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Updated on 14th September 2025

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Couples Therapy and Relationship Counseling Services via Individual Sessions

In Hebden Bridge, or worldwide via “MS Teams” or the telephone system

Hello and welcome to my Couple Relationship Counselling and Psychotherapy Service.

My name is Jim Byrne, and I have a Doctoral degree in Counselling from the University of Manchester (UK); a Master of Education degree from the Open University (UK); and a higher Diploma in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, from Rusland College, Bath (UK).

I am an accredited Fellow of the International Society for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FISPC); and I have more than 26 years’ experience as a Couples Therapist and Relationship Coach/Counsellor.

In the first 15 years of my professional practice, I followed the normal practice of seeing both partners together. Then, because this led to suboptimal results, I switched to only seeing one partner at a time. This has proved to be much more effective.

Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne are a happy couple. — Dr Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne have been happily married since 1986; and happily coupled since 1980.

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Unsolicited client testimonial:

♣ “Dear Jim, I am writing to let you know that we have made it. Although I thought that Gerry (pseudonym) and me would have to split up, six months ago, you certainly helped us to turn our marriage around. … He is so much less pushy and controlling, … and I am much stronger with my personal boundaries. Your boundary pushing exercise is brilliant…”

T.W., Shipley, West Yorkshire. (One double package of my … Enhanced Main Service, for couple relationship problems, plus three follow-up sessions for each partner, to resolve couple conflict, and coercive control issues).

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My current approach is to offer Relationship and Communication Skills Coaching and Counselling to my clients based on the following pattern:

I will begin by asking you, via email, a few orienting questions, so I can get an overview of your marital problem (as you see it!)
Then I will send you between two and four questionnaires, depending on how you answered the orienting questions:
1. One which assesses how your personality was shaped by your early childhood experiences in your parental home;
2. One to assess the level of Adverse Childhood Experiences you may have had;
3. Two to assess your attachment style.
Then we will meet for a 60 minute session, which will be partly informal assessment, and partly therapeutic interventions:
1. The agenda of this meeting will include additional questions about how you met, your current level of satisfaction with your relationship, and additional relevant questions.
After our meeting, I will spend two or three hours analysing the results of your questionnaires, and integrating that information with what I learned from meeting you – face-to-face in Hebden Bridge, or over *MS Teams*, or over the telephone.
Then I will write a detailed analytical report about:
1. What happened at our meeting;
2. Your questionnaire results;
3. Observations and reflections;
4. Forming my conclusions
5. And a list of solution-bearing documents (two or three) to be sent with this report, or phased over a month or two, to avoid overloading you with “homework”. (A significant part of this process includes doing the homework!)
If you want additional follow-up meetings, that can be arranged to suit your needs.

My fee for this service is a mere £360.00 GBP.

Timely action is an important part of saving faltering relationships. The longer you let the relationship sag and decline, the harder it is to recover it.

Act today. Contact me to make an appointment, and I will respond with my list of initial questions.

Email me: Dr Jim Byrne

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♣ “Hi Jim, Thanks for your reports and follow-up documents. Since I’ve been doing your journalling exercises, I’ve become more committed to taking action to change myself and my life, and have followed up some extra inputs. I now understand my personality much better, and the triggers that prompt me to make the wrong responses in relationships, and so I think I have enough to work on for the moment. Thank you for your very real help with all of this”.

V.C., Humberside. (One package of my … Enhanced Main Service).

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Jim and Renata at a family event

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Clearly, this process will only work for individuals who learn well from reading and writing – (and that in the English language) – in addition to counselling conversation.

If this sounds like the kind of process you would like to explore, with a view to building a better relationship future for yourself, then please contact me today:

Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling

Email: Dr Jim’s Email Address

Or phone me on: 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK).

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Unsolicited couples therapy testimonial

♣ “Hi Jim, At last I’ve … had the breakthrough that I was seeking. And it came as a result of allowing the grief into my awareness and accepting it – as you suggested – instead of pushing it away. … The anger and hurt and sadness have all gone. … I feel happy, and at last I’ve let go of my ex-partner. Thank you”.

A.G.A., Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. (Six sessions of F2F counselling for relationship problems).

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For more information, and/or to commence the process, please contact me today:

Doctor Jim Byrne, Doctor Counselling,

at ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services, Hebden Bridge, and all over the world via Skype and the telephone system.

Email to: Dr Jim’s Email Address

Or phone me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

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Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne on their wedding day, in April 1986

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♣ “Dear Jim, … Peter and I are getting along so much better since we had our individual meetings with you, and read your reports. We seem to be much more conscious in the way we relate to each other! … Thank you for your effective help…”

S.N, (for S.N. and P.N.). Rochdale, Lancs. (After two individual face to face meetings and the first chunk of each individual report were sent).

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Extract from my 18 Principles of Happy Couple Relationships

A marriage (or marriage-like relationship) is a “house” that is built every day. What actions did you consciously take to build the “house” of your marriage today?

cuddling couple wrapped in a carpet — Photo from Pexels.com

When you wake up in the morning, remind yourself that all you have are ‘the foundations’ of a relationship. You now have to build that relationship all over again; every single day. The house of your relationship is never complete. You can never ‘clock off’.

A relationship is not something you HAVE, it is something you DO! It’s a process rather than a thing.

If you go to sleep in your relationship, you will wake up to find it has collapsed from want of repair.

Having destructive arguments with your partner about who is right and who is wrong, and especially who is ‘top dog’ and who is ‘under dog’, is equivalent to trying to polish the walls of your “house” with sledge hammers! You will wreck it in no time. So I ask again:

What actions did you consciously take today to build the “house” of your relationship?

What actions did you take to stop swinging the wrecking ball against the walls of your relationship?

(End of extract from my Eighteen Principles of Happy Couple Relationships.)

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Give yourself a present: Book your first session of Relationship Counselling today. Email me today: Dr Jim’s email address.

Or phone me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)

Or call 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK)

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Jim and Renata, after 39 years of happy marriage, and 44 years as a couple

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Staying together or splitting amicably

Of course, some couples will decide that the evidence of significant incompatibilities warrants a separation/divorce, rather than a repairing/rebuilding of their relationship; but armed with my reports they are more likely to achieve an amicable separation, which avoids exorbitant legal fees; and also sidesteps the heartache of protracted angry recriminations.

Whether you end up rebuilding your relationship, or taking it apart in a civilized, loving manner, which minimizes stress for all the parties involved (including any children!), I would consider either outcome to be a step up from the often hateful, vengeful, recriminatory splits that make life miserable for everybody.

Contact me today if you want my help…

If you’d like me to help you with your couple relationship, then please email me at: Dr Jim’s email address.***

Or phone me on 01422 843 629, to set up a pencilled-in appointment (for yourself. Your partner should contact me separately, if they also want to consult me).

Or 44 1422 843 629 from outside the UK.

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For more information about me, please go to About Dr Jim Byrne.***

Or take a look at a collection of unsolicited testimonials that were sent to me by former and/or current clients.***

Dr Jim Byrne

Doctor of Counselling

ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services

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♣ Verbal feedback: “Every time we come to see you, our relationship gets better and better. We did not expect this. We have now reached a kind of comfortable plateau, and we don’t know if things will get any better. But we have talked about it, and we don’t know what you said or what you did to help us to get to this much nicer place in our relationship”.

Dr.A.D, North Halifax, West Yorkshire. UK. (Five sessions of face to face couples therapy).

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natajim-coaching-counselling — **Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne, happily married since 1986 – and happily coupled since 1980. (And we went through couples therapy together in 1984!)**

If you think it would be difficult to get your partner to participate in couples therapy (in separate sessions!), then please read the following advice on the Gottman Institute website: 5 Steps to Inspire Your Partner to Join You in Attending Couples Therapy.***