what contributes to their challenges and conflicts - rebuilding trust and offering healthier ways of relating to each other. Couples therapy supports two people in any relationship, such as siblings. However, some relationship counsellors work primarily with couples in a romantic relationship.
Low-cost couples counselling is a therapy service for couples who cannot afford private relationship therapy. We aim to support couples at any stage of their relationship through accessible couples therapy. Our low-cost couples therapy is provided by qualified psychotherapists and counsellors who may be training in couples work. We provide affordable couples counselling at The Brixton Practice, helping couples to develop good communication skills and improved conflict resolution so your relationships can thrive.
At The Brixton Practice, we also offer Couples Workshops with Madeleine Reed. Her Re-Right Relationship Coaching is for couples who are looking to tune up their relational skills, rather than engage in traditional relationship therapy. These are coaching-based workshops offering practical therapeutic tools to apply to your relationship.
Individual psychotherapy and counselling is a one-to-one psychotherapy session between the therapist and client. It aims to help improve the causes and symptoms which impact your wellbeing. Individual psychotherapists and counsellors support people with a broad spectrum of mental health conditions and symptoms. Our psychotherapists at The Brixton Practice also train in a range of therapy approaches - from humanistic therapy to EMDR therapy.
How Couples Therapy Can Support You
The aim of couples therapy is to help couples improve their relationship and cope better with conflict. Couples therapy offers a safe and supportive environment for couples to discuss and work through challenging emotions and dynamics. If you are experiencing relationship conflict, communication breakdown, or behaviours damaging your relationship such as withdrawal, couples counselling can help you to work through these - offering healthier ways of relating to each other.
At The Brixton Practice, our team of couples therapists offer tools to help support emotional regulation and relationship communication. Challenging relationship dynamics can put a real strain on individuals within a couple, and at times you need support to help resolve conflict. Active listening is a form of medicine both within the relationship and within the therapeutic relationship. Our relationship therapists can help you find ways for improved communication, allowing couples to tolerate vulnerability and difficult feelings. If you are looking for support in your relationship, couples counselling can be beneficial.
What Challenges Relationship Therapy Can Help With
Taking the step towards couples therapy can be supportive and transformative for your relationship. Relationship therapy can help couples experiencing communication problems, destructive relationship dynamics, sexual stagnation, infidelity, and it can support ethical polyamory. Therapy will bring up each individual’s personal challenges within the relationship, and how this impacts their partner - from anxiety and depression to addiction.
By understanding each other’s childhood traumas, learned behaviours and patterns, a couple is supported to understand how each other’s history shapes how they relate to one another. Through our radically-relational approach at The Brixton Practice, we guide couples to release destructive relational patterns, offering new ways of relating to each other and the world. This involves active listening, curiosity, and a willingness to be vulnerable.
What to Expect in Couples Therapy
At the initial consultation for couples therapy, you may both like to discuss what your couples therapy goals are. This is an opportunity to ask any questions you may have about starting relationship therapy. The couples therapist will assess whether couples therapy is suitable for you both, and how to move forward. During the initial consultation, it is your role as a couple to decide whether you feel comfortable working with your therapist. A strong and healing therapeutic relationship is one where each individual within the couple feels safe to be vulnerable, to talk, and be challenged to take accountability for their role in the dynamic.
Throughout couples therapy, difficult feelings and emotions may rise to the surface. Your therapist can help you work through these emotions, which will help you to relate in new ways to one another outside of the therapeutic space. Our couples counsellors help couples to work through their trauma and relational complexes, so they are better able to tolerate vulnerability and find ways to cope with conflict better.
How The Brixton Practice Can Support Couples
Our couples therapists at The Brixton Practice are dedicated to supporting couples on their journey through therapy, and we understand that taking the steps to start therapy can feel vulnerable. When booking with us, we can help you to find a couples psychotherapist or counsellor that is a good match for both your needs, as well as somebody you feel confident working with. Our radically-relational approach to couples therapy allows for a meeting of professionalism and humanness in the therapeutic space. We offer couples therapy in-person in central Brixton, which you can access from other south London locations. If you cannot attend in-person couples therapy, we offer online appointments.
Couples Therapists at The Brixton Practice
We have committed couples therapists at The Brixton Practice in London, who are highly skilled at supporting couples to move through their relationship challenges. Our couples therapy in Brixton offers a variety of psychotherapy approaches to suit your needs as a couple - from humanistic therapists to integrative therapists. All of our relationship therapists have been carefully chosen and vetted before joining our team.
Why Choose The Brixton Practice for Couples Therapy?
The Brixton Practice was founded by Nathan Claxton with the goal to provide supportive and outstanding radically-relational therapy services in London. As the practice has grown, he now has a team of highly skilled couples therapists - providing relationship therapy to couples in Brixton and the surrounding areas.
Our expert team of couples therapists bring a range of experience to the practice, and all are professionally trained and registered with the appropriate professional governing bodies. All of our couples therapists at The Brixton Practice are fully insured. Through our radically-relational couples therapy approach, we focus on the importance of the therapeutic relationship in the process of relationship change.
Interested in booking a session?
Please head over to our contact page and fill out our booking form.
Alternatively you can contact one of our therapists directly.