Couple and Relationship Therapy: A Guide to Practice
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : November 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 180
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Catalogue No : 98701
- ISBN 13 : 9781041201748
- ISBN 10 : 1041201745
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Couple and Relationship Therapy: A Guide to Practice is a foundational guide exploring the actual practice of working with couples and relationships therapeutically distilled from the authors' 40 years of experience.
This book addresses the complex, dynamic nature of couple and relationship therapy through case examples and theoretical reflection. It’s not about the theory of couple and relationship therapy rather it’s about how to think, manage and work with what turns up in the room. The authors' original concepts drive the process of embedding learning concepts into practice and present a fresh and accessible approach to relationship therapy. It provides a straightforward, diverse, foundation of understanding to the reader of how to practically work within this field and will be an invaluable asset to existing and training relationship therapists.
A clear and accessible foundational guide aimed at new trainee therapists and counsellors in both individual and relationship work, counsellors and therapists considering extending to couple work and for more experienced counsellors wanting to revisit the basics.
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'A much needed straight-talking, down-to-earth manual on what therapists actually need to know, and what they need to do, regarding their client's relational presentations, including communication, sexual intimacy, anger, affairs and breaches of trust, as well as working with endings. Anne Chilton offers a thorough guide based on her decades of clinical experience. As such, it is not a theoretical or academic book, instead, it feels like having an intimate moment learning from Anne's vast experience in the field. It is a true gift.'
Silva Neves, author of Sexology: The Basics
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Beginnings: What are Relationships?
2. Beginnings: As the Therapist
3. Beginnings: The Therapeutic Journey
4. Beginnings: Contracting and Confidentiality
5. Beginnings: Assessment and Consent
6. Beginnings: Contexts
7. Questions: What stops people having the conversations they need to have?
8. Questions: When is the problem not the actual problem?
9. Middles: Relationships and the space between
10. Middles: Starting the conversation
11. Middles: Communication
12. Middles: Working with anger, rows and disagreements
13. Middles: Sex and Intimacy
14. Middles: Affairs and other breaches of trust
15. Endings: Transitions, separations and ending
Afterword
About the Author(s)
Anne Chilton is a couple and relationship therapist with over 40 years’ experience. She is a Senior Accredited Relationship and Psychosexual Therapist and has a lifelong interest in how relationships work.
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