Keeping the Connection: Maintaining an Intimate Couple Relationship at End of Life

£30.00

This self-access class looks at how emotional and physical intimacy can be challenged and supported in the face of illness and end of life.

3 hours CPD

The training explores a range of important issues for therapists and others working with those facing end of life.  Key topics addressed include:

  • How to help heal ruptures.
  • Understanding how attachment issues can surface or resurface within the relationship.
  • Challenges for partners to come to terms with imminent loss and change.
  • How the couple relationship can be derailed by grief and fear.
  • How service users can be supported to listen to each other and communicate well.

About the Trainer

Ruth Hazelton, is a senior Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist who works in private practice and with cancer patients in NHS hospital settings. She has developed and run a course for partners of cancer patients, Partners in treatment and facilitates Macmillan Cancer Support courses “Hope” and “Take Control” for cancer patients.