Couples Counselling & Support For Relationship Issues

Sometimes we need a little help figuring out how to navigate the challenges and changes in our relationships. We can help with a broad range of relationship concerns including improving communication, building greater intimacy and connection, decreasing conflict and improving problem solving, as well as increasing overall safety and trust. Using a strength-based, attachment and Gottman Method informed approach, couples sessions are geared to the unique challenges of your relationship. Couples counselling may help you and your partner:

• develop healthier more effective ways of communicating

• improve conflict resolution skills

• deepen your understanding of each other and clarify each other’s needs

• clarify and develop stronger shared meaning and goals

• strengthen your friendship and improve overall relationship satisfaction

Your therapist can help by being a nonjudgmental and safe sounding board whose primary goal is to improve and assist your relationship.

Support for Difficult Life Transitions

Sometimes couples may choose to schedule sessions to help them navigate difficult life transitions, traumatic events and/or major life changes including:

• coping with a chronic illness or pain, recent injury or surgery, or other health concern which has created significant shifts in your day to day life or short/long term plans, impacted relationship roles, or created challenges related to communication, intimacy, or connection.

• dealing with a recent job loss, career shift, or transitioning into retirement

• coping with grief and loss

• challenges related to parenting, family planning or fertility

Support for Separation, Divorce, and Co-Parenting

Couples counselling can also be an effective way of navigating a recent separation and/or divorce and assist with:

• finding strategies to effectively manage ongoing joint responsibilities including co-parenting

• developing effective communication strategies to work through ongoing challenges and differences

• clarifying and bringing closure to the relationship

• coping with negative feelings that have resulted from the end of the relationship

• managing any remaining difficult decisions and agreements that need to be made in an amicable and cooperative manner

Contact us to get started today with a free initial 20 minute consultation

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