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Welcome to Relational Best - Coaching and Counselling for Individuals and Partnerships in Exeter and Online, with Amanda Williamson

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Are You Ready to Embrace Meaningful Change in Your Life? I offer sessions both online and face-to-face from my dedicated premises on Southernhay East in the center of Exeter, Devon. In this professional and confidential space, you are warmly invited to offload, explore, develop, and discover.  I specialise in working with individuals and couples  -be they life partners or business partners - who understand the transformative power of structured, meaningful conversations. Together, we will: - Expand your thinking - Clarify your professional and personal goals - Overcome personal obstacles - Explore and realise your full potential Life often presents profound challenges; be it loss, illness, relationship upheavals, career transitions, or episodes of depression and anxiety. Such events compel us to re-examine our ways of being. I invite you to seize these moments as opportunities to embrace change and become the best version of yourself. Alternatively, you might feel the need for...

An Invitation to Fellow Dual-Qualified Relationship Practitioners

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Hello there... I’m Amanda Williamson, and my work sits in that fertile space between therapy and coaching. I very much value seeing how the blended approach is especially helpful in  relationship work . Working with relationships is not the same as working with individuals. It requires specialist training, different skills, and a particular mindset. And for those of us who are dual-qualified; weaving coaching and therapy together in this space, it can  feel like we’re practising at the edges, without much of a community. I’d love that to change. Why Relationship Work Needs Its Own Conversation It’s a different discipline.  Holding two realities in the room and working with the relationship itself (rather than just the individuals) requires additional training and supervision. Too often, people without that grounding “have a go” at couples work, and the results can be unsafe or unhelpful. It requires high standards.  I’ve long campaigned for regulation and accountabil...