Do you experience any emotional distance between you and your partner?Do you feel that you don’t connect with each other anymore the way you used to?Do you find that your conversations have dried up and has become transactional?Do you want …

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Love is not just a word or feeling. Love in action, needs to be seen, felt and received by your partner. In the last 10 years that I have been practicing as a couple therapist, this is one of the …

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Emotional intimacy is a significant requirement for a relationship to flourish. As a couple therapist, one of the common issues that couples come into therapy with is finding their emotional connection low or lost or deteriorated. In couple therapy, the …

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As a couple therapist / relationship counsellor I often see couples facing challenges with the level of intimacy that they seek with their partner. Many come in to therapy frustrated and disappointed about their relationship with escalating conflicts and finding …

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When clients come in for relationship therapy / couple therapy I usually tell them that a relationship is built on four pillars – that is commitment, trust, respect and communication. And somewhere these pillars are also interconnected, that when any …

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Conflicts are a normal part of any relationship. Especially among partners conflicts could be dealt with in a healthy manner with the intent of resolving the underlying issue. And when conflicts are resolved both with respect to the issue at …

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When a couple come for counselling, they may come with a current crisis to be addressed or they might have many piled up and unresolved issues that have occurred over a period of time throughout their relationship.  Of course you …

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