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How to Know its Time to Walk Away from A Relationship
HOW TO KNOW IT’S TIME TO WALK AWAY FROM A RELATIONSHIP April 20, 2017 by Annie Gurton, Imago Relationship Therapist from Sydney's Northern Beaches If you know what a healthy relationship looks and feels like, its reasonably easy to know when its time to call a halt to...
How to Navigate an Overbearing Mother-in-Law
HOW TO NAVIGATE AN OVERBEARING MOTHER-IN-LAW by Annie Gurton, Imago Relationship Therapist from Sydney's Northern Beaches For most of us, having a mother-in-law is a blessing. She is someone kind and helpful, never intrusive, always supportive. Sadly, some find...
How To Communicate Your Sexual Needs and Desires
HOW TO COMMUNICATE YOUR SEXUAL NEEDS AND DESIRES TO YOUR PARTNER by Annie Gurton, Imago Couples Counsellor from Sydney's Northern Beaches. There is a saying in couples therapy that if sex is right, then everything is right, but if sex is wrong then nothing else can be...
How To Stop Self-Sabotaging Your Relationship
HOW TO STOP SELF-SABOTAGING YOUR RELATIONSHIP by Annie Gurton, Imago Couples Relationship Counsellor on Sydney's Northern Beaches If you go into a relationship convinced that its not going to last, its hardly surprising that you ensure that it fails. No-one can be...
Shift Workers Making Time For Each Other
SHIFT WORKERS? HOW TO MAKE TIME FOR EACH OTHER AND YOUR RELATIONSHIP by Annie Gurton, Imago Relationship Therapist from Sydney's Northern Beaches It can be difficult enough for couples to find enough quality time together but doubly hard if one or both are shift...
How To Move On After An Affair
HOW TO MOVE ON AFTER AN AFFAIR by Annie Gurton, Couples Counsellor from Sydney's Northern Beaches There are few things more devastating to a relationship than an affair. The breach of trust is catastrophic, and many relationships do not recover. There is also the fact...
Dealing With Cultural Differences in Relationships
DEALING WITH CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN RELATIONSHIPS by Annie Gurton, Imago Couples Counsellor on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Love does not recognise skin colour, social backgrounds or cultural boundaries. It is notoriously random and, of course, blind. And when we fall...
How To Recover From The Death of a Partner
HOW TO RECOVER FROM THE DEATH OF A PARTNER by Annie Gurton, Couples Counsellor on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Death of your partner is up there with the most traumatic things that could ever happen to you. It is devastating, and getting life back on track can take a...
Dealing With Age Differences In A Relationship
DEALING WITH AGE DIFFERENCES IN A RELATIONSHIP by Couples Counsellor Annie Gurton, from Sydney's Northern Beaches They say that when you really love someone, age, distance, height and weight are really just numbers. But when it comes to relationships, having a big age...
How To Stand Up To A Critical Partner
HOW TO STAND UP TO A CRITICAL PARTNER by Couples Counsellor Annie Gurton, on Sydney's Northern Beaches Criticism is like battery acid in a relationship – extremely caustic and powerfully, permanently damaging. For many women with good levels of self-esteem, the first...
Why We Fall In Love.
WHY WE FALL IN LOVE by Imago Couples Counsellor Annie Gurton, from Sydney's Northern Beaches. You may think its obvious why we fall in love: to bond us to our partner, you might say, so that we have a connection strong enough to endure the slings and arrows of life,...
Moving From Conflict to Connection
MOVING FROM CONFLICT TO CONNECTION by Couples Counsellor Annie Gurton, from Sydney's Northern Beaches. Many people avoid conflict. In fact most people believe that conflict is destructive and unhealthy, and to be ducked or sidelined at all costs. But conflict is a...
The 10 Signs You’re In a Happy Relationship
THE 10 SIGNS YOU’RE IN A HAPPY RELATIONSHIP by Couples Counsellor Annie Gurton in Northern Beaches, Sydney. Congratulations! Well done! You’re in a relationship. You’re in the best place to be. When you’re in a relationship, you are in the right place to heal yourself...
How Long Should Therapy Last?
How Long Should Therapy Last? BY ANNIE GURTON, MA MAY 20, 2015 UPDATED MAY 20, 2015 Annie Gurton uses a mixed toolbox of psychotherapeutic techniques, theories and approaches which include elements of classical Rogerian Person-Centred, Human Givens, Freudian,...
The dangers of US-style beauty pageants
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How to talk to someone who is depressed.
With one in five Australians experiencing mental health issues at some point in their lives, its almost inevitable that you will know one. But if someone close to you is depressed, how will you know and what will you do? The conversation surrounding mental health...
The Emotional Fallout of Co-Parenting
The Emotional Fallout of Co-parenting When parents separate and divorce, they often think that they are being fair if they agree to share the parenting of their children 50/50. Many courts support the decision, and give a nod of approval if the children spend equal...
Conscious Uncoupling and the Benefits for Children.
Conscious Uncoupling and the benefits for the children There is hardly anything worse for children, except death, than having their parents separate. In playgrounds across the country, those words, ‘Mum and Dad are getting a divorce but they say its not my...