Loving connection is the only safety nature ever offers us.
Sue Johnson
We Can Help You With…
- Feeling unheard, unseen, or emotionally disconnected
- Recurring arguments that never actually get resolved
- One partner shutting down, the other pushing harder
- Growing distance and loss of intimacy
- Feeling alone inside the relationship
- A partner who isn’t sure they want to come to counselling
- Rebuilding trust after a betrayal
- Knowing something is wrong but not being able to name it
- Falling back into the same patterns no matter how hard you try
Fear and anger are just the shadows of love, learn to face and integrate them together
Relationship Counselling Rates
COUPLES SESSION
$212
INDIVIDUAL SESSION
$175
LOW COST COUPLES
$80
Couples Counselling FAQs
What is couples counselling?
Couples counselling, also known as couples therapy, is a type of psychotherapy that helps couples explore, identify, and resolve conflicts to improve their relationships and interactions. Through couples counselling, couples can make thoughtful decisions about rebuilding their relationship (or in some cases ending the relationship through a process known as conscious decoupling). Couples counselling is conducted by a licensed couple therapist with specific training in family systems and couple dynamics. During the sessions, the therapist will help both partners to communicate better, negotiate differences, and solve underlying issues.
Who needs couple counselling?
Who needs couples counselling sounds like the intro to a joke from the 1970s. A better answer is that anyone who is in any type of relationship and is finding that it is draining them more than energizing them can benefit. This may be a romantic couple, a friendship, a family relationship such as siblings or parents and children, groups of people and those in non-monogamous arrangements. It goes without saying that folks of all cultural and identity backgrounds can benefit. Anybody in some type of relationship feeling stuck who wishes to see through blindspots and find vitality instead of struggle.
What are the benefits of couples counselling?
Just think of the opposite of whatever is making you scroll through a couple’s counselling webpage. People who ‘do the work’ as they say learn how to get out of negative, destructive cycles of cursed problem solving. They learn how to team up against issues instead of each other. Partners engaged in couples counselling learn communication skills, for sure, but more valuable is discovering how to help each other back from their pain when they are both so triggered and jacked that communication skills aren’t even helpful anymore. It’s about finding out how to calm each other instead of agitate each other.
What can I do if my partner does not want to go for couples counselling?
This is tricky. If someone’s emotions or nervous system are flashing a red light there isn’t much we can do to talk them out of a feeling. Even if you physically brought them in, they may be locked up tight and unable to benefit from the work in their ‘freeze response.’ My best suggestion is to approach the topic softly and with curiousity like I respect if you don’t want to go. No one can force you. I know that we both value our relationship though and I’m feeling a bit stuck. Can you share a little bit about what makes you hesitant to go? I’d love to understand. This alone may lead to some deeper chats that may help you to connect in ways you haven’t in a while, whether you end up trying couples therapy or not.
Can couples counselling work?
Yes! With commitment to attend sessions and to release the grip of needing to be ‘right,’ couples regularly improve their connections.
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