Relate South Warwickshire

Relate is the largest UK provider of relationship counselling and sex therapy.  It operates from over 80 centres at over 400 locations nationwide.  Each centre is part of the Relate Federation and receives policy and standards for operation from the Relate Central Office.  Relate Counsellors see over 100,000 people each year.

Relate South Warwickshire Centre has offered services to Warwick and Stratford Districts for over forty years.  Our main offices and counselling rooms are in the county town of Warwick, but outpost counselling takes place in Stratford and other locations too. 

Relate South Warwickshire is an independent, not for profit, charity.  Governed by its own Board of Trustees, the team of Counsellors, Sex Therapists, Centre Manager, Administrative Staff, Volunteers and Trainers, all strive to offer the highest possible standards of service delivery.

Who uses South Warwickshire Relate’s Services?

People experiencing relationship problems use our services.  These may include:        

•    Young people experiencing difficult family changes
•    Whole families
•    Single people
•    Couples
•    People who are married or living together
•    Same sex and heterosexual individuals and couples
•    People of any age
•    Disabled people
•    Carers
•    BME individuals, couples and families
•    People unable to leave their home

Our Aims, Objectives and Mission Statement

Relate works to promote health, respect and justice in all types of relationships.  We aim to deliver our services with cultural sensitivity and without discrimination. 

Relate’s role is to help people build better relationships: 

• To enhance the quality of couple, parental and family relationships.
• To help relationships and marriages withstand the pressures leading to breakdown.
• To limit the damage which commonly accompanies failing relationships, separation and divorce and increase the prospect of subsequent relationships succeeding.
• To seek to enhance the good health, mental and physical, of adults and children by increasing public awareness of the benefits of committed couple relationships, marriage and family life and working to prevent poverty, hardship and distress caused by the breakdown of such relationships.

Relate believes that: 

• An individual’s physical well-being and emotional and mental health benefit from a committed relationship.
• Children thrive in families where relationships are free from destructive conflict.
• People gain from an understanding of their sexuality.
• Expressing clear commitment is a helpful contribution to a healthy and secure couple relationship.