Graham Hocking - Professional Counselling

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is a challenge. Many of us don't know how to maintain good relationships. The truth is relationships need to be nurtured and require work.

Dance me to your beauty
with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic
till I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch
and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
- Leonard Cohen

SELF-AWARENESS and YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

Counselling provides the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your relationships. In a safe and supportive environment, you will be encouraged to cultivate self-awareness that helps you understand more about who you are and why you experience life the way you do. From this position of greater self-understanding, you will be able to make choices that create a happier and healthier life for you and those around you.

You will explore topics such as emotions, understanding patterns in relationships, life goals, family influences, personality styles and dealing with conflict. You will also explore communication and relationship-building skills to deepen your trust and attachment bond with your partner.

Gain INSIGHT into:

• Recognising who you are as a individual and who you are in a relationship with others

• Understanding how your relationship expectations have formed and what you currently value in your life and in your relationships

• Different relationship and communication styles

• How to establish healthy and satisfying relationships

Develop SKILLS in:

• Communicating your needs assertively and respectfully

• Dealing with conflict

• Managing your emotions and understanding the emotions of others.

Enriching Your Relationships

Relationships can be exciting and great fun, but they usually require hard work as well!
Sessions are offered for couples or individuals based on the latest research on what makes relationships succeed or fail, allowing you the opportunity to review your relationship, to extend and deepen it, or if required, to undertake some necessary repairs.

Counselling can HELP you:

• Understand what makes people good at the art of intimate relating

• Understand how relationships disintegrate - even when you don't expect it

• Know how to strengthen your love and admiration for each other

• See clearly how your way of dealing with conflict may make it worse

• Find better ways of dealing with unsolved problems

• Have more strategies for heading off fights

• Know how to manage strong emotions more effectively

• Be more aware of your preferred "language of love".

Counselling can RENEW your Relationship if:

• You and your partner argue about the same old topics over and over

• You feel angry, misunderstood, resentful and hurt

• You would like to improve your relationship but it feels too difficult to do

• You or your partner have considered separation or divorce, yet you want your relationship to last

My aim is for you to have a Rewarding Counselling Experience.

By using a client-centered, empathic approach, and drawing on the latest international clinical research in relationship therapy approaches, I will fully support you in exploring how you can build and maintain the relationship of your dreams.

I am committed to inspiring you to discover and experience a satisfying and rewarding life, fulfilling personal relationships, along with optimal health and wellbeing.

You will find renewed hope! You will learn how to release old patterns and cycles of negative thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and to learn new, healthy ways of relating to your partner, which will lead you to experience a renewed, positive and powerful sense of Self .

You will learn how to become the major source of ongoing support and encouragement for yourself, and your life and relationships will begin to change in positive ways.