JHR Counselling - Relationship Counsellor

18/11/2025

Do you dislike your partners friends?
Are your partners friends causing problems for your relationship?

There are many reasons why you may be having issues with your partners friends and relationship counselling can help you explore these further. I can help you communicate your feelings and opinions to your partner and similarly allow them time to express their own. I will help you explore where your opinions and views may have come from and look at ways in which you can move forwards in a way that benefits you both.

To book a free 30 minute Zoom consultation with me, head to my website where you can book a time and date to suit you. x Jo
http://www.jhrcounselling.co.uk/

17/11/2025

Sometimes relationships need work. Sometimes you need another perspective, a different way and a place where you have the time and space to find clarity, together.
Relationships counselling can offer you just that and more. I can support you to clarify and meet your goals for your relationship and your future, offering you time, empathy and understanding.
Sometimes relationship counselling is the way.

16/11/2025

Everyone knows relationships can be really hard, couples grow up and grow apart. They get into habits of communicating that can be counter productive and bad for the relationship. Often couples don't realise they have picked up these habits, they just know that something is wrong.

Experts have identified 4 different behaviours within communication that, if left unchecked, can destroy relationships.

The last of these behaviours is Stonewalling - Stonewalling is a sign of emotional exhaustion and shouldn't be ignored.TO find out if stonewalling is having a negative effect on your relationship and how you can change it, head to my website and read my new blog, 4 behaviours that could mean the end for your relationship!
https://bit.ly/3x1cpHr

15/11/2025

14/11/2025

What happens to your body when you are stressed or feeling extreme anxiety?

When we feel high levels of stress or anxiety we can notice quite a lot of different physical things happening to our bodies and sometimes these physical symptoms make us feel even more scared which can make the anxiety even worse.

That is why it is important to understand what these symptoms are and why they happen. The fight or flight response is our bodies natural response to danger, so when we feel threatened our body does lots of things to help us respond to that threat. This includes, breathing harder and faster so the heart and lungs can get more oxygen, the heart will pump faster so it can prepare your legs to run or fight and your thoughts may start racing to allow you to think quickly. All of these symptoms and more exist to protect us and have been present for many many years.

However, as we know, danger is perceived, so it’s not just the obvious speeding car coming towards us but perhaps it’s the room full of people or the prospect of presenting a PowerPoint to your boss. Our experiences and our past influence our fears and anxiety is a coping mechanism for these.
Understanding the fight of flight response is really important in understanding and controlling your anxiety or stress, check out the below article to do just this and to find out other helpful advice x Jo

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13/11/2025

Do you ever look at your relationship and ask yourself if you are happy?
Do you ever wonder if you should be happier?
Do you wonder where the relationship you once had has gone?

Sometimes recognising you could benefit from support is the hardest thing, then comes the point where you have to find some.

I have been working as a Couples Counsellor for the last few years and have experience supporting couples through a range of issues. If you would like to have a chat and get to know more about what I do and how it could benefit you, please visit my website where you can book a free 30 minutes consultation. Alternatively you can send me a message 🙂
http://www.jhrcounselling.co.uk/

12/11/2025

Wouldn't it be great if life was safe? If everywhere we turned our security was guaranteed?
Wouldn't it be great if we could love without fear? If everyone we met would have our backs?

Now I'm not daft, I know it isn't and I know they don't. Many of us have experienced life in a way that makes us hide away, protect ourselves, build walls around our hearts and minds to protects us from the danger that lurks in the shadows. It's heartbreaking but its true!

We do these things to stay alive, to ensure we don't get hurt, but sometimes our defenses stop us from finding the love we deserve and from feeling the sunshine on our faces. Sometimes we are so used to acting and thinking in our defensive ways that we don't even know we do it. Then when relationships breakdown, we keep losing people closest to us, lose jobs, make bad decisions and generally feel rubbish, we can't understand why.

It's time to let the good back in, It's time to live and love without fear.

Counselling can help you understand and reevaluate your behaviours, reactions, thoughts and opinions to make sure they are, as you want them to be. To make sure they are informed and logical, to make sure every trait, habit and behaviour you have is to your benefit, to truly support you and your life.

For a free 30 minutes consultation get in touch or head to me website and book direct x Jo

11/11/2025

It's not always easy to understand just how Relationship Counselling can support your relationship. You may be having difficulties and you may know that your're not as happy as you would like to be, but the thought of inviting a stranger into that dynamic is often hard to imagine.

However, sometimes a Relationship Counsellor is just what you need to reset the balance of your relationship and support you in moving past some of the difficulties you may be facing. Everyone gets into a pattern of living and with that we often miss what may be obvious to others, when that happens in our most private relationships it's even harder for others to point out. That is where I come in.

If you would like to talk about how I may be able to support you please feel free to get in touch or book a free 30 minute online consultation with me at a time that suits you and we can discuss everything that is worrying you in a little more detail x Jo

http://www.jhrcounselling.co.uk/

10/11/2025

To get further support to improve your good day's, head to my profile or website.

09/11/2025

Everyone knows relationships can be really hard, couples grow up and grow apart. They get into habits of communicating that can be counter productive and bad for the relationship. Often couples don't realise they have picked up these habits, they just know that something is wrong.

Experts have identified 4 different behaviours within communication that, if left unchecked, can destroy relationships.

The 3rd these behaviours is Contempt- Contempt is never good, ever, it should never be used in any communication with your partner. To find out if it is having a negative effect on your relationship and how you can change it, head to my website and read my new blog, 4 behaviours that could mean the end for your relationship!
https://bit.ly/3x1cpHr

08/11/2025

How many of you have hated your partner, just a little bit, just for a while? 😜
How many of you have had issues in your life that have caused arguments, friction, disagreements? What about big decisions that have kept you up at night?😫

The fact is relationships aren't always rainbows and butterflies, because life isn't always rainbows and butterflies.

We all have emotions, opinions, physical and mental health that can be affected by everything and anything. It doesn't matter how strong your love it, there will come a time when the storm will hit and it will be hard...... why? because we are all human and sometimes life's a b***h

The amount of sunshine in your relationship is not the only mark of its strength, its the way in which you battle through the storms, its standing in the rain together and having each others backs. Its acknowledging that you may not always like your partner or even want to be with them, and its getting through all of that together. That is the test of a good relationship 😍

07/11/2025

I love this article and the writers honest and open account of their experience of counselling, not just during but before as well because let’s face it, we all have pre-conceptions about what counselling is. He talks about his worries, his nerves and his own personal reasons for turning to therapy. He then goes on to tell us what it was actually like. You should know by now I do love a true account from an actual person who has been through the process and found a hint of the passion I share 😊 x Jo

https://bit.ly/4lqNhEh