Andrea Sheehy's Counselling Blog

Why every relationship needs empathy

andrea — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:58:38 +0000

You’ve probably heard of empathy. If you haven’t you almost certainly will if you’re scanning the Internet researching counselling or are looking for a counsellor. It’s a topic that is written about quite a lot, especially in the counselling world. The ability to listen empathically is a crucial tool in every counsellor’s tool-kit. If you [...]

Why every relationship needs empathy is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

How to help your relationship survive a new baby

andrea — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:46:25 +0000

Like a lot of people, I sometimes watch Channel 4′s observational documentary series One Born Every Minute which shows the day to day activity of a labour ward. I’m always struck by the fact that no matter how many programs you watch, how many anti-natal classes you attend nothing – but nothing – prepares you [...]

How to help your relationship survive a new baby is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

Coping with the Fallout from an Emotional Affair

andrea — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:53:12 +0000

“She keeps talking about this guy at work, and I’m feeling really jealous“ “After several years of marriage, we’ve grown apart. I’m sure he’s seeing someone, and I feel so alone“ “I found out my partner is talking to this woman online; he says it’s not sexual but it makes me feel so wretched“ “If [...]

Coping with the Fallout from an Emotional Affair is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

Couples Take Note: Valentine’s Day could be bad for your relationship!

andrea — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:45:56 +0000

If you are in a relationship right now, it is almost impossible not to feel the pressure to conform as St. Valentines Day approaches. Flowers, chocolates, and a candlelit meal can feel obligatory and are often sold to us by a media obsessed with perfection as the ideal way to a perfect relationship. I’m not [...]

Couples Take Note: Valentine’s Day could be bad for your relationship! is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

5 Ways To Put the Zing Back into Your Relationship Using Mindfulness

andrea — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:50:29 +0000

Although mindfulness has been around for thousands of years, it is only relatively recently that it has been adopted by western psychotherapists, counsellors and other mental health practitioners for issues such as stress, anxiety, and depression. The results are good. Even more promising is that recently mindfulness has also been shown as an effective approach [...]

5 Ways To Put the Zing Back into Your Relationship Using Mindfulness is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

Christmas Kill or Cure Part 2: improving communications

andrea — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:20:35 +0000

Improve how you communicate and develop intimacy OK, so most of us have the best of intentions. However, turning all those good intentions into a reality is something else. We might hope, want, or even pray our relationship will improve, but instead we find ourselves easily slipping into the same old arguments, repeating the same [...]

Christmas Kill or Cure Part 2: improving communications is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

Christmas: kill or cure for your relationship?

andrea — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:43:45 +0000

Minimise your Christmas stress levels, and grow and develop your relationship We had a big turning-on-the-Christmas-lights celebration in Hinckley over the weekend; there were fireworks and fair-ground rides and, of course, the lights themselves. The build-up and all the hype of the Christmas holiday season has definitely started! Christmas can be a welcome break from [...]

Christmas: kill or cure for your relationship? is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

Counselling for Toads

andrea — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:50:00 +0000

While I know reading books is not every-one’s cup of tea, I do get asked fairly frequently if I can recommend a book about counselling or about relationships. So now and again on this blog I’ve decided to review a book which you might find helpful. I feel I need to say that I don’t [...]

Counselling for Toads is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

How to Cope When Your Relationship Ends

andrea — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:46:52 +0000

According to many family solicitors, January is a month that many couples decide to separate or divorce. There are of course many reasons for this. Often underlying relationship issues, that have been building up over a long time, crack under under the extra strain of Christmas. Even at the eleventh hour, talking things through with [...]

How to Cope When Your Relationship Ends is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog

Here Are Seven Ideas to Help You Create a Healthy Relationship

andrea — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:23:46 +0000

Being in a healthy relationship is good for us. If we are communicating well with our partner, feel respected, listened to and cared for, then we instinctively feel everything is great in our world. When it stops working our happiness and health are both badly affected. Here are a few suggestions and ideas to help [...]

Here Are Seven Ideas to Help You Create a Healthy Relationship is a post from: Andrea Sheehy's Couple Counselling Blog