Relationship Coaching
My approach to relationship coaching is to focus on positive change and my style is intuitive, supportive and practical.
Through my own and others’ experiences, I have seen many relationship interventions, such as marriage guidance counselling or professional mediation services, focus on fixing the presenting relationship problems, rather than on supporting the relationship to develop so that individuals can learn how to either prevent the problems or deal with them successfully themselves.
Whether you are in an intimate relationship, have broader family concerns or are challenged by someone at work, I can offer you relationship support.
Improving the Relationship
Part of my intention as a relationship coach, is to support all individuals in the relationship to increase their emotional intelligence, in order to improve the relationship.
Becoming more aware of what is going on inside ourselves and being able to manage those feelings and emotions helps us be more able to choose how to respond, rather than simply react. This emotional intelligence helps us improve our relationships and make them stronger - whether they are personal or professional.
Relationship Support
With some marriage counselling techniques, there is also a tendency to see relationship clients purely as two individuals. When I coach a relationship, not only is my focus on the individuals, it is also on the relationship itself, almost as if it is an additional client. Like the conductor of an orchestra, I listen to the individuals in the context of the whole relationship. Individuals may play well alone, but in relationship, like an orchestra, they also need to be in harmony with each other. I guide each person to develop awareness, understanding and consideration of the other, in order to create harmony. This is sometimes done separately (one-to-one), with each person in the relationship, as well as all of us working together.
Tools to Improve your Relationship
You will already have many skills so we will work on maximising them and if appropriate, I will make suggestions and offer you my advice on other options.
In addition, if necessary, I will give each of you tools
to use to
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- explicitly design
your relationship
- minimize
conflicts
- become more
effective
- simply expand the realm of an already good
relationship
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With my relationship support and advice you will learn to deal with obstacles and together we will look at options for moving the relationship forward.
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