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My Basic Couples Therapy Service
In Hebden Bridge, or anywhere in the world via Skype or the telephone system
Hello and welcome to this page of information about my Basic Couples Therapy service.
My name is Jim Byrne. I have a doctoral degree in counselling; an MA in education; a diploma in counselling psychology and psychotherapy; and two certificates in RE&CBT. I am a fellow member of the ISPC; and I have more than 25 years of experience in counselling and therapy.
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I have been refining my approach to helping individuals to improve their couple relationships, for more than 25 years.
In recent years, I developed the practice of only seeing one partner at a time. I found that this is much more productive than trying to referee a warring couple – or a sulking couple!
So, if you want my help with your own couple relationship, then I would be happy to meet with you (on your own) to work in the following way:
– Firstly, (before we meet), I would ask you to complete two (or three) questionnaires, which will give me some helpful information about the nature of your problems.
(Those questionnaires will not explore your personality traits, nor your childhood development, nor your current lifestyle factors which could be affecting your relationship situation. If you want to explore any of those areas, you need to sign up for my Couples Therapy Optimal Service*** [which is a form of my Enhanced Main Service, which is much more expensive than this Basic Couples Therapy Service].)
– Secondly, I will meet with you, (face to face in Hebden Bridge; or over Skype or the telephone system), on your own (and not with your partner!), for a 60-minute meeting, to discuss your couple relationship, and why it is not satisfactory from your perspective.
– Thirdly, I will reflect upon our meeting, and the results of the two (or three) questionnaires, and then I will write a brief report, summing up what I have learned about you and your couple relationship problem(s).
– Fourthly, I will send you two (or three) follow-up documents, which contain the kinds of knowledge and skills that you need to master in order to overcome the problem(s) that we discussed.
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Fees for this service
This Basic Couples Therapy Service currently costs just £250.00 GBP. Your fee must be paid before I send you the questionnaires. And once you’ve completed the questionnaires, we can find a mutually agreeable meeting date and time.
(This service includes the need to read follow-up documents, so that a certain level of comfort with learning from written texts is required!)
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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♣ “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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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 phone me on 01422 843 629, to set up a pencilled-in appointment (for yourself, and/or your partner).
Or 44 1422 843 629 from outside the UK.
Or email me at Dr Jim Byrne
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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If you think it would be difficult to get your partner to participate in couples therapy, then please read the following advice on the Gottman Institute website: 5 Steps to Inspire Your Partner to Join You in Attending Couples Therapy.***
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# Dr Jim Byrne’s Counselling and Psychotherapy Division
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# My Optimum (or Enhanced) Couples Therapy Service
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# Renata Taylor-Byrne’s Coaching/Counselling Division
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# Books that change lives by growing the individual: ABC Bookstore Online UK
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ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy, Hebden Bridge 