6. Develop better relationships with your loved ones...
  
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It has often been said, including by Werner Erhard, that people can't communicate because what they call communicaiton isn't communication at all; and they cannot manage relationships, because their definitions of relationship are naive and simplistic.  I can teach you how to communicate effectively with your loved ones, and to have great relationships at home and at work.

Dr Jim Byrne

January 2010

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Couples therapy and family relationships

Family is where we all begin our lives, and it is crucially important to ensure that the relationships we create for our children are the best possible start in their lives.  It is important to model good communications skills; negotiation of solutions instead of the use of aggression and verbal conflict.  It is also important to each of us to be in loving relationships in which we each get a chance to win, and a chance to support others in winning.  Loving relationships are about give and take.

If you are involved in an unhappy relationship, with parents, siblings, friends, peers, or with a marriage partner or lover, then I can help you to straighten out your communication, and to learn how to get rid of the destructive tendencies that bring a relationship down and produce misery in the lives of all involved.

Relationships that are not worked on tend to spiral down into negativity, destructiveness or just plain indifference and drifting apart.  I can show you how to spiral your relationships upwards, which produces a win-win solution for all involved.  If you want some idea of how I work with couples on their problems, please take a look at this little video clip entitled 'Introdcution to Couples Therapy'

If you want to get a quick snapshot of your major relationship at the moment, there is a simple and quick quiz you can take at PsychCentral.  You can then click the < Back button in the top lefthand corner of your browser to return to this page: Quick relationship quiz.

If you are involved in couple conflict, you might wonder what it could possibly look like to be in a counsellor's office, or on the telephone (on two telephone extensions), or working over the internet, with you on one computer and your partner on another, and me managing the session, then the best I can do to help to illustrate that for you is to show you a couple of extracts from a video about solution focussed therapy.  Here it is:

If you want to be able to create good relationships; to manage communication, including when conflict in unavoidable, then I can help you to develop the correct understanding and the appropriate skills.  You don't even have to take time out to come and see me at my office; and we never even have to meet.  We can work together over the telephone, and I can send you follow-up reading material, and you can email me with progress reports. 

On the other hand, if you want to meet face to face, I can set up an appointment to meet in Halifax or Hebden Bridge. 

In a short time you can develop high levels of communication and relationship skills, if you respond well to my coaching.

To set up an appointment, call me today on:

Telephone: 01422 843 629 (inside the UK)

Telephone: 44 1422 843 629 (outside the UK)

Or email me at: jim.byrne@abc-counselling.com

Or download an information pack: Information pack for Face to Face clients

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Don't miss this chance to improve your relationships, at home and at work.

Call me today.

Jim Byrne
Doctor of Counselling
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services

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"A good starting point for effective communication is this: First seek to understand the other person; then to be understood by them.  Maintain respect for them, as you would want them to maintain their respect for you.  To relate powerfully with another, just give up making them wrong!  Stop blaming and criticizing.  Try assertive complaining about one or two of their behaviours, in the context of praising them for their good points; but do not identify THEM with their BEHAVIOUR!"  Dr Jim Byrne, January 2010

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ABC Coaching and Counselling Services * Halifax * Hebden Bridge * UK * Phone: (44) (0)1422 843 629*

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Email: Dr Jim Byrne at ABC Coaching  

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On this site you will find lots of information about coaching, counselling and psychotherapy services to help with all kinds of emotional, behavioural and relationship difficulties and problems.  Counselling and therapy in Halifax, and Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK; and all over the world via the telephone system, by email, and using Skype.com for computer based  counselling.

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