Relate Cambridgeshire – Relationship Counselling

What to expect

To register your interest in counselling with Relate by calling or by sending an email. Once registered, you will be offered an appointment with an experienced counsellor but this is not a counselling session. It is an opportunity for the counsellor to talk to you about your situation and collect some background information in order to assess whether Relate’s services will be helpful to you. This appointment lasts up to 50 minutes. If, at the end of the session, you and the counsellor agree ongoing counselling will be helpful, the next steps will be explained.

Relate offers face-to-face counselling sessions in Cambridge or Huntingdon. Online counselling can be accessed from anywhere.

More information

Relate offers the following services:

• Personal Counselling – short term counselling service for individuals meets a diverse range of emotional and psychological needs that can be addressed through one to one therapeutic support. Find out more here.
• Relationship Counselling – counselling for you and your partner or for you on your own. You do not have to be married or civil partnered to this service. They aim to help if you are having difficulties and want to work them out, if you want to separate, or even if your relationship has ended. Find out more here.
• Family Counselling – is a service for anyone you define as your family. With you they would hope to find the strengths in your family life, as well as preferred ways of interacting which will build on those strengths. Find out more here.
• Children & Young People’s Counselling – support to children (5-12 years) and young people (13-18 years) who are adversely affected by traumatic life circumstances, including family change or breakdown, loss or bereavement, or other social or environmental difficulties with which they feel they require additional help. Find out more here.
• Sex Therapy – Psychosexual therapy can be useful for many couples who are experiencing sexual difficulties, providing they have a steady relationship and ideally attend the sessions together. You do not have to be married or in a civil partnership. If a person in a relationship enquires about this service, but their partner doesn’t want to participate in sessions, Relate is only able to offer an assessment for the person enquiring for ethical and safety reasons. The counsellor would be able to confirm how is best to proceed after the assessment has been completed. Find out more here.
• Sexual Compulsive Behaviour Counselling – individual therapy for the treatment of sex addiction and sexually compulsive behaviour. Find out more here.
• Relate 4 Parents Counselling – a service offering support and information to any parent, whether you are living together with your children, or you are a single parent, a step-parent, separating or separated parent.  The only criteria is that you wish to focus on the needs of your child and are willing to collaborate to improve your relationship with them. This service is delivered in one session but if you and the counsellor agree that further sessions would be helpful we may be able to offer these. Find out more here.
• Autism Relationship Counselling – relationship support for couples where one or both may be affected by Autism.
• One Session Therapy – this is a new service and is ideal for individuals or couples who can identify one specific skill they want to develop or a problem they want to work which may not need several sessions. Find out more here.
• Check-in Service – Sometimes it helps to know that once you have completed your counselling you can come back and talk to your counsellor again. This service gives you an opportunity, in one or two-one off sessions, to remind yourself of important conversations you had in counselling or refresh your memory about strategies that you found helpful; or perhaps revisit aspects of your difficulties that may need attention. Find out more here.

Relate charges a fee for counselling sessions. However, subject to qualifying criteria, you may be eligible for a discounted rate. Full details are on the website, or ring and speak to a member of staff. Relate’s website also has details of other sources of free counselling support.