Who are we? – Scotland’s relationship experts

Beginning the journey

Couple Counselling Lothian was founded in 1946 as part of the UK wide Marriage Guidance movement of the 1930s. Edinburgh’s foundation was delayed by World War II. It was the first in Scotland.  It became a company limited by guarantee in 1988. It is also the largest provider of relationship counselling in Scotland, offering a comprehensive range of services through out the Lothians.

We offer over 6000 appointments per annum from premises in Edinburgh, Livingston West Lothian, and Dalkeith Midlothian and are now open in Tranent in East Lothian with both adult and children’s services.

What do we do?

Couple Counselling Lothian offers counselling and a range of other services for couples and individuals, children, young people and extended families who are affected by relationship problems. As well as helping those who are thinking of staying together, separating or dealing with divorce, we see many people whose relationship has ended and who want to explore the issues around making new relationships.

Learning about couple counselling

We will see you whether you are in a civil partnership, married, living together, in a less formal relationship, divorced or separated. Our service is available whatever your age, race, personal beliefs, sexual orientation or social background.

As we offer a number of services, when you contact us, we ask you to complete a questionnaire so that we can recommend the right service for you.

The Services we offer are:

The Cost of Counselling

Couple Counselling Lothian is a registered charity and as such is a not for profit organisation.  However, sadly we do not have any large benefactor paying the organisation’s bills. While we recieve limited finance from different local authorities in the City and the Lothians the bulk of our financial support actually comes from our clients. (These grants cover less than 15% of our costs.)

It costs between £50 and £55 for each one hour session and that is the contribution Couple Counselling Lothian needs from clients in order to meet its financial obligations. For those unable to pay quite so much there is a sliding scale. Please see the FAQs page for details.

An Introduction to counselling

If you would like to see a clip explaining counselling, please click here to see COSCA’s “Person to Person” The video will open in a new tab or window and you will not lose your place in this site