Marriage Guidance

How do happier couples differ from unhappier ones? As a professional systemic/psychodynamic couple counsellor, Dean Richardson discusses five secrets of happier couples.

Couples who wish to (or have to) separate amicably, who have children or other responsibilities to manage, can find couple counselling a helpful resource to assist both partners in their separation. As a qualified couples counsellor, Dean Richardson can help couples in their focus to end their relationship.

The choice to come into couples counselling may be a courageous one & choosing Dean Richardson can help you both transform the most important relationship of your life. Ideal for marriages, civil-partnerships and platonic relationships, with lots of helpful therapeutic curiosity we'll learn how your relationship became stuck. We'll learn how to perturb unhappy behaviour by gaining new knowledge. With inspiration & creative ideas from all of us we'll introduce changes. With supportive observation, challenge & systemic hypothesising, Dean will help you both to join in the process until you have no further need of him nor couple counselling. Whether breaking-up or reconciling, you could begin counselling soon...

For couple counselling following an HIV diagnosis, you don't need to be referred to Dean Richardson by your local GUM clinic nor your doctor. Private HIV couple counselling.

Before therapy commences in earnest, a couple is invited to an assessment.

An assessment allows the couple to give an overview of their relationship problems to the therapist, allows the therapist offers some helpful, information-gathering questions, and allows all three the opportunity to discuss if they can work together to achieve the focus discovered and set by the...