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Marriage Counselling in Bath: Restoring Connection & Lasting Commitment
Marriage is a journey that often evolves over decades, embodying an entirely different set of challenges to relationships in their first year or two. And the skills to deal with those specific challenges need to be learned for a successful relationship.
Whether you are navigating the transition to parenthood, managing adolescents, mid-life career strains, or uncertainties about of an empty nest, the pressures of a shared life can sometimes feel overwhelming.
Most couples enter marriage with the right intentions and in good faith, but can find themselves ill-equipped for the new challenges along the way. In the overwhelming majority of cases, there is nothing wrong with the partners themselves.
There is often, however, a lack of understanding, meaningful communication and conflict resolution skills. This disrupts marital harmony. Fortunately, all these areas can be worked on and massively improved with a professional intervention.
Specific Issues for Married Partners
Some of the themes married partners report when their marriage is struggling:
Communication Breakdowns: Learning to replace unhealthy communication, or non-communication, with far healthier ways of handling situations. Go from barely talking, or unhelpful rows or disagreements, to authentic communication with support to change.
Infidelity & Trust: Navigating the aftermath of an affair and deciding if the marriage can be rebuilt. Short answer: yes it can be rebuilt, but it takes work, commitment and deep listening under the right guidance. See more on infidelity below.
The "Roommate" Syndrome: Losing the romantic spark and feeling like co-parents or co-habitators rather than lovers. The relationship can be re-energised with new vigour by focusing on what is really important for true intimacy.
Life Transitions: Retirement, bereavement, or career shifts that strain the marital bond. My couples frequently overcome these challenges with a newfound confidence.
Chris Langer, Marriage and Couples Counsellor
How I help with Targeted Support for Marriages
My approach to marriage counselling in Bath is non-judgmental and proactive. Conveniently located for couples in Bath City Centre, Lansdown, and with free parking, you could be starting the next chapter with each other very soon.
We don't focus on who is 'right'; we look at the system of your marriage. And no, this definitely isn’t something you can do with AI! Using evidence-based techniques and thousands of hours of clinical experience, I help you:
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Identify the repetitive 'cycles' or arguments you get stuck in.
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Re-establish emotional safety so you can speak your truth.
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Create a 'shared map' for the future of your relationship with far stronger foundations
Take the first step toward saving your marriage. Make an appointment and start making changes for the better from the very first session.
Rebuilding Trust After Infidelity
Discovering an affair - whether physical or emotional - is a traumatic event that can leave you feeling disoriented and overwhelmed. It is often the most painful chapter a marriage can face, but it does not have to be the final one.
In our sessions, we create a structured, safe space to move through the stages of recovery:
1. The Questioning Phase
Managing the initial shock, establishing transparency, and the freedom to ask questions. Understanding the impact of the emotional rollercoaster that often ensues.
2. Understanding the 'Why’
Exploring the vulnerabilities that existed in the relationship before the infidelity. Understanding what needs were not being met.
3. Re-committing
Deciding how to move forward and building a 'new' marriage based on honest foundations. With the right, structured process it is entirely possible for the relationship to feel better than it was before the infidelity - but it does take time and a reasonable effort from both partners.
I work with couples in Bath to move past the 'detective' phase and toward a place where healing - and eventually, trust - can begin to feel natural again.