Get Involved In Research For Couples’ Therapy

• The therapy is for couples who are experiencing some difficulties in their relationship because of a brain injury, or who feel their relationship is not as good as it was before the injury.
• One of you must have had a brain injury, such as a stroke, head injury or anoxia.
• You must both want to take part.
• You must have lived together for at least 2 years before the injury and still be living together now.
• The brain injury must have happened at least 1 year ago, but no more than 10 years ago.
• The study is based in the UK. We can provide the therapy in the West Midlands, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Derbyshire. If you live outside these areas, taking part online is a possibility.

What Is Involved?

• You would take part in about 10 therapy sessions, each lasting about an hour long. The sessions will take place weekly at the start.
• The sessions would take place at a venue that is convenient for you, such as your own home or a Headway or NHS centre near your home. It can also be offered online, but this may not provide the best experience of the therapy.
• The therapy involves a review of your life as individuals and as a couple. We would look at who you were before the injury, and what was important to you. We would then look at what the injury changed and what has stayed the same.
• You would also work on changing your day-to-day life and ways of being together as a couple – to bring them closer to what these were like before the injury.