Supporting You to Build Healthier Ways to Communicate & Connect
Even strong couples go through seasons where they feel disconnected, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. You can love each other deeply AND still struggle to communicate, feel understood, or navigate differences in a way that leaves both of you feeling heard and seen. Over time, unresolved conflict can create distance, resentment, and loneliness within the relationship.
Common Relationship Challenges I Support:
- Communication difficulties, including struggling to express your needs without your partner becoming defensive, withdrawn, or hurt
- Repeated arguments and unresolved conflict, where you find yourselves having the same fights without feeling any closer to a resolution
- Difficulty repairing after conflict, where apologies or conversations do not seem to resolve the underlying hurt
- Emotional disconnection and loneliness, even when you are spending time together
- Feeling unheard, misunderstood, or underappreciated by your partner
- Defensiveness, criticism, withdrawal, or shutting down during difficult conversations
- Resentment and frustration related to household responsibilities, parenting, or the mental load
- Differences in values, expectations, or priorities, including finances, parenting, family boundaries, or lifestyle
- Intimacy challenges, including feeling disconnected or having difficulty talking about intimacy
- Broken trust, betrayal, affair, including needing support to rebuild trust & connection after hurt or betrayal
Couples therapy provides a safe and supportive space to slow things down, understand the patterns that keep you stuck, and learn how to communicate in ways that create greater understanding and connection. Instead than focusing only on who is right or wrong, therapy can help you understand underlying issues and learn healthier ways of communicate and connect with each other.
Couples intensives are 4 to 6 hours long extended sessions for couples who want to have concentrated sessions in a short span of time to dive deeply and target specific goals. It can be helpful for couples addressing issues related to affair recovery, premarital/prenatal counselling, big life decision, or couples who have a busy schedule, or have limited time together in the same city (e.g., long distance relationships).
Individual relationship counselling can can help you better understand your relationship patterns, recognize how you respond during conflict, and learn healthier ways to communicate your needs. It can provide space to gain clarity about what you want and need in your relationship, process hurt, resentment, loneliness, or disappointment, and navigate difficult relationship decisions. It can also help you focus on the changes within your control and prepare for couples therapy if your partner becomes ready to participate.
Premarital Counselling can be helpful for couples who are hoping to take a proactive approach to prepare for their marriage. Prepare Enrich is one approach to support your premarital process.
Individual and couples therapy can complement one another. During a free introductory call, we can discuss what you are experiencing and determine what type of support may be the best fit for you. Book a free introductory call.
Frequently Asked Questions About Couples Therapy & Relationship Counselling
What happens during couples therapy?
The first three sessions are focused on getting to know you as a couple and as individuals. I will learn more about your relationship concerns, your hopes and goals for couples therapy, as well as your personal and relationship history.
We typically begin with a couples session, followed by individual sessions with each partner to better understand each person’s experiences, perspectives, and needs within the relationship. A detailed screening will also be included in the assessment process so help us better understand your areas of growth and strengths.
In the fourth session, I will share my observations and provide feedback about your relationship patterns, strengths, and areas for growth. Together, we will develop a treatment plan and begin working through the challenges that brought you to therapy. We will focus on building practical relationship skills to improve communication, navigate conflict, and strengthen your connection with one another.
When should we go to couples therapy?
Many couples seek support when they have want to communicate better because they keep having the same fights. Some couples may feel disconnected if they have turned into roommates. Couples therapy can also be a proactive way to support your relationship especially when going through life transitions such as family planning, becoming new parents, and career changes. Some couples seek support specifically for issues related to pre-marital counselling, fertility support, or affair recovery.
What if my partner does not want to go to couples therapy?
It can feel disappointing and frustrating when you are ready to work on your relationship, but your partner is not ready to take that step. You may feel alone in carrying the responsibility for change or worry that your relationship will never improve.
If couples therapy is not an option at the moment, individual therapy can help you better understand your relationship patterns, communicate more effectively, set healthy boundaries, and respond differently during conflict. As one person begins to make changes, it often influences the relationship in meaningful ways.
Training & Certification:
Gottman Method Couples Therapy level 1 and 2
Treating Affair & Trauma (Gottman)
Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Healing from Affairs Training
Prepare & Enrich Premarital Counselling
Integrative Sex & Couples Certification Training
Intensive Couples Therapy Level 1 Training: An Accelerated Approach to Repair, Stabilize, and Strengthen Couples in Crisis