As a therapist, I am seeing first-hand the distressing impact of lockdown on couple relationships. Many were greatly impacted by the first 2-week stint, however, the recent extension of restrictions and the increasing infection cases has created greater anxiety and even depression. This is all made worse as there is…
When the coronavirus pandemic began and quickly spread across regions of the world, our country’s leaders determined it best to firmly close our Australian borders to prevent the escalation of the virus and to keep us safe. This firm border policy has earned us the nickname “Fortress Australia”. The difficulty…
For many decades people have been looking for the perfect book to help solve their couple conflict or they seek regular help from a couple’s therapist in a consulting room, to stop their fights and to improve their ability to communicate as a couple. The problem here is that books…
Trust is essential in couple relationships as much of our lives together rely on trusting our partner emotionally, physically, financially and practically. Broken trust can feel like a betrayal and can take time to heal. The difficulty for couples is that there is no universal definition of what constitutes a…
We all have heard the word ego and many of us use it in conversation but what is the ego and how can it hurt or even destroy our relationships? What is the ego? Well simply speaking the ego is a part of the mind that is concerned with “me”,…
We all want our couple relationship to be healthy and happy. The problem is we don’t always know or understand why it isn’t, which means we also don’t know how to improve our relationship. There is something partners need that is often not well enough developed to solve this problem…
There are so many relationships that could be much healthier and happier if partners learnt how to resolve their conflict and improve their communication. As a therapist, I can tell you that no relationship can be healthy and develop throughout life without good communication. Typically, when we first date someone…