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Healing the Broken Heart
To the emotionally unsupported person, the loss or fragmentation of a relationship is intolerable. The loss of someone robs us not only of their presence, but also of the identity and security found through them. Many people who suffer in their relationship can experience a deep sense of personal abandonment, trauma, rejection and loss, end up in a life marked by a lack of self-confidence and self worth. This can lead to resentment, embitterment, even hatred of the partner they once loved.
“Sometimes, when one person is missing the
whole world seems depopulated.”
(Alphonse de Lamartine)
The direction of the treatment focuses on improving partners' understanding of each others’ needs, facilitating communication and exploring unspoken assumptions about their relationship. A study carried out by the Institute of Psychiatry found that depressed individuals and their partners who went to a couple therapist were more likely to recover than those given medication-based treatments.
I aim to:
• increase understanding of underlying problems as well as the obvious areas of division or dispute
• Reduce the power of disappointments and hurts, both past and present, thereby freeing you to discover new ways of relating
• Clarify feelings and the choices available to you
• Open a way to greater fulfilment both as part of a couple and as individuals
And in cases of bereavement or the break-up of a relationship, individual therapy can help to:
• Address feelings of sadness and pain
• Mourn the loss of the relationship
• Cope with living alone and finding one’s own sense of self
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