Couples Therapy for Depression in Manchester

Is your relationship under strain? Is one or both of you feeling depressed? Then Couples Therapy for Depression can help you both.

Many relationships, even the strongest ones, can be impacted by pressures of work, children, intimacy, independence and communication. Leading to anxiety and depression. Couples therapy helps to start the conversation and share strategies to become closer again.

What is Couple Therapy for Depression?

Couple Therapy for Depression is an integrative, behaviourally- based treatment. Helping couples suffering from depression and relationship distress, by using the relationship as a resource to help support the individual and their partner. Based on NICE guidelines, it is an ‘evidence-based’ therapy, as research has shown that this kind of couple therapy works.

How does it work?

Couple therapy helps those who are suffering from depression by reducing the kinds of things that make partners feel alone and distressed, or which push partners apart and make them feel angry with each other. It improves your relationship by helping you both to work together on the things that create unhappiness and to move on from stuck and sometimes hostile patterns of interaction. It helps you to understand each other at an emotional level as well as a practical one (how you feel and what you do). It gives you skills as well as understanding. This can lead to a happier and more fulfilling relationship in which differences between you are not so problematic. This relieves depression which in turn improves your relationship. This positive cycle improves mood and emotional wellbeing.

Length and frequency of therapy

• Face to face sessions or remote, this may vary based on individual need
• 16–20 sessions of couple therapy over a period of six months
• Weekly or fortnightly sessions 50–60 minutes.

If you are interested in Couples Therapy for Depression, you can self-refer on-line or you can ask your GP to refer you via self-help services. They will arrange an initial assessment with you, to guide you towards your therapy treatment.