Relate is the UK’s largest provider of relationship, family counselling and sex therapy. We also offer a range of other relationship support services.

Relate Bournemouth is a registered charity (1120017), a company limited by guarantee (6109030) and a federated member of Relate Central Office. This Centre had its 50th birthday in 2008 so has been proudly supporting this community since 1958.

Relate Bournemouth has a local board of Directors who govern the centre supported by a management team, therapeutic work force and administrative staff, all of whom aim to:-

RELATE’S MISSION STATEMENT

Relate’s role is to help build better couple relationships

• To enhance the quality of couple and parental family relationships
• To help relationships and marriages withstand the pressures leading to breakdown
• To limit the damage which commonly accompanies failing relationships, separation and divorce and increase the prospect of subsequent relationships succeeding.

Relate aims to deliver its services with cultural sensitivity and without discrimination.

Relate believes that

• An individual’s physical well-being and emotional and mental health benefit from a committed relationship
• Children thrive in families where relationships are positive and free from destructive conflict
• People gain from an understanding of their sexuality

Expressing clear commitment is a helpful contribution to healthy and secure couple relationships.