This is a service for people who are worried about their relationship and want to do something about it. You don’t have to be married to take advantage of our service and you certainly don’t have to come as a couple. In fact, its much better for you to come by yourself than to have no help at all. The best time to come is before things have reached a crisis point, but whatever stage your difficulties have reached, our counsellors will be able to offer you help and support.

Please remember that Relate counselling can also be a great source of help and support for individuals who are going through the painful and lonely process of separation or divorce.

What is Relationship Counselling?

Counselling has become a popular form of help in recent years, but, despite this, many people have the wrong idea about what it is and what it can do.

At RPKC, we think that the purpose of counselling is to achieve real and positive changes in our clients’ lives and relationships.

At the beginning of a relationship counselling programme, clients are asked to talk about the difficulties they face and how they feel about them. At this stage a good counsellor will listen sympathetically and impartially and make sure that both partners have a chance to express their feelings and points of view.
Talking through the issues in this way is essential, and may even make clients feel a lot better, but it is actually only a small part of the counselling process. In fact, the real purpose of all this careful listening and exploring is to help clients gain a clear understanding of what is going wrong in their relationship.
This understanding is vital because it is only when you know exactly how and why things have gone wrong that you can make sensible and realistic decisions about how to make them better.

That sounds a bit like common sense: but in reality, making real changes in your relationship can be very difficult and sometimes painful, especially if things have been going steadily wrong for a number of years.

The good news is that if clients have a genuine commitment to change and the courage to make that change happen, counselling can make a huge improvement to the quality of their lives and relationships. But for this to happen, they also need the right kind of counsellor with the right kind of training.

Our counsellors at RPKC have a vast experience of helping people with the kind of relationship difficulties that can lead to separation or divorce. They are especially skilled at working with couples and individuals who are trying to make real changes in their lives and relationships. This means that if you arrange to see one of our counsellors, you can be sure of getting a properly trained counsellor whose work is professional, safe and appropriately supervised.

Costs

Although RPKC is a registered charity and isn’t in the business of making profits for shareholders, we still have to cover our costs if we are to survive.

In practice, this means that we have to ask adult clients to pay towards the cost of their counselling. For relationship and couple counselling the costs are as follows:

• Registration Fee (includes first appointment) £50 *
  

• Subsequent counselling sessions £25 to £60 per session **

Generally, we ask clients to pay as much as they can reasonably afford towards the cost of their counselling- which means that if you can afford it we expect you to pay £60 per session. If, however, you are on a low or average income, we are happy to negotiate a payment that you can afford, and this negotiation generally happens at the end of the first appointment.

* in cases of hardship, the registration fee can be reduced. Please call or email our office to discuss the situation

** please note that, for clients with a Calderdale postcode, the minimum payment for counselling is currently £30 per session

Finally, please note that all payments for adult counselling must be made at least 2 working days’ in advance of the appointment, and that late cancellations may result in the loss of your advance payment. We operate this payment system in order to minimise wasted appointments and to keep our waiting lists as short as possible.

Getting an Appointment

We can normally offer you a first appointment within 2 weeks of your first contacting us. If you would like to get an appointment for some relationship counselling here is what you need to do:

On the phone

• ring the RPKC office most convenient for you (see contact page)
• ask to register as an adult relationship counselling client
• be prepared to tell our member of staff your name, postal address and telephone contact numbers
• be prepared to pay your registration fee over the phone using a debit or credit card.

On-line

• Please fill in the on-line registration form and follow the on-line instructions for making your Registration Fee payment.
• Make sure that your contact details are correct because our office staff will need to contact you in order to confirm your first appointment.

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