Couple counseling involves a couple meeting a counsellor to discuss how they feel about each other and any other issues, thoughts, feelings or behaviours that are causing the couple challenges or difficulties

Each session will run for 50 minutes. Length of therapy is individual and may be a single session to weekly for weeks or months.

Couples will attend together. The therapist will obtain a history of your relationship and identify how you want the relationship to be Some individual history will be taken Strengths will be identified The therapist may challenge the couple to think and relate in a different way The therapist will provide feedback Homework may be provided and the therapist will check ad review this regularly

• Couples experiencing any of the following may benefit from couple counselling:
• Frequent or constant arguing
• Overcoming a major breach of trust
• Difficulties with communication
• Emotional is gone or severely decreased
• Feeling resentful, unfulfilled or bored in your relationship
• Uncertainty about continuing in you relationship
• Difficulties with financial pressure
• Adjusting to being new parents
• Navigating difficulties with your children
• Infedelity and affiars including cyber-sex
• Challenges with extended family
• Support with external stressors such as work, illness, moving home
• Support if you or your partner or children have mental health issues
• Navigating separation

• Couple counselling provides a safe place where couples can explore their thoughts, feelings and behaviours and therefore gain a deer understanding of each other
• Identifies strengths in the relationship that can be built upon
• Couple counselling will assist you to work through difficult issues
• Will enhance couple communication skills
• Assists with the resolution of conflict
• Couples will gain an improved understanding of each other's unique qualities
• Spend quality time together working through issues
• Discover individual communications styles and how to connect best

• Psychoanalytic theory
• Trauma informed practice
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Motivational interviewing
• Schema Therapy
• Mindfulness
• Strength based approach