When is a lie a lie in couples?
A major breach of trust occurs when someone deliberately lies to deceive the other. Where couples are concerned, there are two main areas in which lies like this are used: money and infidelity.
Couples Coaching
Karen Doherty Coaching, Couples Coaching Brighton, Blog Category: Couples Coaching.
Walking on eggshells in your relationship
Walking on eggshells can happen to any couple if there is unresolved conflict between them. They will both try to avoid contact with each other if they believe that a solution cannot be found.
Couple New Year’s Resolutions
I urge couples to establish shared goals. Not the superficial “hashtag” kind. I’m talking about meaningful commitments that nurture closeness, create shared experiences, and build a vision for the future together. These are the kinds of goals that strengthen bonds and transform resolutions into lasting connection.
How couples move from crisis to growth
Reaching crisis does not mean the relationship is broken. It usually means both partners have been carrying too much alone. If your relationship feels like it is hitting a wall, there is a path forward that is calmer, clearer and genuinely hopeful.
Rewriting inherited relationship scripts
When a couple walks into the therapy room, I don’t just meet two individuals. I meet two entire histories. Their parents, siblings, caretakers, even grandparents. These are all present in the ways a couple speak, argue, reach or retreat. Our early experiences with receiving care have a lifelong impact on how we naturally interact.
Reframing the conversation around neurodivergence
ND lives have been framed in terms of difficulty, disruption or “special needs”. Yet in my therapy room, I see something very different. I see creative problem-solving, emotional depth, humour, originality, sensitivity, and a capacity for innovation that often outpaces the systems around them.
Neurodivergence, empathy and intimacy
Even in loving relationships, empathy and intimacy can sometimes misfire. ND couples might mistake different ways of operating as incompatability. We look at strategies to help.
Somatic therapy exercises you can do at home
Increasingly, research is backing up the use of somatic therapies such as Somatic Experiencing (SE) as part of a holistic approach to trauma. It also showed SE improved resilience and quality of life, suggesting potential benefits for self-care and practice.
Balancing household tasks in a neurodiverse relationship
When one or more people in a household are neurodivergent, everyday tasks like washing up or changing the bed can become problematic. We look at how it can be approached collaboratively.
Stepping back into the body with holosomatic breathwork
Yesterday I did what we all so seldom do in our daily lives – I got out of my head and into my body. I joined Innercamp’s Holosomatic Breathwork workshop, and it shifted everything.