In addition to her training in psychology, Emelie has trained as a couple & relationship counsellor and  psychotherapist. Having worked in this capacity for many years, she specialises in marital and relationship difficulties and provides professional services for a range of issues, including:

- personal issues, growth & change
- separation, loss & grief
- depression & anxiety
- trauma
- intimacy & sexual issues
- parenting & step-parenting
- self esteem
- men's issues

'Hesitation,' reproduced with the kind permission of the sculptor, Des McKenna. Photograph by David Johnson.

The number of sessions you may  require, depends on the nature of the difficulties you are experiencing and your particular needs at the time of seeking help.

- You may need to work through a crisis and  find new  ways of dealing with your  particular situation.                                     

Or you  may seek a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms and patterns  which affect your life. This may require a lengthier period of therapy .
                                           
- Couples, whether heterosexual or same-sex,  seek help for a wide variety  of  issues concerning  living  together. Some seek help in a crisis - others want to work towards an understanding and a change of the current relationship…

Some couples want help to handle their separation as well as possible, for both  themselves and their children.

- Parents seek help when they are concerned about  their children's behaviour . They may need  help to  reconnect with each other as parents, as well as with their children. The goal is to understand and to meet the different individual needs of the family at this stage in their life.

Living in blended  families places specific demands on the families;  my children and yours …What role do I have as a step-parent?  How do we nurture the couple relationship?  

- In most situations, when seeking help from a counsellor, the goal is to clarify and make sense of  what is happening  and to remove  obstacles for  a more constructive communication.