LGBTQ+ Relationship Counselling (Est. 2010)

Relationship counselling is the service to choose when LGBTQ+ partners want help to untangle complicated, unhappy relationship behaviour. Whether a gay male couple, a lesbian couple, a transgender couple, a throuple, or a polycule, all can make use of this approach to relationship counselling.

So much more than just another ally!

It can be short-term (tackling a specific goal) or a longer journey of therapy work and self-exploration combined. At first, it might not be clear what your counselling experience will be like, but as the sessions progress, we begin to develop a path together that helps you and your partner(s) become autonomous with your own ideas and resolutions.

This is not “marriage guidance“ (a very old term!). Counsellor Dean offers a more effective relationship solution for LGBTQ+ partners-in-conflict (so there’s no: “here’s how to do things ‘right’!” from the counsellor). It’s a proven, effective, therapeutic approach that you can learn to use.

You may already have a good idea of what you want to work at in relationship counselling. You now need to trust Dean as your counsellor (along with trusting your partner(s), and the counselling process).

You’ll want to learn how relationship counselling can help you deal with and stay safe from (sometimes) very serious, honest, and upsetting topics. You’ll want to discover how you might make use of counselling (not necessarily how others use it; your needs will be distinct from theirs). You will want the therapy process to evolve into one that is tailored to your own relationship’s needs. You’ll want to know that you can use this process at home, too.

It doesn’t matter how much experience Dean has in assisting other lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, fluid, and asexual struggling partners; it’s about the trust that grows from the bespoke approach involved with your counselling work with Dean.

How Our Counselling Work Develops

I will not try to explain in detail how a counselling process develops. I do want you to know that the working relationship that we will develop will be unique to the work that we have to do together. Our therapeutic alliance will be one where we all have a say, contribute ideas, and figure things out together to benefit your particular relationship style.

This is not a prescriptive process (you describe your problems, and the counsellor tells you what to do). Honestly, no therapist has a right to prescribe: “here’s how you do things correctly”. Instead, bespoke relationship therapy becomes a safe place where we look at what’s not working and consider substitutions that could work better.

This is the kind of bespoke process you will want to experience firsthand; to see and feel that it’s maturing sufficiently to handle the work we have ahead of us.

This is how we will proceed: in a clear, trusting, bespoke alliance that takes the best of what you have and rebuilds the worst of it into the kind of healthy relationship that you want… together.

Video Conferencing Therapy: the right solution for you that you’d forgotten all about!

Even in terms of geographic locations, he may be many miles away from your hometown, but he can be right there on your computer, laptop, or smartphone every week.

Why Video Counselling Works.

Why didn’t you consider video counselling? I’ll bet that because it’s been a few years since we were all required to use video technology (in order to stay in our homes). You hadn’t considered that the medium remains the preferred option in a number of significant circumstances. Let’s take a look why…

1. Convenience and Accessibility: Offers partners the flexibility to receive counselling from the safety and/or comfort of their home. There’s no requirement to travel to a therapist’s office. This is particularly helpful when one or both of you are away from your partner during the week for work or travel. You can call in remotely (from your office, hotel room, or even a quiet park bench) to meet with your partner and counsellor.

2. Cost-Effectiveness: Regularly more affordable than in-person therapy (even before costs of commuting, parking, and childcare). If you’re living in a major city (Brighton, Edinburgh, London, Liverpool, Manchester), then remote video counselling won’t attract a high pricing structure, regional weighting, or income supplement as counsellors working from your home town.