Gay Couple Counselling for Hampshire Relationships

“Havant, Hampshire (UK) and Worldwide (Skype)”

About Gay Couple Counselling…

What is Gay Couple Counselling? Why would a gay or lesbian couple choose this therapy? How does couple counselling help? What are the unique attributes to LGBT relationships? These and more questions answered here…

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Skype: Gay Couple Video-Therapy

GayCoupleCounselling.com provides Skype Video couple therapists for gay & lesbian relationships. Share one Skype device, or use one device each. An ideal solution when too far from your choice of therapist and also for long-distance relationships…

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Dean Richardson MNCS(Accredited Registrant)

CEO of GayCoupleCounselling.com, couple therapist Dean Richardson is an experienced qualified gay male couple counsellor originally trained in the British-school of systemic/psychodynamic relationship therapy. Dean's practice is centred in Hampshire (UK) and available WorldWide by Skype…

Separating…

Gay couples break-up like any other couple, and it's a myth that couple counselling is only to keep a couple together. When your relationship's responsibilities include children, pets, finance & other important negotiations we will help you both separate amicably…

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Sex Therapy for Gay Couple Relationships

Sex therapy for gay and lesbian couples safely addresses the emotional or "secondary" sexual dysfunction issues that are making a sexual relationship difficult or impossible for a gay couple.

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Article: "Why we recommend “Homo History” Blog"

LGBT Histories have been tipp-exed out, obfuscated & rewritten. Finding photographs and stories of vintage gay couples is a healthy challenge to our low self-worth. LGBT couples have existed for a long time.

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Article: "Holocaust Memorial Day – but not for us?"

Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) is 27th January ... but let us not forget that the memorial is also for our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters killed in the concentration camps.

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Article: "Long-Distance LGBT Couple Counselling"

Gay couples in long-distance relationships (different countries) can receive quality couple counselling via GayCoupleCounselling.com. Straightforward to begin, effective to use, satisfactory outcomes.

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Specialist LGBT Couple Counselling Services available across Hampshire, UK,
from Winchester to Southampton to Fareham, Havant and Chichester,
from Isle of Wight to Portsmouth, Petersfield and Guildford.

Why Counselling for Gay Relationships?

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Gay Couple Counselling offers effective systemic, psychodynamic & cognitive behavioural approach (CBT) solutions that, for decades, have provided effective transformations for couple relationships.

Gay men and lesbian women are just as capable of managing relationship-conflicts as any other couple. Many of us, though, were disadvantaged in the way we were brought up in heteronormative, gay-unaware or gay-intolerant families. Sometimes, our attachment styles were disturbed leaving long-term intimacy difficult.

In Gay Couple Counselling we can work on:-

Communication & Listening Skills.
Learning how your relationship 'systems' work and how to dynamically interrupt & repair faults.
Understanding what your arguments are trying to achieve.
Understanding how your 'baggage' triggers his/hers 'baggage'.
Learning differences between Intimacy, Sex, Love & Affection.
Building a set of couple-skills to last your lifetime.

It takes courage to bring your relationship into counselling. It will be our honour to work with you.

How to Begin Counselling for Gay Couples

Gay Couple Counselling has no minimum (nor maximum) number of sessions, and we won't commit you to months of counselling. We'll start with a one-off 50-minute session to talk the relationship, begin to discuss the focus of our work, and to make sure that you both feel informed about continuing in couple counselling, should you decide to continue.

Let's make this straightforward:-

Choose from our Portsmouth Face-to-Face or our Skype/Online counselling service.
Choose a day and a time that you both could attend weekly (details here).
Contact us!

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If we all agree to continue counselling, you will be invited to one individual session each, before meeting together again to aggregate our points of view. Our aim is to discover, negotiate & agree upon the focus for your unique relationship's needs in couple counselling.

You and your partner will become active participants in the therapy process and you will be creating a therapy that works uniquely for your relationship's needs… until you've no more need of the counsellor.