Central Coast Counselling - Susan Owens

06/11/2025

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One Person’s Courage Can Shift The Relationship

Sometimes it takes just one person to make the first move toward change.
When things feel stuck, disconnected, or tense, waiting for both of you to be ready can feel impossible. But your willingness to take the first step - to reflect, to understand, to communicate differently - can begin to shift everything.

Counselling isn’t about blame. It’s about creating space to see the patterns you’re both caught in, even if your partner isn’t ready to join yet.
Through individual sessions, you can learn how to respond instead of reacting. How to set healthy boundaries, and how to bring calm where there’s tension.

Because change in a relationship doesn’t always start with two people. Sometimes, it starts with one person’s courage to begin.

Relationship Counselling - Change can begin with you.

Take the first step by clicking on the link above for a booking today and start to find your connection again.

05/11/2025

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When Your Feelings Don’t Feel Seen
You open up - hoping for comfort, for understanding - but instead, your partner dismisses, defends, or turns away. Maybe because of past hurts.

Over time you learn to stop trying. You stop communicating your feelings. You shut down.

Counselling helps to slow this cycle - to learn how to listen without fixing, to care without correcting, and to make space for each other’s emotions.

If you are caught in this cycle and would like to reconnect, I can help you. Click on the link above for a booking today.

04/11/2025

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When The “Us” You Knew Feels Different

You look at each other and realize the laughter, closeness, and connection you shared feels different somehow. Life has changed you both - and sometimes change is invisible until it shows in small, aching ways.

You remember the way you used to hold each other, laugh together, and share your inner thoughts. Now, the hands are the same, but the touch feels different. The conversations are the same but the words feel heavier.

Counselling gives you space to explore not just who you were, but who you are now - and how to find each other again in this new version of your relationship.

02/11/2025

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Arguing About Little Things
It’s not really about the dishes, the tone, or who said what.
It’s about feeling unseen, unheard or unimportant.
When small issues turn into big issues, it’s often a sign of deeper hurt beneath the surface.

Counselling helps couples see what’s really happening underneath the noise - and how to reconnect instead of reacting.

Counselling provides a safe place which is not about blame - it’s about creating new ways to connect through listening to understand and validating.

Take the first step to reconnection by clicking on the link above to make a booking today.

01/11/2025

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When Speaking Up Feels Like Walking On Eggshells

It can feel impissible to soeak your heart when every word triggers defensiveness. You want to be heard,but your words cause tension, and the more you try to clarify, the more the cycle repeats.

Counselling is a safe place to express feelings so both people feel heard, understood and validated while learning to reconnect and restore understanding.

To begin your journey back to love, click on the link above to receive a booking today.

01/11/2025

When someone rushes to paint themselves as the victim, be cautious. People with manipulative traits, especially narcissists, are experts at rewriting reality.

They’ll tell their version of events with just enough truth to sound convincing, and just enough lies to destroy your reputation. Always remember: the louder someone tries to prove they’re “the good one,” the more they’re trying to hide.

01/11/2025

01/11/2025

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When Distance Feels Like Rejection
Sometimes what feels like withdrawl from your partner isn’t disinterest, it is them feeling overwhelmed, exhausted or just needing space.

When one partner interprets that distance as rejection, hurt and defensiveness take over, creating the disconnect that one partner fears.

Couples counselling helps you recognise the difference between emotional distance and emotional detachment - rebuilding safety through understanding, not assumption.

Reconnect by seeing what is really happening beneath the surface.

To make a booking today, just click on the link above.

27/10/2025

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You Don’t Have To Hit Breaking Point To Ask For Help.

Couples often wait until their relationship is at breaking point before seeking professional support.

Often one person has been consistently asking for couples therapy but their partner has not been listening, or they make excuses why they don’t need support because they’re too scared to find out what the therapist will say.

Their partner believes they can turn the relationship around themselves, however what they’ve been doing has not been working.

Don’t wait until your relationship hits crisis point. Seeking help early helps you both make sense of what is happening beneath the surface of the issues.

You don’t need to have everything fall apart to seek support.
The most powerful step is reaching out before your relationship falls apart - Before you become flat mates.
Before you become strangers living under the same roof.

If you would like support resolving issues before they escalate, the first step is to click on the link today and make your first booking.
Don’t take the same issues into the new year. Put a stop to the arguments and the misunderstandings and connect with each other again.

25/10/2025

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The Arguments That Never End.
It’s not really about the chores, who washed up last, who forgot to call or even who changed the last dirty nappy!
Behind every conflict lies a deeper message. A lost message of needing to feel heard, seen, valued and appreciated.

Couples counselling helps to find the deeper meaning behind the conflict and teaches the skills of responding in love and curiosity rather than reaction and defence.

With guidance, arguments become opportunities for connection instead of distance, and validation instead of shutting down.

If you find m that your arguments are on repeat, it’s not about winning.
It’s about being seen, heard and understood and that’s where counselling can help with clarity, empathy and trust.

The first step is to click on the link above and receive a booking today!

23/10/2025

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Does your partner feel a long way away though you’re both together in the house?

Do you avoid going to bed later to avoid your partner?

Do you wonder who your partner will be in the morning?

Have you given up communicating with your partner because it just isn’t worth the conflict?

Are there things you wish your partner understood about you?

If this sounds like your relationship and you are missing the way it was in the beginning, let me help you both find your way back.

You might be thinking, “How can my relationship be saved. There is too much hurt and anger.”

It starts with communication and validation. It is important for each person to feel heard while also providing a safe place for each person to listen to their partner.

Communication isn’t just about talking. It is also about listening and then validating your partner’s feelings and perception.

Take the first step today by clicking on the link above to get your booking today.