Wellness themes

Relationships

Books

  • Hold me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love | Sue Johnson (2008)
    • Emotionally Focused Couple Therapist Dr Johnson shares her successful program for creating stronger, more secure relationships. Dr Johnson teaches that the way to enhance or save a relationship is to be open, attuned, and responsive to each other and to reestablish emotional connection. Through stories from Dr Johnson’s practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, you will learn how to nurture, protect, and grow your relationship, ensuring a lifetime of love.
  • The Art of Loving | Erich Fromm (1956)
    • In his classic work, The Art of Loving, renowned psychoanalyst and social philosopher Erich Fromm explores love in all its aspects—not only romantic love, steeped in false conceptions and lofty expectations, but also brotherly love, erotic love, self-love, the love of God, and the love of parents for their children.
  • We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues between Women and Men | Samuel Shem & Janet Surrey (1998)
    • Introduces the author’s Emotionally Focused Therapy technique, explaining how to assist couples by treating their relationship as a love-based, attachment bond that can be healed through the reestablishment of safe emotional connections.
  • Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love | Gottman & Gottman (2019)
    • Strengthen and deepen your love with a fun, ingenious program of eight life-changing conversations—on essential topics such as money, sex, and trust.
  • The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples | John M. Gottman (2011)
    • Gottman draws from this longitudinal research and theory to show how emotional attunement can downregulate negative affect, help couples focus on positive traits and memories, and even help prevent domestic violence. He offers a detailed intervention devised to cultivate attunement, thereby helping couples connect, respect, and show affection. Emotional attunement is extended to tackle the subjects of flooding, the story we tell ourselves about our relationship, conflict, personality, changing relationships, and gender. Gottman also explains how to create emotional attunement when it is missing, to lay a foundation that will carry the relationship through difficult times.
  • The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts | Gary Chapman (1992)
    • The 5 Love Languages is a practical and insightful guide to the complexities of relationships. It includes assessments you can discover as your love language with your loved one and how to keep the relationship growing through demands and everyday conflicts.
  • Calling in “the One”: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life | Katherine Woodward Thomas (2004)
    • Based on the Law of Attraction, which is the concept that we can only attract what we’re ready to receive, the provocative yet simple seven-week program in Calling in “The One” prepares you to bring forth the love you seek. For each of the 49 days of Thomas’s thoughtful and life-affirming plan, there is a daily lesson, a corresponding practice, and instruction for putting that lesson into action in your life.
  • I’m OK – You’re OK | Thomas A. Harris (1967)
    • A guide to transactional analysis. In non-technical language, it offers advice on gaining control of yourself, your relationships and your future, no matter what has happened in the past.


Podcasts

  • Small Things Often | The Gottman Institute
    • Evidenced-Based Approach to Relationships. Successful long-term relationships are created through small words, small gestures, and small acts. Research-based tips to help improve your relationships in five minutes or less.

Therapists specialising in Relationships

Zvetlana Cassar

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Systemic Family Psychotherapist
Yasmin Muscat Monsigneur

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Systemic Family Psychotherapist
Yana Gatt Hampton

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Systemic Family Psychotherapist
Shirley Buttigieg

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Gestalt Psychotherapist
Sharon Grima

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Counsellor, Social Worker & EMDR Trainee Practitioner
Melvin Calleja

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Systemic Family Psychotherapist
Mel McElhatton

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Gestalt Psychotherapist & Social Worker
Maria Mifsud

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Systemic Family Psychotherapist
Maria Darmanin

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Health Psychologist & Gestalt Psychotherapist
Luana Aquilina

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Systemic Family Psychotherapist

Resources about Relationships

Why we repeat painful relationship patterns

Written by Danjela Falzon
Have you ever known someone who seems to move from one troubled relationship to another, somehow always ending up with partners with similar traits to the previous one/s? You may even notice you do this yourself. For instance, you may frequently end up in relationships with partners who refuse to commit and, despite the obvious red flags, you’re continuously left wondering why this always happen…

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What makes you happy?

Written by Charlene Borg
Have you ever heard the term ‘horizontal thinking’? It’s relatively new to me too. I first came across this term in an article by Elizabeth Gilbert, an author I love. It refers to the spiral thinking that goes on in our heads when lying in bed, as we go over aspects of life which we never imagined we’d experience, or any other thoughts, fears and/or mental states we find ourselves in. I a…

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What family therapy is and why you should consider it

Written by Maria Mifsud
Family therapy is distinct from other forms of therapy because it focuses on the family system. The problems of individuals are observed within the context of the larger family unit. As a family therapist myself, my raison d’être is that personal difficulties cannot be successfully addressed or solved without understanding the dynamics of the family. When looking at an individual’s personal…

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Understanding the different forms of narcissism

Written by Danjela Falzon
When we hear the term ‘narcissist’, we usually think of the grandiose, self-important, arrogant and powerful world leader or celebrity. Recently, however, the term ‘narcissist’ is increasingly being used to refer to co-workers, bosses, partners or family members. This may be due to a rise in narcissism or simply increased awareness of this toxic personality style. Whichever it is, the real…

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The psychological benefits of reading

Written by Danjela Falzon
With an ever-increasing tendency for people to be glued to their phones or other devices, it’s easy to be pulled away from the reading of literature for simple pleasure. However, escaping into a good book is not only enjoyable, it’s good for your wellbeing and mental health. In this article by Gestalt Psychotherapist, Danjela Falzon, the benefits of reading are discussed, and guidance is provided as to how you can encourage the children in your lives to enjoy reading….

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The present is your presence – A Mindful Valentine

Written by Giulia Bertone
Whether you look forward to celebrating Valentine’s day or see it as a commercial endeavour, the 14th February can serve as the right opportunity to gift your loved ones with one of the most inestimable yet disregarded signs of care: your presence. We invest so much energy in attempting to surprise our loved ones with the perfect gift or the most romantic evening to prove our love on this “…

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The Power of Therapeutic Writing

Written by Clare Padovani
Many people assume that writing is just for writers or poets when, in fact, writing is for everyone and has been used for many years as a means of expression and healing. Therapeutic writing, in particular, has numerous benefits and takes a number of different forms, as explored in the following article by Clare Padovani, Gestalt Psychotherapist….

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The Parent-Child-Teacher triangle

Written by Maria Mifsud
As someone who grew up in the 90s, I was one of the very last generations that was able to spend time playing outdoors with other neighbourhood kids, as opposed to playing Super Mario on a video game console or Candy Crush on a smartphone. The only friends I knew were ones made of flesh, not Instagram profiles of people I had never met in real life. My only worry back then was that of kicking a…

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