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Relationship Counselling Knutsford
10 Pool End
WA9 3RE St Helens |
Steve | Relationship counsellor
Relationship counselling Knutsford
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You don’t need perfect words to start.
You can arrive confused, angry, shut down, burnt out, or just tired of the same loop. The work here is simple: get clear, get honest, and get moving, without blame, without drama, without pretending.
How I work
I’m direct, calm, and grounded. I’m not a therapist in a chair while you unravel alone. I’m in the room with you, thinking, questioning, reflecting patterns back, and helping you see the structure of what’s happening.
That can look like:
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naming the pattern you keep repeating
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spotting what you’re protecting, avoiding, or controlling
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separating emotion from interpretation
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finding the leverage point where choice returns
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building a next step you can actually do
Individuals
You get a place to slow down, tell the truth, and understand your own behaviour without reducing yourself to labels. The aim isn’t “cope better”. The aim is orientation.
Couples
I don’t take sides. I work for two individuals and track the dynamics between you. We look at what each of you is doing that keeps the system stuck, and what changes when responsibility becomes real.
Format
Sessions are long-format (90 minutes). You can come once, you can come often, there’s no assumed path, I work around you.
Fit
This is for you if you want clarity, responsibility, and real movement.
It’s not for you if you want soft validation, a referee, or someone to “fix” your partner.
Starting point
If you’re unsure, book an introductory call. No pressure, no obligation, just a human conversation to see if this fits.
Online therapy
Online and telephone counselling for individuals and couples.
Video sessions are via Zoom (no account needed) or Phone Call.
Clear process, straightforward communication, long-format sessions when needed.
Qualifications and registrations
Level 4 Diploma in Person-Centred counselling and registered with the BACP.
Private practice since 2017.
Fully insured.
I work in a grounded, respectful way, with a strong emphasis on clarity, agency, and personal responsibility. My approach is shaped by therapy training, couples work, systems thinking, and years of real client conversations.
Registrations
I offer therapy in
Specialisations
- 1. Communication issues
- 2. Relationship conflict
- 3. Emotional disconnection
- 4. Infidelity & rebuilding trust
- 5. Anxiety & overwhelm
- 6. Self-esteem & confidence
- 7. Boundaries & people-pleasing
- 8. Phone Call Therapy
- 9. Repeating Patterns
Specialisations and Expertises
My focus is clarity-led counselling for individuals and couples who feel stuck in repeating patterns.
Most treated issues
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Communication breakdown (talking in circles, shutting down, escalation, misattunement)
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Relationship conflict (resentment, blame loops, power struggles, “same row, different day”)
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Emotional disconnection (distance, coldness, loneliness in the relationship, loss of intimacy)
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Infidelity & repair (truth, accountability, rebuilding trust, deciding what’s possible)
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Anxiety & overwhelm (rumination, panic, burnout, relationship uncertainty)
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Self-esteem & confidence (self-doubt, shame, approval-seeking, fear of being “too much”)
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Boundaries & people-pleasing (over-functioning, guilt, saying yes when you mean no)
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Phone and video sessions (UK-wide, calm, direct, long-format when needed)
How the work tends to look
I help you understand what’s actually happening beneath the surface, the pattern, the protection, the trigger points, and the role each person plays in keeping the system stuck. The aim is agency: clear insight that turns into a next step you can act on.
Most common issues I support people with:
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Repeating arguments / stuck loops
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Communication breakdown & resentment
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Trust, betrayal, repair (including infidelity)
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Emotional disconnection / intimacy issues
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Anxiety, overwhelm, and relationship uncertainty
Therapies offered
- ✓ Couples counselling
- ✓ Couples therapy
- ✓ Family Dispute Resolution
- ✓ Marriage counselling
- ✓ Online relationship counselling
- ✓ Premarital counselling
- ✓ Relationship Counselling
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Addicted to love
- ✓ Adultery, affair, infidelity
- ✓ Attachment issues
- ✓ Autonomy in relationship
- ✓ Cheating
- ✓ Closed or open relationship
- ✓ Commitment phobia
- ✓ Communication problems
- ✓ Cultural differences
- ✓ Divorce
- ✓ Emotional infidelity
- ✓ Family problems
- ✓ Fear of abandonment
- ✓ I want a relationship
- ✓ Insecure in relationship
- ✓ Intimacy issues
- ✓ Jealousy
- ✓ Love sick
- ✓ Marriage problems
- ✓ Midlife crisis
- ✓ Relationship anxiety
- ✓ Relationship fights
- ✓ Self love
- ✓ Sex addiction
- ✓ Sexual difficulties
Fees
- 20-Minute free introductory
- 90 Minute session via Phone Call = £70
- 90 Minute session via Video = £80
- 90 Minute session In-Person = £90
Concessionary rates and block booking are available on request.
Availability (Opening hours)
| Monday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Tuesday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Wednesday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Thursday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Friday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Saturday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Sunday | from 10am to 8pm |
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Reviews Relationship Counselling Knutsford
Below you will find reviews about Relationship Counselling Knutsford - Steve
Based on 2 reviews
After finding out I had been cheated on he helped me work on my anger and helped my partner work on his shame. We saw him separately for a few sessions and I found this very helpful. After working on our own issues it made it easier to then work together again and find a way to rebuild the trust. Steve gave us so many sign-posts to help us understand the place we were in and ways we could change it. I thank you for treating us both as individuals with different needs. You saved us and we are both so grateful.
We saw Steve to help us deal with issues in our relationship. He was very understanding of both our needs and helped us both to start looking at the real issues that were affecting our relationship. I'm sure we would have broken up without his help. Highly recommended!
- ✓ United Kingdom
- ✓ (Online) Couples counselling
- ✓ Relationship counselling