#talkrelationships highlights the need to break the taboo about relationship help following YouGov survey results

Parents as Partners makes Children & Young People Now Awards 2017

shortlist for Family Support 

Tavistock Relationships’ programme of work delivering help for couples with relationship and parenting challenges has been recognised through a nomination from the panel of a major annual awards in the children and families arena.

Project via partnership with relationship support sector and research bodies provides articles, signposted help for the public and practitioners

Visitors to the Tavistock Relationships website will benefit from an entire new section of content, which provides information and articles about the issues surrounding online infidelity.

Role of Social Media in Sexual Anxiety within Couples Analysed by Our Expert in Response to New Research

Marian O'Connor of Tavistock Relaitonships has been cited by leading 'tech' website Alphr, along with other third sector organisations and academics.

CEO offers thoughts on family, parents and weddings from couple therapy viewpoint 

Parenting programme helped change couple’s relationship with each other and children

Our evidence based parenting and relationship programme, Parents as Partners, has been featured in the Hartlepool Mail, in the form of the story of a couple who attended a group, with heart warming results.

Key US Psychoanalytic lectures from Tavistock Relationship staff compiled to help trainees, couple psychotherapists, counsellors, marriage and family therapists

New Course, Certificate in the Study of the Couple Relationship, provides expansion outside of London

Pictured above is CEO Andrew Balfour after he and Liz Salter (our Bristol-based Couple Psychotherapist) opened the first session of Tavistock Relationships’ new professional training qualification, which is being delivered in Bristol.

Accreditation welcomed by CEO Andrew Balfour as a 'major commitment to fairness' 

Tavistock Relationships has been confirmed as a Living Wage employer, receiving certification from the Living Wage Foundation (LWF).

Practitioner training, couple therapy for depression and affordable relationship support amongst the key topics asked of new government

The Relationships Alliance, a group of relationship support charities consisting of Relate, OnePlusOne, Tavistock Relationships and Marriage Care, has just published a document outlining seven policy priorities that should be addressed by the elected government. 

Tavistock Relationships’ staff visit Europe & China to talk about and teach relationship skills and psychotherapy.

The last few weeks have seen a number of important activities by our faculty members, touring three key international events, seeking and participating in professional exchanges designed to raise the awareness of couple therapy methods and techniques.

Video features Sabah Khan exploring how to become a psychotherapist and going on to work at Tavistock Relationships

CEO Andrew Balfour examines the potential implications for divorce and separation in the UK

CEO quoted on how therapy can help and the effect of couple conflict on children

"Why couple relationships are difficult but why they matter“ video from one of our most renowned Couple Psychotherapists

Our plans for helping couple relationships and parenting with new training

A blog by Richard Meier

In her January speech on mental health, the Prime Minister announced that the Government would be providing mental health first aid training to all secondary schools, with a commitment to train at least one teacher in every secondary school in mental health first aid by 2019.

The Cowans Blog: Success of Parenting & Relationship Support

(Part 2 of 2) The development of Parents as Partners in the U.K. has been fascinating for us to witness. We’ve found that in both the U.K. and the U.S., parenting programmes are typically attended by mothers, with little attention paid to fathers or the relationship between the parents.

How Parents as Partners is helping couples communicate and benefitting their children 

(Part 1 of 2) Professors Philip and Carolyn Cowan reflect on their upcoming visit to England, where they will meet with the staff of Tavistock Relationships, family service providers from around the U.K., and those responsible for family policy in the government and local authorities.

Organisation praised for its work helping relationships, parents and children

The value of counselling and psychotherapy and the help it provides for couples and children was highlighted today in Parliament in a speech by the Rt. Hon. Caroline Nokes MP.

The first few months of Tavistock Relationships’ new Online Therapy Service have gone well