Relate is all about relationships

If you want to talk about your relationships past, present or future, how your family is affected by your relationship, how you can improve your relationship, how you can manage a separation constructively, how you can get over a break-up, Relate is here to help you.

Relate counsellors see over 100,000 people a year. Their role is to listen, to encourage you to talk openly about your concerns, and help you reach your own decisions about the best way forward.

Who is it for?

Relate counselling is open to everyone aged over 16, and to families with children of any age. Whether you are married, living together, in a same-sex relationship, separated, divorced or single, our confidential service can help you to deal with your relationship difficulties. You can come on your own, with your family, or with a partner.  We also offer a specialised service for Children and Young People in North Herts only.

How does it work?

With your counsellor you’ll explore your feelings, values and expectations, and gain assistance with communication and problem solving and look at options and new possibilities.

At the end of counselling 90% of the people we see feel they understand their problem better and feel more able to deal with it.

We offer counselling, sex therapy and other services to help people with difficulties they are having, or have had, in any adult couple relationship.

Counselling:

You might be thinking about coming to see us with your partner or alone. We see couples who are married, couples who are not married, same sex couples, young couples, old couples and everyone in between.

Whether you have a partner or not, people often come for counselling and sex therapy alone and find it helpful.

You might be having problems that you want to resolve, or you might have decided that you want to separate, or you might already have separated. Or, you might have concerns about how you will manage some of the difficult times in everyone’s life, such as:

· Getting married

· Moving in with your partner

· Pregnancy & having children

· Redundancy

· Illness

· Divorce & Separation

· Step-families

· Retirement

· Bereavement

Whatever the issues that are troubling you, we will do our best to help.

Sex Therapy:

Sex therapy generally works best for people who are managing their relationships quite well, but who are experiencing specific problems in their sexual relationship.

Children & Young People's Counselling:

Relate Children and Young People's Counselling is for any young person who is having problems.  Our counsellors get what's going on in young people's lives and can help you deal with the challenges of school life and growing up.  We will listen and help young people understand their relationships better, whether they are with parents, peers or teachers.

If you are in any doubt as to which of our services might be most appropriate for you, come in and talk to a counsellor.