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Individual Therapy with the Couple in Mind 5/6: Conflict and how EFT May Help

  • 26th Aug 2022
  • Anne Power

How can insights from Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy help individual clients? In the penultimate part of her series, couples therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author Anne Power outlines the EFT approach to working with relationship conflict, including regulating relational distress, amplifying attachment meaning and enabling helpful exchange – and explains why the ‘Pursuer-Withdrawer’ dynamic is both so prevalent and so pernicious.

Individual Therapy with the Couple in Mind 4/6: Sex in the Long Run

  • 19th Aug 2022
  • Anne Power

Learning to talk with a partner about sex and intimacy is an important skill, and one we can help clients develop through individual therapy. In the fourth part of her series, couples therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author Anne Power explores various challenges and transitions that couples may experience in their sexual lives together – including aging, parenthood, and legacies of child sexual abuse – and shares how she learned as a therapist to broach the topic of sex.

Individual Therapy with the Couple in Mind 3/6: Converting a Passion v Building a Bond

  • 12th Aug 2022
  • Anne Power

Clients exploring their relationship difficulties in individual therapy are often preoccupied with one of two questions: ‘Is this really the person I married?’ or, ‘Is this truly The One?’ In the third part of her series, couples therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author Anne Power observes the various ways in which relationships may begin, including through dating sites – and considers the role of the individual therapist in helping clients work through the fears, doubts, regrets and feelings of loss that can ensue.

Individual Therapy with the Couple in Mind 2/6: Selecting our Mate

  • 5th Aug 2022
  • Anne Power

When we fall in love, we may be reuniting with undeveloped, feared or even hated parts of the self. In the second instalment of her series about how insights from couple therapy can enrich work with individual clients, couples therapist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author Anne Power looks at developmental and defensive relationship spirals, and shares her concept of ‘the fascinating and the familiar’ as a way to understand what we unconsciously look for in a partner.