Dealing with Couples Conflict Providing dealing with couples conflict at Counselling in Melbourne, many couples face difficulties when raising issues with each other, because it will result in couple conflict. Rather than addressing concerns with a spouse, the issue becomes shelved because it raises anxiety to bring it up, due to the anticipated reaction from their partner.

Why relationship co-dependency is destructive?                                                                               Many individuals seek counselling in Melbourne for relationship co-dependency issues since they cannot cope on their own without a relationship, so they often do anything to stay in the relationship, such as avoid expressing their own needs, avoiding conflict  or  unable to leave toxic relationships.

       Is it worth saving your relationship  Is it worth saving your relationship, find out how with  couples counselling. In marriage counselling Melboune, some couples are unsure of whether or not they are well suited to each other.  They may begin a relationship, without taking the time to get to know a new partner, […]

How your past can sabotage your relationship Are  you constantly finding you’re have same the reactions to each relationship? Somehow you end up feeling the same way? Do you constantly feel rejected, because you’re looking into things that are not there and creating scenarios in your head, so that you push your partner away, when they […]

 Depressive Moods and Melancholy Those with with depressive moods say they feel blue, feel flat,  bleak, dull, melancholy,  miserable and have no motivation for life. Life may feel lifeless, like gloom or hopeless  with distress or worry. Many feel exhausted, with a lack of passion in activities. Often these individuals have internalised negative beliefs about themselves. Depression can also be anger […]

Finding Psychoanalytic Counsellors in Melbourne Some counsellors offer psychotherapy that provides instant solutions as a form of supportive counselling, but it does not often deal with the underlying issues and resolve them at a deeper intra-psychic level. Trained in the psychoanalytic Masterson approach,  our counselling Melbourne services facilities the individual to build ego strength to cope, manage feelings, […]

Overcome defensive coping mechanisms Defensive coping mechanisms are the ways individuals self-medicate when they cannot resolve the issues on their own. Individuals can temporally feel better by having alcohol, an affair or lash out in anger, since it escapes the underlying pain and offers them instant relief. But the emotions become further hidden behind defensive mechanisms, acting out and […]

Resolve Emotional Distress Deep Inside Yourself  Often people enter couples therapy or psychotherapy when certain events trigger unwanted feelings deep within themselves, so the individual develops unhealthy coping mechanisms in order to escape the pain. When we encounter emotional distress,  it alerts us to unresolved aspects within the ‘self’, which  need  to be worked through, so  that the […]

Improving Couple Communication   Communication gets lost when couples do not understand how they each feel or what they’re to express to each other. In order to express themselves they get caught in defensive reactions, when protecting themselves from underling feelings that get triggered by each other.  Couples lose grip  on themselves and as they […]

Coping and Managing stress  Why do many struggle with coping and managing stress? When unmanageable  stress occurs,  it shows  us that  areas within the ‘self’ requires attention. Sometimes the way we cope and manage stress, reflects the capacity within the ‘self’. How strong we are in coping and managing stressful events depends on the level of functioning within the self. […]