Do you struggle with Depression and Anxiety in the context of a relationship?
Does your mood impact your relationship or your relationship impact your mood?
Couple therapy for depression and Behavioural couple therapy, aim to improve relationships by helping couples identify and work together on things that create unhappiness.
Community Living Well aims to help couples build upon the strengths in their relationship and understand the way in which difficulties in the relationship can contribute to depression in one or sometimes both partners. This therapy is for couples who are living together and where one or both experience depression.
Accessing Couples’ Therapy
Your couple therapist will begin with trying to get a picture of what you and your partner find difficult in your relationship and how this is affecting you both. Sometimes your couple therapist may suggest ways for you to improve your communication and this may involve some “homework”. Sessions are 50 – 60 minutes long and offered once a week. It is important for both partners to attend sessions (apart from some of the assessment sessions). The number of sessions involved in a course of therapy can vary and your therapist will discuss this with you at the outset.
You will both be asked to fill in questionnaires about anxiety and low mood at each session.
You can ask your GP to refer you to the service, or you can contact Talking Therapies (IAPT) directly:
Website: www.communitylivingwell.co.uk
E-mail: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 3317 4200