Couples Therapy
Couples counselling is a form of counselling that helps partners navigate relationship challenges, improve communication, and strengthen their connection. A couple’s therapist supports couples to address issues like conflict, miscommunication, trust issues, differing goals, or emotional disconnection.
Purpose of Couples Therapy
Improving Communication: A lot of relationship problems stem from poor communication. A couples therapist teaches couples how to communicate more effectively, listen actively, and express their needs and concerns in a healthy way. Conflict Resolution: Every couple faces disagreements, but couples counselling helps partners navigate conflict in a constructive way rather than allowing it to lead to resentment or disengagement. Learning how to argue respectfully and find common ground is a key goal for couple’s counselling. Building Trust: Trust can be damaged by various factors—infidelity, dishonesty, or emotional distance. A couples therapist helps partners rebuild trust, set boundaries, and create a more secure emotional connection. Understanding Each Other: Sometimes, couples simply need help understanding each other’s perspectives and emotional needs. Couples counselling provides a safe space to explore underlying emotions and find deeper empathy for one another. Preventative Care: Couples counselling isn't just for when things go wrong; it can be a proactive way to maintain a healthy relationship, improve intimacy, and stay connected over time.
Benefits of Couples Therapy
Enhanced Emotional Intimacy: Couples counselling often leads to a greater sense of closeness, as partners open up and share their vulnerabilities in a supportive environment. Stronger Relationship Skills: Working with their couples therapist, couples learn valuable tools for managing their relationship, such as how to express themselves without criticism or contempt, how to forgive, and how to make decisions together. Reduced Stress: Unresolved conflict and tension can create a lot of stress. Couples counselling helps to alleviate that by addressing issues directly and providing strategies for stress management. Increased Satisfaction: Many couples experience greater satisfaction in their relationships after couples counselling, feeling more understood, supported, and connected. Personal Growth: Not only does couples counselling improve the relationship, but it also helps each partner grow as an individual by encouraging self-reflection and personal development. Stronger Long-Term Commitment: Couples who undergo couples counselling often report stronger long-term commitment because they develop a deeper understanding of each other and the relationship’s needs.
What to expect
The process of couple's counselling begins with the initial session, where we have a chance to get to know one another and understand if we are a good fit for a successful therapeutic relationship. I will try to gain a good understanding of what the relationship issues are and what you want to achieve with couple's counselling. Following our first couple’s counselling session, I then do an individual session with each person. This individual session is a chance to work on any issues the individual may be dealing with that impacts the relationship. Then we move forward with couple's counselling sessions.
The foundation of my couple’s counselling work is underpinned by evidence-based methods such as Gottman Therapy and Emotional Focussed Therapy (EFT). Common reasons for coming to therapy is for couple’s to improve their communication skills, to understand their past or present relationship, to improve intimacy and connection. We can address these issues but to effectively do this, we will work to promote safe emotional engagement and responsiveness, as that is the foundation of a secure bond, and that is how you reconnect with your loved one and build a healthy future together.
Fees
Counselling Fee:
Individual sessions are 50-minutes $140
Couple sessions are 50-minutes $160
Cancellations
When you make an appointment, you are reserving an hour of time, so we kindly ask that you give us sufficient notice in the event that you need to cancel or postpone your appointment.
Giving us more than 24 hours notice helps us offer this valuable time to other people who are looking for an appointment.
A cancellation fee is not charged when you provide more than 24 hours notice to the clinic. If a cancellation is made with less than 24-hours notice the full fee is required to be paid.