Do you want to heal your relationship hurt?
Emotionally Focused Counselling is conveniently based at 325 Willis Street in Wellington city centre.
Caring, confidential and professional counselling is provided for couples and individuals looking for help with relationship issues. Weekend and evening appointments available with up to two hours free parking on nearby streets.
Learn new ways to communicate effectively with your partner, improve your sense of connection and intimacy, take home practical exercises to help you outside the therapy room. Relationship counsellor, Samantha Mathews, has 4 years training in counselling and psychotherapy and hails from Sydney where she had a busy private practice.
Have a look at the website www.efcounselling.co.nz for further details.
Couple or Marriage Counselling
Couple or Marriage Counselling can help partners to stop the exhausting cycle of conflict and arguments where issues never seem to get resolved. Anger, blame and criticism can leave you feeling unsupported, insecure and lonely as you wonder how things could have got this bad.
You or your partner may cope with this conflict by withdrawing into silence or feeling resentment and anger about how you are being treated. Couple Counselling can help to break the destructive cycles of conflict so both parties can start to listen and hear one another again allowing for more healthy communication and a renewed feeling of connection and intimacy.
Relationship Counselling
Relationship Counselling can help you explore what you are looking for in a relationship if you are single, dating, separated or divorced. Maybe you have experienced a series of relationships where you have ended up feeling taken for granted or struggled with commitment to another person.
You may have been very hurt by a previous partner and sabotage current relationships due to a fear of being abandoned or rejected. Or there may be a history of trauma or grief in your past which makes it difficult to trust or open up to another person.
Even if you are currently in a relationship you or your partner might be experiencing personal problems such as anxiety, depression, low self esteem or the habitual use of alcohol or drugs which is putting pressure on your relationship. You may need Counselling at this time to share your fears and find strategies to manage these troubling symptoms.
Counselling can help to remove some of the fixed patterns of relating you may have found yourself in and minimise the emotional blocks that are preventing you finding true happiness and security with another person.
Why work with me?
Your experiences, whether you are in a relationship or not, are precious and unique to you. Your values, beliefs, history and needs will be explored in a sensitive and respectful way to help you reach your goals and find a new way forward. You have already made a start just by reading this web page showing that despite the pain and hurt you have the strength to heal yourself and/or your relationship. My role is to help you access your innate ability to break away from limiting patterns of behaviour and heal the pain from present and past hurts.
My passion is around working with couples and individuals and their relationships; I am privileged to work with people who care deeply about themselves and their relationship. Revealing your pain and hurt to a counsellor is no easy task; your safety and privacy is of paramount importance to me
You can feel secure in the knowledge that I have the qualifications, experience and expertise to be able to help you heal the pain and hurt you are going through. I have provided counselling to couples and individuals in Australia for the last few years holding clinical membership of CAPA (The Counsellors & Psychotherapists Association of NSW). I have over 4 years training in psychotherapy and counselling both at The Jansen Newman Institute of Counselling (JNI) and The Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy (IEFT) in Sydney. I am very fortunate to have been trained and supervised by Dr Michelle Webster, clinical psychologist and founder of the IEFT who has over 35 years experience in couple and individual therapy.
About Samantha Mathews
Clinical member of CAPA
I am a Relationship Counsellor and Psychotherapist trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy with a private practice based in Wellington. I have over 8 years training and experience in psychotherapy and counselling having studied both at The Jansen Newman Institute of Counselling (JNI) and The Institute for Emotionally Focused Therapy (IEFT) in Sydney. My passion is providing, safe, supportive and well structured counselling sessions for couples and individuals looking to heal their relationship hurt and pain.
As part of the therapeutic process your issues will be heard and understood in a sensitive and non-judgemental way. Providing support, as well as challenge when appropriate, can open up new possibilities and help to regain well-being for you and your relationship.
I am deeply committed to helping individuals and couples break free from painful relationship patterns whilst deepening the emotional bond or connection between partners.
Qualifications
- Graduate Diploma Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Graduate Certificate Emotionally Focused Counselling
- PGCE English
- MA Victorian Literature
- BA English & History
Service Categories
Counselling
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