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Research shows that relationship counselling helps unhappy marriages and relationships by reducing stress and changing negative behaviours. Counselling also impacts positively on children, the extended family, employers and the wider community. New research shows that good relationships between parents are crucial for children's development. Children do better at home and at school when their parents' relationship is healthy. This is true even although the parents may be separated. SMC's marriage and relationship counselling for couples and individuals enables people to build and sustain healthy relationships.
 
Scottish Marriage Care's statistics highlight that communication breakdown is the most common reason for clients seeking counselling, with 69% of clients citing this as a major issue in their relationship. Communication issues can take a variety of forms, with some couples unable to discuss their difficulties, for example issues around sex or power. Others, however, can find themselves continually arguing over the same things and are unable to resolve the conflict until they've dealt with the underlying issues.

Relationship counselling can help couples by offering practical advice on how to improve communication and manage potential arguments. People who go to relationship counselling feel better about themselves afterwards and tend to develop more sharing and affectionate relationships. Counselling improves relationship satisfaction equally well for both men and women and all social backgrounds. Importantly, counselling helps unhappy relationships quickly, with clients attending an average of just four sessions.

Clients come for counselling at all ages and stages in their relationships, there is no common ‘crisis point.’ Although research does show that many couples have had relationship difficulties for up to seven years before they seek help. The damage caused by bitter relationships can impact not only the individuals but their also families and the wider community too. Relationship distress can be a long-lasting, difficult time for the adults, children and wider family too.
 
Chief Executive, Mary Toner said:
 
"Counselling can help couples to explore the issues in their relationship, so that they are able to come to a reflective decision about how to work through these. This has a positive impact on all areas of a person's life."
 
 
Relationships can be helped at an early stage or when they have drastically deteriorated. Damaged relationships do not always need to end in separation, divorce or acrimony. Less than one fifth of clients report that their relationship has ended following counselling.  With the right help from relationship counselling services, couples can thrive individually, as can the children and the wider family.
 
In addition relationship counselling also reduces work absenteeism, improves productivity and enables couples/individuals to take on new skills and knowledge through the counselling process.
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