How to Destroy Your Sex Life: Are You Sexually Punitive?
Couples often attend therapy because of sex problems: one wants it (more) and the other one doesn’t. On the surface, this may look like a stereotypical problem that the media often addresses in comical...
What Loving Relationships Are Made Of
Most of us want to have the experience of being in a loving relationship. We have ideas and fantasies that lead to expectations … often unrealistic ones that end in disappointment. These days romantic...
The Foundation for a Loving Relationship: Emotional Safety
We all long for a loving relationship. A relationship that allows us to experience deep and meaningful love. A relationship that encourages us to be the best version of ourselves. We want to have...
The Main Factor Of A Loving Relationship: A Loving State of Mind
A loving relationship is what most of us want. Thousands of books have been written exploring and listing different ways of creating it. And yet, there is only one main factor that decides whether...
The Pillars of Emotional Connection: 3 Simple Ways To More Loving Relationships
We all crave emotional connection. From the moment we are born to the day we die we long to be with others and to feel connected to them. And yet, at times it...
The Power of Speaking Our Truth in Intimate Relationships
People say that truth is subjective. It is. People say that the truth will set you free. And it does. People say many thing about the truth but not many really speak theirs. Sadly,...
How To Destroy Your Relationship
Most of us dream of having a wonderful relationship and yet it seems that it is one of the hardest things to achieve. It is easy to look outward and blame our partners or...
Breaking Through Fear: Who Do You Think You Are … Not To Be You?
Writing is one of my biggest passions. I have always wanted to be a writer. But I have a fear of writing. Or so I thought … I see writing as self-expression. It is...
Emotional Safety: The Main Ingredient of Healthy Relating
A healthy relationship requires a solid foundation of trust. Trust emerges when we feel emotionally safe. In order to feel truly emotionally safe with someone else, we have to feel secure within ourselves. ...
The Soothing Effect of ‘We’ Language
‘We’ versus ‘You’ Relationships: there really is no ‘I’ in team We are innately wired for relationship and unless our mind tells us otherwise we naturally seek connection with others. While it is reassuring...
About Me
Marlena Tillhon is a UK psychotherapist and passionate about helping people reconnect with their innate wellbeing. She is also the co-founder and co-owner of Clarity Counselling providing high-quality and progressive psychotherapy in Staffordshire, Nottingham and Manchester.