"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
Transform Your Relationships with Couples Therapy
Couples Therapy offers you the opportunity to experience an entirely new way of relating to those around you. Whether you're a couple, an individual having relational difficulties, family members, friends, or colleagues, Couples Therapy provides a safe and confidential space to achieve deeper understandings and connections. I draw on a range of approaches so that I can provide you with an integrative, practical approach tailored to your specific circumstances.Transform The Way You Relate
As we move through life, each of us picks up and carries stories along the way. Stories about who we are, our worthiness, how the outside world receives us, how we need to adapt, and much, much more.
We carry these stories into our interactions and relationships, and there they sit between us, interacting with eachother, creating challenging new stories, and standing in the way of our achieving the experience of understanding and connection.
In the course of a session, I will hold a space for you to bring your full presence and consciousness. To engage with a full heart, to see with new eyes, to listen with new ears, and to speak with a new voice.
We will identify and honour the stories, and become richly acquainted oneanother’s unique culture, language, and experience of the world. In doing so, these things become no longer obstacles but the bridges that take you deeper in understanding and connection.
Whatever your circumstances and whatever the nature of your relationship, couples therapy with Joe Summerfield will help you discover an entirely new way of relating to yourself and to eachother.
The types of relational circumstances that might benefit from therapy include:
Deepening a strong connection
Enjoy deeper connection and greater harmony in your relationship, as well as growth as individuals.
Preparing for marriage
Set the foundations for a healthy lifelong partnership of intimacy, interdepenence, and growth.
Healing after an affair
An affair necessarily marks the end of a relationship. Will your next relationship be together?
Finding closure after a divorce
Bring consciousness to your de-coupling and go separate ways empowered by compassion.
Navigating parenthood
Gain support in tending to your intimate connection. It will never be more important - nor feel more difficult.
Improving connection with family, friends, or colleagues
Open and clear that which causes pain or comes in the way of understanding and connection.
Support Tailored to Your Needs
I tailor each Couples Therapy session for the couple or individual involved, drawing on a range of approaches to support self-awareness, communication, empathy, and mutual understanding.
Whether through longer intensives or regular 60-minute sessions, my intention is to support you not just in identifying the patterns and dynamics alive in the relationship, but also to provide you with practical tools for dissolving conflict and creating bridges with your partner. Embark on this journey to discover…
The special spark or connection in your relationship.
Practical tools for dissolving conflict.
How to REALLY be there for your partner.
New depth and passion in your connection.
How to create bridges with someone with whom connection has been lost or broken.
Ready to transform your relationship? Book your Couples Therapy session today and take the first step towards a more fulfilling and harmonious relationship.
What Do Clients Say?
Joe offers a beautifully unique warm safe space by simply being in his presence. His ability to listen and get to the source of what is troubling is swift, offering simple timely techniques into daily life offering immediate results. it is an honour to spend time with him.
I have had the privilege of working with Joe multiple times, and he consistently proves himself to be an exceptional guide and facilitator. Joe possesses a rare combination of keen intuition, deep empathy, and the ability to create a safe space that allows you to explore your innermost thoughts and feelings. His profound insights and gentle questioning skillfully lead you to the core of the matter without imposing his views. Joe's profound expertise is evident in how he witnesses your journey with utmost presence, leaving you feeling truly seen, supported, and empowered to take charge of your own growth and progress.
Joe is a wonderful therapist and a skilful listener who succeeds at creating a compassionate and non-judgemental space for you to address issues that are troubling you and work together with you to understand better and become more aware of your states of mind or patterns of behaviour. Highly recommended.
Joe offers an astoundingly safe, honest and nurturing space through his coaching sessions. His integrity, intelligence and care has truly enabled me to develop a compassionate understanding about the relationship I hold with myself and those around me. Joe's gentle and subtle approach to experiencing life and all that it brings has enabled me to equip myself with much more appropriate, healthy and necessarily nurturing inner resources. In every moment I continue to clear so many mental, physical and spiritual blockages that I never thought would be attainable.
My husband and I had a truly excellent experience with Joe. We both felt very comfortable and relaxed and with his help we were able to resolve some issues that had been causing difficulties for many years. It has made a huge difference in our household. Joe is very skilled and knwledgeable and I would recommend him to anyone.