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• Refresh your friendship- at the core of healthy relationships.

• Better understand  the way you both want things to be,

(Max the pirate and counsellor says this is our treasure. Read his blog about this treasure aka "The pictures in our head".) 

• Finding things in common.

• Identify or develop shared goals.  

• Tools towards healthy conflict- we all have it some time.

• Skills for weathering the tough times well.

Focusing on these aspects can increase your intimacy and strengthen the foundations of your relationship.

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What are our credentials?

• Both of us have training in Choice Theory, Reality Therapy.

• Max was trained in Prepare pre-marriage counselling.

• Max has worked as a counsellor with individuals, couples, children and families for decades; he is still working in this capacity.

• We're well-read in literature concerning intimate relationships, e.g:Getting Together, Staying Together, Eight Lessons for a Happier Marriage, both by William Glasser, Passionate Marriage (this term signifies a committed relationship not the paperwork) by David Schnarch, Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. 

• Bronwyn and Max have both worked as pastors, particularly with people struggling with one, or more, of the three great Australian addictions: drugs, alcohol and gambling.

• Plus, we've been together for 38 years. One of our sayings is  "It's hard enough to live with myself let alone someone else."

• We pro-actively work at connection,

• We've weathered some tough times apart from navigating our relationship; e.g: Bronwyn was widowed at 21 and a single mum of 2 boys, who have Cystic Fibrosis, a life-threatening illness which required a lot of daily care and hospitalisations, our first pregnancy didn't go full term.

• Max married into an instant family.

• Then we had 2 girls & brought up the 4 children.