Couples, Marriage and Relationship Counselling in Barnstaple
Support for couples facing communication breakdown, separation, or uncertainty.
Available in person in or online.
The 3 main types of relationship counselling I can provide:
Relationship Counselling
Relationship Recovery After a Breakup
Relationship Counselling
For couples who want to strengthen their connection, calm conflict, and understand each other more deeply, relationship counselling offers a safe and structured space for you and your partner.
Using Gottman-informed approaches, we explore patterns of:
- Communication
- Repairing emotional injuries
- Rebuilding trust
- Appreciation
- Closeness and int
For couples who want to strengthen their connection, calm conflict, and understand each other more deeply, relationship counselling offers a safe and structured space for you and your partner.
Using Gottman-informed approaches, we explore patterns of:
- Communication
- Repairing emotional injuries
- Rebuilding trust
- Appreciation
- Closeness and intimacy.
Whether you’re navigating a difficult chapter, recovering from a rupture, or simply wanting to reconnect and grow together, we take things gently at your pace, creating space for understanding, compassion, and new ways of relating.
Discernment Counselling
Relationship Recovery After a Breakup
Relationship Counselling
When one partner is unsure about staying in the relationship and the other wants to keep trying, discernment counselling offers a calm, structured space to pause and reflect before making big decisions.
Together we explore what’s been happening beneath the surface, understand each partner’s perspective, and look at the patterns that have
When one partner is unsure about staying in the relationship and the other wants to keep trying, discernment counselling offers a calm, structured space to pause and reflect before making big decisions.
Together we explore what’s been happening beneath the surface, understand each partner’s perspective, and look at the patterns that have brought you to this point.
The aim isn’t always to fix the relationship in these sessions but to help you gain clarity about the best next step; whether that’s rebuilding the relationship, or separating respectfully with honesty and confidence.
Relationship Recovery After a Breakup
Relationship Recovery After a Breakup
Relationship Recovery After a Breakup
The end of a relationship can leave you feeling disoriented, depleted, or unsure of who you are without it.
Whether the separation was sudden or long-anticipated, the emotional impact can ripple through your confidence, sense of self, and future plans.
This work offers a calm, supportive space to make sense of what’s happened, process the
The end of a relationship can leave you feeling disoriented, depleted, or unsure of who you are without it.
Whether the separation was sudden or long-anticipated, the emotional impact can ripple through your confidence, sense of self, and future plans.
This work offers a calm, supportive space to make sense of what’s happened, process the loss, and begin rebuilding with clarity and intention.
While counselling can’t take away the pain of a breakup, it can help you understand your experience, regain emotional steadiness, and shape a future that feels meaningful and self-directed.
Penny Lippett / penny for your thoughts counselling
My clients report that they start feeling better after the first session.
I’m a qualified therapist and a registered member of the BACP, with years of experience providing counselling services to individuals and couples navigating some of the most difficult chapters of their lives.
My approach is warm, practical, and grounded. I help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface, recognise the patterns that leave you feeling stuck, and begin to reclaim the steadiness and connection you’ve been longing for.
Whether you are struggling to communicate, facing separation or recovering from a relationship breakdown. Because the right relationship support can bring clarity and calm faster than you think.
I work with people who need a place to slow down, talk things through, make sense of what’s happening, and feel more like themselves again. My style is active, present, and engaged; I don’t sit back and simply nod. I’m here with you. I help you untangle the truth, understand the dynamics underneath, and find clearer, more hopeful ways forward, whether you come as an individual or as a couple seeking support.
Testimonial:
"We always look forward to our sessions with Penny...
It was the one place we could talk uninterrupted by the kids or family. The balance of our opinions and views between us both was handled well by Penny, she managed to help us resolve our problems.
We are feeling confident for the future.
I would recommend Penny."
penny for your thoughts counselling : How I Can Help
Whatever you're facing, we work at your pace, with warmth, clarity, and no judgement.
Here are some of the issues I regularly support people with:
Relationship Support
- Communication difficulties
- Break-up, separation, or divorce
- Attachment patterns and relational wounds
- Communication difficulties within couples
- Relationship ambivalence - when one partner is leaning in, and the other is leaning out
- Intimacy issues or lack of closeness in relationships
- Emotional infidelity
- Disconnection
- And more…
Calming office space located in Barnstaple
