MARRIAGE AND RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING
Authentic Relationship Therapy offers quality relationship counselling information, advice, and services.
We are the go-to place to find the right kind of companionship, to save or enhance your current relationship or, to salvage all the dignity and connection you once had in your relationship.
We are the go-to place to find the right kind of companionship, to save or enhance your current relationship or, to salvage all the dignity and connection you once had in your relationship.
If you love your partner, but one or both of you are just not as happy as you could be, then you have come to the right place.
Maybe the two of you came together because of a smouldering passion, a chemical attraction. Maybe you saw something in the other person that you wanted or needed to have for yourself. Maybe you both felt that together you were a sensible fit, or that you were “supposed to” get married. Maybe someone else arranged your marriage for you! Or maybe it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
Whatever the reason two people come together, all couples are faced with the struggles of being together and staying together. Living together is so much more complicated than dating, having children and combined financial pressures is so much more complicated that living together. Add the stress, crises and tragedies of everyday life, and being a loving couple can be very challenging indeed! To the point where we begin to ask ourselves “is it really worth it?”
With relationship coaching and counselling you and your partner can make sense of your individual and shared histories, identify areas of difficulty or conflict, develop new strategies to overcome those challenges and negotiate a shared vision for your future. With the help of a trained, knowledgeable and respectful, but challenging, counsellor or coach even the most difficult, emotional and painful topics can be broached, explored and moved forwards from with tailored strategies to ensure that your relationship, and your love, are enduring.
Maybe the two of you came together because of a smouldering passion, a chemical attraction. Maybe you saw something in the other person that you wanted or needed to have for yourself. Maybe you both felt that together you were a sensible fit, or that you were “supposed to” get married. Maybe someone else arranged your marriage for you! Or maybe it just seemed like a good idea at the time.
Whatever the reason two people come together, all couples are faced with the struggles of being together and staying together. Living together is so much more complicated than dating, having children and combined financial pressures is so much more complicated that living together. Add the stress, crises and tragedies of everyday life, and being a loving couple can be very challenging indeed! To the point where we begin to ask ourselves “is it really worth it?”
With relationship coaching and counselling you and your partner can make sense of your individual and shared histories, identify areas of difficulty or conflict, develop new strategies to overcome those challenges and negotiate a shared vision for your future. With the help of a trained, knowledgeable and respectful, but challenging, counsellor or coach even the most difficult, emotional and painful topics can be broached, explored and moved forwards from with tailored strategies to ensure that your relationship, and your love, are enduring.
Relationship Counselling/ Coaching
50 or 90 minutes session
Is your relationship feeling strained, communication faltering, or intimacy diminishing? Every partnership faces challenges, but taking the step towards relationship counselling/coaching can be the pivotal moment that not only saves your relationship but elevates it to new heights.
Individual Counselling/ Coaching
50 or 90 minutes session
Do you find yourself struggling with patterns that hinder your emotional well-being? Individual relationship counselling/coaching offers a unique opportunity for personal growth, self-discovery, and the development of healthier, more fulfilling connections.
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Are you ready to experience the profound positive change you deserve? Imagine a life where your relationships are thriving, communication flows effortlessly, and you're living in harmony with your authentic self. The first step towards this transformation begins with a single consultation for relationship and individual counselling/coaching.
A message from Nigel Polak, Founder of Authentic Relationship Therapy
I value the freedom of human expression in all of its forms. I believe it is important to be aware of the responsibilities we all have to ourselves and to those around us when we choose (or choose not) to express ourselves freely. Consistent with these values, I believe in the importance of living in sustainable partnership with a living earth of which we are all a part.
I combine my skills in coaching, counselling/psychotherapy and conflict resolution in order to facilitate a more meaningful experience of life for all of my clients. I value each client’s emotions as a ‘guidance system’ or compass that can point them in the unique direction that they need to travel to feel meaningful and fulfilled within their own life. Thoughts are then understood as attempts to make sense of, realise or take control of these feelings, and these thoughts can either work with or against the emotions. I believe that each person moves through life within a personalised understanding of what life is all about and what their role is within that life, and that this understanding lies within the wider context of their relationships with other people and with the world around them. I use a wide range of techniques and approaches to assist clients to clarify and make meaning of the whole of their experience.
I graduated from university with degrees in psychology and law, and at first I followed a pathway into legal practice, mostly family law. I soon discovered that while the law was stimulating it did not satisfy me and I was more interested in the helping the real people solve the problems behind legal problems. This took my career in a different direction via retraining in gestalt therapy. Inspired by the approach to Being that underpins gestalt therapy I travelled to the UK to study with world leaders in existential therapy, my passion and true calling. Existential therapy is, in essence, “assisting people to live meaningful and fulfilling lives”. I now work as a counsellor and coach, and teach counselling and existential therapy at the Australian College of Applied Psychology in Melbourne.
I combine my skills in coaching, counselling/psychotherapy and conflict resolution in order to facilitate a more meaningful experience of life for all of my clients. I value each client’s emotions as a ‘guidance system’ or compass that can point them in the unique direction that they need to travel to feel meaningful and fulfilled within their own life. Thoughts are then understood as attempts to make sense of, realise or take control of these feelings, and these thoughts can either work with or against the emotions. I believe that each person moves through life within a personalised understanding of what life is all about and what their role is within that life, and that this understanding lies within the wider context of their relationships with other people and with the world around them. I use a wide range of techniques and approaches to assist clients to clarify and make meaning of the whole of their experience.
I graduated from university with degrees in psychology and law, and at first I followed a pathway into legal practice, mostly family law. I soon discovered that while the law was stimulating it did not satisfy me and I was more interested in the helping the real people solve the problems behind legal problems. This took my career in a different direction via retraining in gestalt therapy. Inspired by the approach to Being that underpins gestalt therapy I travelled to the UK to study with world leaders in existential therapy, my passion and true calling. Existential therapy is, in essence, “assisting people to live meaningful and fulfilling lives”. I now work as a counsellor and coach, and teach counselling and existential therapy at the Australian College of Applied Psychology in Melbourne.
