 Many of the personal problems we face can arise in the context of our relationships and family background. The Grove offers sessions for couples, adolescents and families to help work through their difficulties and find more fulfilling ways of relating to each other.
Couple therapy
If you want to talk about how you can improve your current relationship, or manage a separation, you may find it useful to talk to one of our couple therapists. Often, the focus can be on discovering whether or not your relationship has a future.
Who is welcome?
 The Grove’s central London counsellors respect differences of culture, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. You are welcome whether you are married, living together, separated, divorced or single and whatever your sexual orientation or identity.
What does couple therapy entail?
Couple counselling or psychotherapy can help you take time to see your relationship from a fresh perspective. You can discuss your feelings, values and expectations, and your therapist may work with you on how to communicate more clearly. You and your partner have an opportunity to explore with your therapist your roles, desires and behaviour, to think about what you want from your relationship and what you can do to change your situation for the better. It also gives you the space to explore, in confidence, complex or difficult issues, including areas of less obvious tension or conflict, and your sexual relationship.
Staying together or separating?
Couple sessions can help you decide if you wish to maintain your relationship. However, if you decide to separate, these sessions can support you in managing an ending.
Family therapy
How can family therapy help?
 The stress and strains of everyday life, together with the tensions that each member may contribute, can put families under immense pressure. Likewise, personal problems can be made worse by a stressful family life, and it can be a challenge to the family group when an individual family member is going through a process of personal change. Change of any kind can be challenging to how a family works.
Where tensions continue or get worse, it can be beneficial to seek professional help in order to find a way through. You can see our counsellor individually, as a small group or as a whole family together.
Our therapist will remain objective and is specially trained to facilitate families in exploring and overcoming their difficulties through better communication and changing detrimental patterns of behaviour.
The impact of separation and divorce
The Grove’s counsellors and therapists can also support you and your children through a divorce or separation, when all members of the family are affected and strong emotions or tensions can exist – including blended or extended families.
Adolescent therapy
How can adolescent therapy help?
Adolescence is a developmental phase and a period of change that is of critical importance. How this period of upheaval is navigated can have implications for the rest of an individual’s life.
By working with an experienced adolescent therapist, the young person can describe and explore problematic areas such as conflict within the family, behavioural difficulties, stress or anxiety, feeling suicidal, sexual feelings, social skills and relating to other people. Adolescent counselling aims to engage with the problems described, and through increased awareness of thoughts and feelings, to develop communication skills and improve self-esteem.
Parental / guardian involvement
Individual counselling or psychotherapy with adolescents in London can be combined with some meetings with the parent(s) or guardian(s), and/or family therapy sessions, depending on the circumstances. |
