Brain injury services rarely focus on the rehabilitation of love or emotional connection between partners following a brain injury. However this can be one of the most significant aspect of change in people’s lives post injury, and cause distress for one or both partners. People can seem changed or a stranger to each other within a relationship, a sense that can start to emerge after the immediate physical recovery of a brain injury has taken place. Where it may have been one’s partner that would be turned to as a source of comfort and emotional security when dealing with difficult feelings, it may now feel that it is they are no longer able to do this for you, or it may even feel that it is your partner that is the cause of your distress.
I am trained in Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and have been researching the unique value of this approach to supporting couples following brain injury. This work can selectively enhance the emotional connection and bond between partners following brain injury. I am also keen to work directly on issues around physical intimacy and the sexual relationship, when preliminary work has established an increased sense of emotional safety in the relationship.
I am trained in Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and have been researching the unique value of this approach to supporting couples following brain injury. This work can selectively enhance the emotional connection and bond between partners following brain injury. I am also keen to work directly on issues around physical intimacy and the sexual relationship, when preliminary work has established an increased sense of emotional safety in the relationship.