What our clients say

“As a family we had a dysfunctional relationship with each other, resulting from a personal trauma which affected each of us in different ways, coming shortly after a major family bereavement. As we each had our anger and individual feelings resulting from this, we could not come together as a family without grievances arising, causing much sadness and stress. Realising that we ourselves could not heal the situation, we decided as a family to have counselling and as one of us had had previous individual counselling with Relate, it was the basis for us to go forward with Relate.

The counselling has made an immense difference to our lives: we are able to communicate more easily with each other, put boundaries around the things that might upset us, and discuss reasonably any issues that upset us without anger or hurtful words. It has given us the opportunity to look forward to being together as a family when we are able to meet up eventually. We are also more supportive of each other if one of us is struggling with any problems.

We do not believe that we would have ever been able to get to this point without the support of our wonderful counsellor, who encouraged and gently guided us through the sessions and gave us the tools to put past traumas behind us and move forward.

It has helped us become a family once again. We cannot thank Relate enough for making this possible for us and would most definitely recommend their services.”