The workshops are designed for couples who are at any stage of their relationship, who want to enrich their relationship. I do however recommend couples who are experiencing distress in their relationship to seek couples therapy, and use the workshops as a top up.

The group model has several advantages, including; lessened stigma, skills building, less time constraining, and the group process helping to model, and supporting each other through the process.

My clinical work has enlightened me to the fact that mental wellbeing and relationships is intricately linked; one directly affecting the other. Healthy relationships promote our mental wellbeing, and our mental wellbeing is affected by the relationships that we create around us. Disfunctions in our relationships are a leading cause of poor mental health.

Healthy relationships are fulfilling; ones that make us feel valued, cared for, validated, loved, nurtured enabling us to reciprocate the same. They boost our sense of self, and self-esteem. On the other hand, unhealthy relationships are depleting emotionally, mentally, physically and at times financially, as well as sexually. They crush our self-esteem, sense of self, and make us question everything about ourselves. We are made to feel small, invalid, unloved, insignificant, and muted. Our mental health can be severely impacted by toxic relationships, and we can cause ourselves a lot of harm by staying in them.

Most difficulties that people present to therapy with are relational – issues with relationships with themselves - “I hate myself; l am not good enough etc”, -relationships with others- “I feel let down and heartbroken; she rejected me; he took advantage of me; l am angry with him for….”, -or relationships with both the self and others. Therefore, the key to our mental wellbeing rests in the relationships that we create with ourselves, and others, and our ability to continuously appraise them.

As humans, we are fundamentally social beings. Our ancestors lived and thrived in batches, living in close knit communities. We don’t live in isolation, and relationships are at the core of our being. These relationships we create with ourselves, and others determine how we view ourselves subjectively, and they determine where we place ourselves in society. Fundamentally these relationships provide us with meaning of the world, and who we are in it - our identity in the world.

My motto is therefore that fundamentally, we need to develop a healthy relationship with ourselves first, before we extend the same to others. We cannot expect others to love us, treat us with kindness, & respect us if we don’t afford ourselves the same. In order to be able to fully love and care for others, we need to commit to loving and caring for ourselves first: we need to fill our cup first, otherwise we can’t pour from an empty cup.

As part of our wellbeing, we should also strive to build healthy relationships with others, particularly our loved ones, in a romantic sense. These notions fuel my passion for working with both individuals and couples, helping them create and foster healthy, nurturing, loving, fulfilling, and enduring relationships in their lives. It is my privilege to deliver these workshops on subjects that I am deeply passionate about.

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