Sean Delaney

Marriage and long-term relationships are inherently complicated and can go wrong for a variety of reasons: affairs, betrayals, resentments, attachment issues, financial pressures, parenting styles to name just a few. Because of these pressures, many couples will fail to communicate or show love, however, for most these are symptoms rather than skills failures: it’s not that you can’t talk or be tender, it is that such behaviour is blocked. Therefore, to resolve the issue we must explore the original reasons that drives the disconnection, otherwise we just keep going round in circles.

Sean Delaney is the author of “15 Reason It’s Not Working: A Pattern-based Guide to Relationship Disharmony” and has over twenty-five years' experience working as a psychotherapist and educator. He has studied psychology at Edinburgh University, holds a Masters in Psychotherapy and Diplomas in both Humanistic Integrative Counselling and CBT.

And does any of this matter? Probably not. Therapy, like so many things, is all about the relationship. Either we meet up and you get a sense we can work together, get a sense of some connection or you don't.