Some services are now also available in Leeds. Please contact us for more information to find out more, as there are minor differences to the services available.

Relationship Counselling

Personal relationships bring up all sorts of challenges and sometimes these can become problems. Many people attend for relationship support on their own, so you don’t have to be in a couple relationship. For instance, if you are in a relationship, you can attend individually or as a couple.

We help people who have come across issues in their personal relationships and want help to sort things out such as arguing, an affair, loss of interest in sex, taking each other for granted, problems communicating with each other and finding time for one another or the impact of life events.

Reaching with Relate

Get support with:

  • Working with primary and secondary schools in the City of Bradford
  • Psycho-education for students and young people
  • Raising confidence, self-esteem, resilience and emotional intelligence

Unavailable at Relate Leeds

Working with primary and secondary schools in the City of Bradford, the project is delivering psycho-education, focusing on healthy relationships and is helping to raise levels of confidence, self-esteem, increase resilience and emotional intelligence.

By empowering young people to learn how to manage and regulate their emotions and experiences we obtain an overall improvement in mental wellbeing.

Contact us for more information.

Family Counselling

Get support with:

  • The impacts of separation or divorce
  • Disagreements over parenting approaches
  • Strained Relationships between parents and their adult children
  • Adjustment to changes in family situation, eg. blended families
  • Difficulties in wider/extended family relationships
  • Siblings relationships

Requires £90 fee for service at Relate Leeds

Family counselling can help adult family members with reducing conflict and improving communication, when siblings aren’t getting on, or when parents and children are going through a divorce or separation. Because forming a new family is a challenge it’s at this point that many parents contact Relate for some support to help everyone settle.

All families are unique and have unique problems and our professional counsellors are specially trained to work with families to help resolve difficulties and problems.

Contact us for more information.

relate bradford family and young people's counselling services

Psychosexual Therapy

Get support with:

  • Complications in love life
  • Improving physical intimacy
  • Difficulties starting a family
  • Psychological and physical issues

Unavailable at Relate Leeds

All couples go through phases where they don’t have the time or energy for regular sex. It’s natural to want better sex and sometimes there are specific psychological or medical reasons for your difficulties.

Therefore, sex therapy can help you if you’re experiencing difficulties in your love life and can help improve physical intimacy. We can help where people are having problems with their sex life due to physical or emotional reasons. Our sex therapists see lots of people with sexual difficulties such as loss of desire, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, etc.

Contact us for more information.

Bradford & Craven Talking Therapies

Get support with:

  • Understanding and managing depression
  • Depressive behaviour in relationships
  • Improving communications between partners
  • Self Awareness and relationship dynamics

Requires £90 fee for service at Relate Leeds

People experiencing symptoms of depression often find their relationships become affected because of it. In addition, sometimes problems with our relationships can lead to one or other partner becoming depressed or anxious.

Depression can affect people in lots of different ways and we are focusing on increasing the stability of family life, improve communication, increase levels of couple intimacy, raise self-awareness and offering support with managing symptoms of depression.

Contact us for more information.

Organisational ‘Relationship Based’ Training

Get support with:

  • A professional understanding of talking therapy
  • Communication skills and engaging people
  • Knowledge of poverty, mental health, physical health and ill health

Unavailable at Relate Leeds

We help professionals better understand the impact talking therapy can have and how they can be more effective in using communication skills in engaging people, by increasing understanding of the quality of life and how our mindset can influence life experiences of those we work with, as well as ourselves.

Relate Bradford can also help people and organisations to build knowledge of the links between poverty and mental (and physical) ill health, understanding the effects and importance of helping people improve their self-esteem and confidence and how we work through anger.

Contact us for more information.


Step2Relate

We are a delivery partner for Step2Relate, a part of the Bradford Children’s Trauma Therapy service, working with Step2 in Bradford.

We work with families where children have experienced two to four ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experience) and as a result the child is suffering trauma symptoms and family are experiencing difficulties. We support parents to understand the trauma and behaviour of the child(ren) in order to recognise and support their children with their own trauma symptoms.

This service is jointly funded by the Department of Health and Bradford Clinical Commissioning Groups.

Referrals can be made to CALM via the service lead, Family Action.

You can call them on: 01274 651652 and ask for a member of the Children’s Trauma Therapy Service or send an email to CTTS@family-action.org.uk.

CALM Service Partners

Family Action – www.family-action.org.uk
Family Action has been building stronger families since 1869, and today work with over 60,000 families through our 200 community-based services. Thousands more are supported with financial assistance through education and welfare grants programmes


Step2 – www.step2.org.uk

Step 2 offers a range of services to young people in schools,
community sessions and through outreach,
offering services to young people individually, in groups or in whole class settings.