Your Complete Guide to Relate NI’s Relationship-Support Services 2025

Your Complete Guide to Relate NI’s Relationship-Support Services 2025

Healthy relationships look different for everyone, and the support you need can change over time.

Relate NI is Northern Ireland’s largest specialist relationship charity, directly helping more than 36,000 people of all ages, backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities to strengthen their relationships last year.

At Relate NI we offer a range of services including counselling, therapy and mediation so you can access “the right service at the right time.”

Below is a breakdown of our range of relationship services, grouped by stage in the relationship-support journey.

  1. Brief, Solution-Focused Support – when you need a quick reset

  • One at a Time Therapy
    A single, 50-minute session (online or in person) for individuals, couples or teens who want expert help with “Your One Thing” right now, whether that’s a parenting disagreement, post-break-up blues, work stress or any relationship wobble. Follow-up options are always offered if a deeper dive is needed.
    Find out more: https://www.relateni.org/relateni-services/one-at-a-time-therapy/

This service often acts as a stepping-stone into longer-term counselling, or as a “maintenance check-up” after therapy has ended.

  1. Counselling and Therapy – digging deeper with professional support

  1. Mediation and Post-Separation Support – constructive ways forward

  • Family Mediation
    Impartial, confidential mediation for separated parents, family disputes and older-person care decisions. Accredited mediators empower separated parents to focus on their children’s needs and agree co-parenting arrangements following a separation or divorce. Find out more: https://www.relateni.org/relateni-services/family-mediation/

Your Relationship-Wellbeing “Roadmap”

  1. Triage Quickly through One at a Time Therapy if something flares.
  2. Explore in Depth via counselling or specialist sex therapy.
  3. Resolve Conflict Positively with Family Mediation when relationships end or big decisions loom.

At every stage, the Relate NI team can help you find the best option, so you’re never left wondering “what now?”

 Ready to take the next step?

Click here or call 028 9032 3454 to arrange your initial consultation.

 

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“How Relate NI helps people”

Our counsellor was excellent and really helped me and my husband to resolve the niggles in our relationshipService Attended Adult Relationship Counselling for Couples
My counsellor was lovely, attentive and supportive. She helped me to understand my worth and for that, I will always be gratefulService Attended Adult Relationship Counselling for Individuals
This service is invaluable. Such lovely people to meet and help you through difficult times.Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling for Couples
The service was excellent, my counsellor was really good at getting us to open up and helping us to get to the root of our issues. We have definitely improved our communication since attending.Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling for Couples
I found the Relationship MOT an excellent method of focusing on how we work as a couple and just as importantly, where we need to work. It was professional, insightful and well worth the time. It has reminded us of how much we have to be proud of in our relationship and why it is so important to occasionally review it with experts.Service Attended Relationship MOT
I would definitely recommend using the Relationship MOT service as a bit of a check in with your partner. I thought how the counsellor was able to steer the conversation was very insightful and nuanced. The MOT reminded us about why we are great together but also the importance of communication and respect.” “Our counsellor provided an outside perspective which immediately helped us to agree that we needed to stop and think with more kindness and empathy for each other especially when stressed or pissed off. We both felt that our counsellor’s excellent and gentle facilitation was quite invigorating. So many positives!Service Attended Relationship MOT 2
Very Interesting Content. I like the concept of preparing your relationship before you have problemsService Attended Sustaining Healthy Relationships – Surestart 4
The face to face programme has made me feel connected with others experiencing similar thingsService Attended Sustaining Healthy Relationships – Surestart 3
The workshops made me more confident to balance family life after the baby's arrivalService Attended Sustaining Healthy Relationships – Surestart 2
I now have a better understanding of myself, it is good to know that it is normal to have argumentsService Attended Sustaining Healthy Relationships – Surestart 1
I felt the weekly questionnaire, couples with the counsellor's understanding of my needs help contribute to my own understanding of my mental health and needs throughout.Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling for Individuals
I loved every session. Our counsellor listened to what we had to say and gave us helpful wee homework - would recommend this service to everybodyService Attended Adult Relationship Counselling for Couples
Our counsellor was a fantastic support - we now feel strong enough to continue working on our relationship togetherService Attended Adult Relationship Counselling for Couples
I had a very good counsellor that helped me through a lot and it has made me come out the other side.Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling for Individuals
Counselling took us from a bad place to a good one and I would return if neededService Attended Adult Relationship Counselling For Couples
Been a lifeline to help us fall in love again - forever grateful!Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling For Couples
I would just like to say that when I first came for counselling I felt that I was drowning.  I have completed my sessions and I now feel that I can cope a lot better with everything.  Thank you for a brilliant service.Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling For Individuals
Thank you Relate NI for a good nights sleep.Service Attended Relate NI Kids Counselling
Really enjoyed Relate NI and I'm actually going to miss counselling.  I Found it helpful to find myself again. Very fair and equal within our relationship.Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling For Couples
The counsellor was very pleasant to meet with.  They had the necessary skills to speak and listen when appropriate.  I liked their humour and good personality.Service Attended Family Counselling
Relate NI has helped me move on as well as understand myself and situation more.  My counsellor listened to me, facilitated me and was compassionate!Service Attended Relate NI Teen Counselling
I felt the weekly questionnaire, coupled with counsellor's understanding of my needs helped contribute to my own understanding of my mental health and needs throughoutService Attended Adult Relationship Counselling For Individuals
We had four funded sessions and cannot express how grateful we are for the help, guidance and knowledge. Our counsellor was incredibly professional, and her experience and obvious passion for helping couples like us was exceptional. She helped us to understand ourselves and each other like we otherwise never would have been able to.Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling For Couples
I have tried counselling many times in the past. This time actually made a difference. I was able to complete online sessions as well as some face to face.Service Attended Adult Relationship Counselling For Individuals

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