About Relate

Everything we do is aimed at supporting healthy, positive & balanced relationships. Young or old, in a relationship or single, as a family, as a couple or an individual, if it is a relationship problem - we can help.

Perhaps you find that you and your partner keep having the same old arguments. We can show you how to break the cycle. Does talking to your teenager feel like talking to a brick wall? We can help you have a two way conversation. Maybe you would like to be able to be more assertive at work. We can help to give you the confidence you need to start standing up for yourself.

Relationships are special - Relate can help you keep them that way.

Relate is the UK’s largest provider of relationship, family counselling and sex therapy. Relate has a team of experienced relationship counsellors and sex therapists. We work with thousands of people each year and although each person and couple we see is unique, the level of experience and training that we have means that we are well equipped to help you.

We like to work with clients face to face and ideally with both partners together, but again we appreciate that this might present a problem for some people.

If you have any questions, then please do not hesitate to contact us or alternatively have a look at our frequently asked questions (FAQs).

• Relate’s role is to help build better couple relationships
• To enhance the quality of couple and parental family relationships
• To help relationships and marriages withstand the pressures leading to breakdown
• To limit the damage that commonly accompanies failing relationships, separation and divorce and increase the prospect of subsequent relationships succeeding.
• Relate aims to deliver its services with cultural sensitivity and without discrimination

• An individual’s physical well-being and emotional and mental health benefit from a committed relationship
• Children thrive in families where relationships are positive and free from destructive conflict
• People gain from an understanding of their sexuality

All practitioners abide by the code of ethics of:

• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
• British Association of Sexual and Relationship Therapy
• Association for Family Therapy