Yes. We offer in-person sessions in Clifton, Bristol. Sessions are 90 minutes and held in a fully confidential, clinically appropriate setting close to the city centre.

Yes. We work with couples in Stroud alongside our Bristol and online practice. If you're based in Gloucestershire, we can see you locally.

Yes, and for many couples it's the more practical option. Online sessions follow the same 90-minute structure via secure video call and are available to couples anywhere in the UK. The quality of the work is the same.

Our core offering. Four 90-minute sessions — two joint, two individual — structured to map your relationship dynamic, give each partner genuine space to be heard, and bring everything together into clear, agreed changes. It's designed to produce meaningful progress in a contained period of time, without open-ended commitment.

A single 90-minute session, bookable when you need it. For couples who have completed a package and want to stay ahead of things — a new pressure, a familiar pattern resurfacing, a conversation that keeps stalling. No package required, no open-ended commitment.

A single 90-minute session designed to be booked every six or twelve months once your relationship is stable. We review your communication patterns, check in on shared goals, and name anything that needs attention — before small misalignments become significant ones. Maintenance, not repair.

The additional time matters. It allows the session to move past the surface of a problem and into the pattern underneath it. Depending on where you are in the work, we might map your recurring cycle, explore one partner's history and responses, or work through a specific difficulty together. Nothing is rushed, and nothing important gets cut short.

Both — and that's deliberate. The individual sessions within the Foundation Package give each partner genuine depth and space to speak freely. But there are no secrets held that undermine the relationship. Every part of the work, including the individual sessions, serves the partnership.

Open-ended counselling can drift. A structured approach means each stage has a clear purpose, progress is visible, and you're not paying indefinitely without a sense of direction. Most couples notice meaningful change within the Foundation Package — and know what they're working towards throughout.

No. Our role is to understand both partners' experience and help each of you understand the other's — not to adjudicate who is right. Couples work that takes sides isn't couples work.

The Foundation Package is priced as a complete block. Individual ongoing sessions and the Relationship MOT are £145 each. Full pricing is on the services page.

Yes. Bristol Relationships is led by a BACP-accredited counsellor with over 15 years of clinical experience, including specialist work with couples. Accreditation means your counsellor has met rigorous standards for training, practice, and ongoing professional development. All Bristol Relationships Counsellors will always be accreditted.

Because effective couples counselling depends on genuine neutrality — and that neutrality cannot survive once a counsellor has become one partner's individual therapist. For that reason, if the relationship ends, we will not work individually with either person, nor support either partner within any future relationship.

This isn't a withdrawal of support. It's what makes the support trustworthy while the work is happening. When both partners know their counsellor holds no alliance with either individual and no stake in any particular outcome, the work has a different quality. That's what this policy protects.

It's more common than you might think. Reluctance often reflects anxiety about the process — uncertainty about what will be said, what will be uncovered, whether it's safe. An initial conversation, with no obligation to commit, is usually enough to answer the questions creating that hesitation. We'd rather you asked than didn't come.

Use the contact form or email us to arrange a brief initial call. This isn't an assessment — it's a chance to ask questions and get a sense of whether this feels like the right fit before committing to anything.