About Connect
| Connect is one of the South West’s leading relationship counselling services. Connect counselors strive for excellence in the provision of counselling for couples. We support couple and family relationships from any background, culture, ethnic diversity or sexual orientation. Connect is a recently formed organisation that has been created to meet a growing need within the community for a readily available relationship counselling service. Many people have encountered long waiting lists when contacting some other relationship counselling organisations. |
It is the aim of Connect to offer ongoing counselling appointments within a week of the initial request for a meeting with a Connect counsellor. Connect works with many professionally trained counsellors working throughout the South West. Connect's services include the following.
- Counselling, sexual therapy and other services to help with difficulties in marriage or in any adult couple relationship
- Education and Training
Although Connect is unable to offer legal, financial or medical advice. We will however do whatever we can to track down information that may enable us to suggest an alternative source of help.
Our vision for the future
Our vision for the future is to contribute to the building of a culture where individuals are self aware enough to relate to one another with love and understanding, and are therefore able to create families that nourish, foster and enable every member to realise their greatest potential. We believe that secure and emotionally literate families are the building blocks of cohesive communities and a fulfilling safe society.
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John Bradshaw, a well known psychotherapist in America, was once questioned by a reporter following a live television show called “Bradshaw on the Family”. The reporter suggested that the content of the show seemed to propose that a great many families were dysfunctional. Bradshaw retorted; “No I don’t think that many are dysfunctional, they’re ALL dysfunctional”! Sadly, we at Connect believe that Bradshaw was probably correct. The overwhelming majority of families consist of couples who are unable to communicate effectively, negotiate well or manage conflict successfully either between themselves or with their children. They are also largely unaware of the dynamics being played out in their relationships, they experience thought distortions and use coping mechanisms that they have been using since they were children. |
Unfortunately all of this is modeled by their children who grow up to repeat similar ineptitudes and patterns. Worse than that, the poor relationship skills of the majority of couples not only leads to their own relationships breaking down, but they are not capable of creating a close enough relationship with their children which in turn leads to unstable families. Family breakdown is a private tragedy but on a wider scale is also a matter for public concern. The breakdown of families contributes to a wide variety of social problems causing distress for individuals, families and communities. The most influential relationships in families are those between the adults, whether they are together or separated; these affect all family members. |
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We at Connect believe that society can gain enormously if support and education is made available for all people in relationships of all kinds.
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