Relationship Counselling can be a powerful way to help a person work through early life trauma. 

A partner's presence, emotional grounding and support can ease the challenges of trauma therapy. this video course contains an interview of Relate’s team of relationship counsellors and their perspectives and strategies of using couples therapy to help  couples work through childhood issues. not surprisingly, couples that use relationship therapy to work through trauma experience a deepening of connection, relationship resilience and communication.

Click on the video to the see an example of this course.

This course has 12 lessons:

1. How to support your partner-survivor with childhood trauma
2. Is couples therapy appropriate for our situation?
3. Removing blame and meeting needs
4. A story about healing
5. Childhood trauma frequency and the role of healthy relationships in strengthening society
6. Flexibility and Presence
7. The problem with reenactment cycles
8. Helping dissociation and avoidance
9. How trauma affects stages of the relationship cycle
10. Using physical connection to manage stress
11. Being emotionally present
12. Date nights and flirting