Healthy relationships are central to your overall wellbeing and connectedness. We can support you to enhance relationships with partners, family, friends, and work colleagues.
The most significant relationship we have in our lifetime is with ourselves. Like every relationship, getting to know oneself is a dynamic, ever-fluid, changing, wondrous experience. We never stop learning and growing because of our emotional, mental, and physical experiences. It is part of life’s rich tapestry that we invite others into relationship – friendships, intimate relationships, workplace friendships, relationships based on hobbies or common interests – when we’re curious about ourselves and others we have the capacity to form new relationships at every stage of our lives.
So, what happens when we find ourselves repeating painful patterns in some of these relationships? How do some of us find ourselves back where we started regardless of how we try and break the cycle. A useful starting point is to look at our own attachment style and understand how that affects our needs to give and take. This starts early with our caregivers.
Mangrove House also offers couples counselling where your counsellor can work to uncover the patterns that might be getting in the way of forming healthy, happy relationships.
Whether individually or as a couple, working with your counsellor can examine how you relate to self and to others and how you can shift these ways to establish and maintain healthy relationships.