Create your relationship “happily ever after”…
I’m Catriona Lightfoot, Relationship Counsellor and Educator. I can help you transform your relationship struggles into new actions, with tools and strategies to build your relationship and keep that love alive. I can teach you how to get your needs met, while loving your partner and growing your relationship into one you really want to hang out in.
"It's a misconception that love is a feeling and you either have it, or you don't. The fact is that LOVE grows in response to getting your needs met". Dr Patricia Love
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I offer relationship counselling, coaching and workshops across the relationship lifespan: pre-marriage; pre-baby; together a few years or many; relationships in crisis where you may not be sure if you want to continue and relationships as they end.
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Most of us do not learn the skills of how to be in a relationship at school or anywhere else - the best we’ve got is modeling from our parents or carers and perhaps other significant people in our lives. If we are lucky, we picked up something helpful but many of us learnt a lot of what not to do. And then we bring that to our relationship and wonder why things aren’t feeling so great. Relationship counselling helps by teaching you how to do it differently…
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There is no such thing as a perfect partner because there is no such thing as a perfect person. When we accept that and take responsibility for our part in the relationship, put in the effort and do the work magic can happen!
I’m currently attending an on-line relationship conference and in a presentation by one of my favourite relationship experts, Harville Hendrix and his wife Helen La Kelly Hunt, Harville was saying that people often ask him if they should quit their relationship and his response is:
So over the next few weeks I will share my top things to quit IN your relationship that will help make your relationship feel so good you won’t want to Quit it!