Relationship & Marriage Counselling Adelaide
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We are Adelaide’s leading couples counselling specialists
Helping you when your relationship is in crisis is our specialty.
Our relationships can be the most rewarding part of our lives, but there’s not a person alive who hasn’t experienced some difficulties in their relationship, and when your relationship is in trouble, it can be very stressful.
Most of us try initially to sort out our problems ourselves, but often, because we are IN our relationship, it’s not easy to take a bird’s eye view and see the whole picture; the dance that we have inadvertently got ourselves into. That’s where we can help. We can help you quickly gain insight into the core of your issues, and get started on a resolution that will ultimately lead you back to feeling in love again.
Couples counselling is a very specialized field of therapy, and that is why we choose our therapists very carefully and also have ongoing In-house training regularly. Whether there’s been a critical incident in your relationship or your discontent has grown overtime, we can help. We’ve spent the last 20+ years helping over 18,000 couples rediscover their happiness together after having lost their way, through effective relationship counselling.
Every relationship is different. Find a therapist who understands yours.
Hart Centre has helped thousands of couples strengthen and improve their relationships. Click below to find a therapist and begin the healing process.
Benefits of The Hart Centre
We are a group of more than 150 expert relationship Psychologists, Counsellors and Sex Therapists across Australia. Our vision is to provide the most highly regarded and comprehensive marriage counselling and relationship counselling, and sex therapy.
In Adelaide our Relationship Psychologists and Counsellors have been specifically chosen because they care about you as clients; they have their own expertise in couples counselling, and they are passionate about the importance of relationships in our lives.
Relationship counselling is a specialised type of counselling and requires specialised training. Our therapists all take part in both our Initial training as well as our Yearly In-House conferences specializing in Relationship Methodologies.
Appointments with Psychologists may be eligible for Medicare & Private Health Insurance Rebates.
7 relationship warning signs
- You are fighting over the same issues all the time, or having escalating fights
- You are not able to air your issues, talk about them and resolve them
- There are more and more silences between you
- You are spending less time together
- You are thinking about developing an interest with someone outside of your relationship
- You are focusing more time on the kids than each other
- You are having little or no sex
What happens in a couples counselling session?
Our counselling sessions
can help you
- Not feeling connected or close anymore
- Infidelity and cheating
- Controlling behaviour and attempts to be in control
- Emotional abuse
- Diminished intimacy and not feeling loved
- Poor methods of communication
- A loss of excitement or fulfillment
- Neglecting each other
- Your own issues from your childhood
- Differences of opinion on how you parent your children
- Handling your anger in healthy ways
- Problems in your sex life
- Pornography overuse or addiction
- Issues with a partner who is self-centred
- Checking on your relationship before you get married
- Handling someone who has many Narcissistic tendencies
The Hart Centre’s approach to relationship counselling
The quality of our service to you is very important to us, as we know how important your relationship is for you in your life.
It’s natural to be nervous about coming to see a relationship therapist for the first time. We pride ourselves in taking a very positive approach to our couples counselling.
We take great care to really understand the problems and perspectives of each of you before giving you insight into what dynamics are at play in your relationship that you might not have realised were there.
With you, we create a positive action plan, so that you can feel confident that you are making real progress. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and you will need more than one or two sessions, but you should see progress each session.
Read more about our approach to counselling in our relationship counselling sessions.
Some of our clinics also provide after hours and Saturday sessions for your convenience.
What is our relationship counselling success rate?
While every couple’s situation is different, feedback we have received from our clients is 93% have positively reported that they found counselling with our counsellors beneficial to their relationship.
We know that most couples want to find out the cause of their particular relationship problem, resolve them quickly, and then move onto bigger and better things, and that is what we focus on.
Under our expert guidance, you will gain a deeper understanding of your unique relationship difficulties and are given options and actions to help you become “unstuck” and move toward your relationship potential.
How do I choose the best counsellor to help my relationship?
The choice of relationship counsellor you make is important. It can help to keep in mind that relationship, marriage and couples counselling is a very specialised field of therapy. Help
At The Hart Centre, we ensure that all of our specialist relationship counsellors take part in both our Initial training as well as our annual In-House conferences, where we bring in relationship and marriage experts to speak, from around the world.
For you to get the best results from counselling as possible, there needs to be a combination of two elements. Firstly, your therapist needs to be experienced and knowledgeable in the field of relationships; and secondly, a good ‘therapeutic relationship’ should be developed. This simply means that you and your partner feel supported and understood by the therapist, and that you trust them.
To help you make this decision, on each of our therapists’ profiles we include in-depth overviews of experience and qualifications, so you can feel comfortable with the counsellor you would be seeing, before booking an appointment.
How to book an appointment
To enquire or book a session with us, click the button below. Prefer the phone? Call 1300 830 552, or call our Adelaide number directly at (08) 6323 1910 and one of our friendly receptionists will help you.
<h2″>The most common relationship problems
Does it feel like your partner doesn’t listen to you?
When your relationship is not travelling well, almost all couples feel that they cant communicate their feelings and be truly heard.
Even though you know that communication is important to have, it can be very difficult not to negatively bounce off each other when things are not happy between you.
And when you don’t feel heard, you usually don’t want to bother listening to your partner either. That then results in a lose-lose situation, with both of you feeling resentful.
So, it’s important to learn how to express yourself well, and also ensure that you each truly listen to each other.
In our feedback from many clients, they comment primarily that our counselling has helped them communicate far more effectively with each other, making their whole relationship seems easier, close and more loving.
Unresolved conflict leads to a loss of love
Every couple has conflict because we are 2 different people, but it is important to be able to resolve the conflict that comes up in a reasonable time, and not let it go on, and simmer away for years.
Doing this leads to hidden resentments, which is the primary cause of a loss of love between you over time.
Perhaps you’ve been neglecting your relationship?
It can be very painful to feel a loss of love, where once there was a mutual love and support even in difficult times.
Its so easy to get busy with your life and all the other commitments you have and forget that your relationship is a living breathing thing that needs ongoing nurturing, in the way of time and energy in being together and fully engaging and having fun with each other.
If you have unwittingly allowed your relationship to go this way, we can help to get your relationship back on track.
An affair or betrayal can be devastating
When one partner chooses to look outside their relationship and develop another connection with someone, this causes a huge amount of pain for the partner whose agreement of monogamy has been betrayed.
It is an extremely difficult time, but with the help of a skilled counsellor, you can work through the issues involved and gradually, over time, grow into a better relationship than you had before.