Last time, anxiety had control! This time, I knew she was coming and I had control. Infact, I actually believe she helped me have a better experience.

Considering marriage, already married, or experiencing change within your marriage? There are frequently BIG conversations to have. Are you confident to have them and stay present until you understand each other or reach resolution? Relationship Counselling will help reduce conflict and increase connection. In the next blog I will share some tips to start a BIG conversation. These are the topics to confront.

After an affair, does life get back to normal? Does time heal the wound? Is it always in the back of your mind? Stage 3 is the consolidation stage. Consolidating trust, vulnerability, acceptance, understanding of your partner. Both people are active in this stage.

Rebuilding After Affairs - Part 2

Repair is happening in part 1 (Atonement), now rebuild is happening in part 2 (Attunement). This is where hope can build, as together you work toward and visualise a new marriage. Trust and connection increases to offer clarity, safety and less fear of vulnerability.

Rebuilding after Affairs - Part 1

Understanding there can be structure to the overwhelming, painful, confusing darkness of emotions you may feel after discovery of an affair, can help you take one day at a time to regain balance, control and hope.

Strengthening Relationships to Survive Christmas - focus on what you do well and reach out for Relationship Counselling with New View Counselling to recover from the pressures of the festive season if it becomes a challenge or challenges seem unsolvable.

Relationships need protecting when teenagers are navigating challenges and neural growth. Protect your relationship with Relationship Counselling to better understand each other and love stronger together.

Everything is BIG about FIFO! Especially the impact on your relationship. It is a different connection, requiring different commitments. Here are 5 things to get better at if FIFO life is going to work.

Burnt out or overwhelmed or tired of too many things to do? Balancing all areas of life can be tricky and recognising things are not working for you often shows up through emotion - anger, frustration, irritation. Recognising things need to change is the first step toward change - well done!

Am I a People Pleaser - and what is wrong with that? Nothing, if it feels good and there is a balance of your needs as well as other people’s needs. Identifying when your needs are being left out is the beginning to identifying how to change it.

Let’s shine a light on Counselling! Counsellors are more than qualified with knowledge, training and experience to support your psychological, social, emotional and spiritual needs.

When someone says they are burnt out, we need to listen. The fact that they have said it means they have found the strength and courage to put their hand up and ask for help. They have already been trying, too hard, for too long - if they are telling you, they have chosen you.

Not happy at home but worried Relationship Counselling will be worse… or not help at all? Here I reduce a few fears about what can be achieved when you both seek support. Consider me a ‘facilitator of reconnection’. You loved and were attracted to each other once, we just need to work together to reignite it again.

You do not need to be a Neuroscientist to recognise Neurochemical imbalances. You are a clever Mumma or Dadda and you can sense something is not right.

7 Tests of Trust. Relationship Counselling can be a safe place to address these indicators of trust when you are feeling concerned or have had your heart broken and trust destroyed. Marriage counselling can occur before the big day, or any day after - you are building a life together and avoiding relationship problems is easier than recovering from them.

Parenting challenges can be the very reason you might seek relationship counselling. If you have relationship problems, you can bet your kids are learning from you. Emotional intelligence is the best gift you can give your sons and daughters. Boys especially feel big feelings and display bigger behaviours. Understanding how to navigate their emotions will create change in your home and you will wish you had couples therapy earlier - if even to be on the same page for your approach to tomorrows challenge.

Contempt will not be tolerated in a court room so why tolerate it in relationships? The impact creates isolation and disconnect and without support or change, can be a predictor of divorce. Ultimately, one person believes they are superior while the other is left feeling completely broken. Both are unsafe identities and do not belong in respectful relationships.