We are in relationship with everything and it is the quality of those relationships that determine the quality of our lives.

Why relationship matters

We are in relationship with everything and it is the quality of those relationships that determine the quality of our lives.

This begins with the relationship you have with yourself. This can easily be overshadowed by the experiences lived, the stories you tell yourself and the meaning you make. If these stories remain unexplored, there is little room for different perspectives to arise or new relationships to form with the past, present and future.

This is where therapy can play a part; by constructively reflecting or challenging thinking and creating opportunity to awaken to a life more consciously lived. Alternatively, we can be led purely by ours minds and not our own awareness and this awareness is our personal power to claim.

Relationship matters is a therapy service that offers Individual, Couple therapy and Clinical Supervision. It also offers Single-Session Therapy, Six-Session Relationship Enhancement Therapy and Communication Workshops for couples, all with the aim of having conversations that connect and deepen understanding.

At the heart of Relationship matters therapy is the one purpose; to create healthy relating, clear and clean communication.

Therapeutic services

Individual Therapy
Offers space to reflect, heal, and grow. Explore life’s challenges, build self-awareness, and move toward greater balance, confidence, and fulfilment.

Couples Therapy
When meaningful conversation feels impossible, especially with those who matter most, therapy can help you reconnect and rebuild understanding.

 

Single session
This is a ninety-minute stand-alone therapy session designed to focus on one specific issue.

 

Six-session relationship enhancement
This is a six-session program with structure and progression, providing a clear beginning, middle, and end over six 90-minute sessions.

Workshops
The workshops I offer are skill-based and informative, helping couples improve communication, deepen connection, and care for their relationship in practical ways.

 

Reflections

Remember yourself. If you forget, remember yourself. That’s all.

Dr.K. Bradford Brown

The day came when it was more painful for the bud to stay closed than to open

Dr.K. Bradford Brown

We thought we always wanted love-until love came to us. Then we discovered we wanted safety

Dr.K. Bradford Brown

I cannot live without beliefs; the trouble is I have too many unexamined

Dr.K. Bradford Brown

No technique we employ in personal growth has any value unless it affects our relationships

Piero Ferruci

Out beyond ideas of of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field, I will meet you there’

Rumi

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it

Rumi

Life begins not at birth
but with the onslaught of awareness.
Dr. K. Bradford Brown
©2025 Relationship Matters - Lesley Burrows: Registered Psychotherapist UKCP, Recognised Supervisor UKCP MBACP