Introduction
Chapter 1 Beginnings: What are Relationships?
Chapter 2 Beginnings: As the Therapist
Chapter 3 Beginnings: The Therapeutic Journey
Chapter 4 Beginnings: Contracting and Confidentiality
Chapter 5 Beginnings: Assessment and Consent
Chapter 6 Beginnings: Contexts
Chapter 7 Questions: What stops people having the conversations they need to have?
Chapter 8 Questions: When is the problem not the actual problem?
Chapter 9 Middles: Relationships and the space between
Chapter 10 Middles: Starting the conversation
Chapter 11 Middles: Communication
Chapter 12 Middles: Working with anger, rows and disagreements
Chapter 13 Middles: Sex and Intimacy
Chapter 14 Middles: Affairs and other breaches of trust
Chapter 15 Endings: Transitions, separations and ending
Afterword
Biography
Anne Chilton is a couple and relationship therapist with over 40 years’ experience. She is a Senior Accredited Relationship and Psychosexual Therapist and has a lifelong interest in how relationships work.
‘A much needed straight-talking, down-to-earth manual on what therapists actually need to know, and what they need to do, regarding their client's relational presentations, including communication, sexual intimacy, anger, affairs and breaches of trust, as well as working with endings. Anne Chilton offers a thorough guide based on her decades of clinical experience. As such, it is not a theoretical or academic book, instead, it feels like having an intimate moment learning from Anne's vast experience in the field. It is a true gift.’
Silva Neves, author of Sexology: The Basics
