Relationships as a resource for recovery

therapy  together :
Taking your First Step Towards Recovery

When daily life has become emotionally challenging or confusing for any reason, it is usually our relationships that can help or hinder a way forward

To explore and develop a shared understanding of the challenge you face is often a helpful place to start. Relational and/or emotional distress &/or mental illness symptoms are best understood within the contexts they develop and present, and how this informs your experiences and choices. Often, we think that coping silently alone and not upsetting our loved ones is the best way to protect them and perhaps a way to manage our own emotions. However, the opposite can often be true. Coming to therapy together, with the people that love and care for each other the most is often a good first step to recovery and a happier future. Coming to therapy together alone, with relationships in mind, held in meaningful conversations can also create opportunities for change.  

Louise Durrant MSc

I am a fully qualified, AFT accredited and UKCP registered Systemic Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor with over 20 years professional clinical experience from a range of different settings, working with children, adolescents, young adults, couples, parents and families.

Louise Durrant  MSc

Louise Durrant MSc

My independent practice, Therapy Together, provides a highly successful, compassionate & calm place to support & explore a way forward.

Practice Specialities:

  • Child and adolescent emotional well being
  • Families experiencing significant change, distress and/or trauma
  • Anxiety and/or depression
  • Disordered eating &/or obsessional behaviours
  • Behavioural problems
  • School related difficulties
  • Attachment and/or relationship problems
  • School consultations/meetings and educational talks
  • Tensions and stress in the workplace
  • Professional clinical supervision (individuals and/or group)

You are the reason I was able to speak to my parents openly and properly once again. You are the reason why my family is now on a hopeful journey to finding peace and happiness amongst us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart...

from a 21 year old with obsessive compulsive disorder
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