Blake Anderson Counselling and Therapy

Helping you with your relationship
Many couples having difficulty in their relationship experience patterns of conflict and negative feelings that repeat over and over. These patterns if left untreated become distressing and erode the goodwill each person has toward the other. Over time criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling begin to take hold and a negative cycle of communication becomes the predominant way couples try and solve their issues. Often the only way out of this cycle is to seek professional help. It’s crucial that the negative pattern is changed so that better communication and connection can restore the goodwill in the relationship.

Symptoms of a relationship in trouble:

Criticism – attacking your partner’s character, trying to make yourself right and them wrong.
Defensiveness – seeing yourself as the victim, making excuses, not listening.
Expressions of contempt – attacking the other through sarcasm, abuse, body language such as sneering or rolling the eyes.
Stonewalling – withdrawing through silence, monosyllabic answers, or moving away.



Blake Anderson Counselling & Therapy - About

I am an Emotionally Focused counsellor and therapist. I have been practicing for over ten years working with individuals and couples in an effort to help them feel better about themselves and each other. I specialise in providing Counselling & Psychotherapy to people wanting relief, wanting to feel better and wanting real change.
In our sessions together we will not just talk about change – you will learn how to change. My philosophy, and what separates my services from others, is that a person’s learning has to be embodied to stick – that a person needs a real experience of change to be able to confidently take that change with them. It is this experience that I am committed to offering my clients.