Unfortunately, in the UK we do not have a tradition of specialist care for marital and sexual problems. Those who can help professionally are:
Marriage guidance counsellors-The worst thing about these otherwise helpful people is their name. The word ‘guidance’ is an historical quirk, but today they do little ‘guiding’ in the
old-fashioned sense. Partly to recognise this fact the UK Marriage Guidance Council has changed its name to Relate. They are not in business to save marriages come what may, but to offer a realistic service to the married, the single, the divorced and separated, homosexuals, and anyone who needs personal counselling. These counsellors are all trained but are not specialists in the medical sense of the word. Their training is fairly restricted, and they are taught not to tell clients what to do. They work in forty-to-fifty minute time slots, which many people find too short to be really useful. Most marriage guidance counsellors are middle-class women and this puts some people off going to them. Having said this they do see every class of society and nearly as many men as women. Many of the commoner and uncomplicated marital and sexual problems can be dealt with by them and Relate Marriage Guidance also has centres which can offer more specialised sex therapy and group sessions. Marriage guidance counsellors charge very modest fees indeed.
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