Couples Counselling

When your relationship has hit some bumps in the road I’m here to help you create a smoother path.

Life can feel confusing, lonely, and frustrating when relationship challenges arise. Whether you're feeling misunderstood, disconnected, or caught in constant arguments, relationship counseling can transform these struggles into opportunities for deeper connection, security, and satisfaction.

You've come to the right place if you're seeking to deepen, enrich, and enliven your intimate relationship. Relationships inevitably face challenges, but with the right support, you can navigate these rough times, effectively manage conflicts, and cultivate a stronger, more authentic connection.

Our sessions aim to

Acknowledge and build on the strengths already present in your relationship.

Heal and develop healthy patterns to address areas of challenge.

Deepen how you hear and understand each other

Foster a deeper, more authentic, and nurturing connection.

What to expect working together?

I'll conduct a thorough assessment of your relationship through both couple and individual sessions, identifying strengths and challenges. We'll then implement research-based interventions focused on the Sound Relationship House Theory.

During this assessment, I strongly encourage you to enrich your experience by completing the online Gottman Relationship Check-up. Our goals using Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflict, increase intimacy, remove barriers, and enhance empathy and understanding within your relationship.

A diagram of Gottman's Sound Relationship House

My methodology

I primarily utilise the John and Julie Gottman Method in relationship counseling, drawing from other relevant methodologies as needed to enrich our sessions.

You don't have to navigate these challenges alone. Together, we'll equip you and your partner with the insights, skills, tools, and strategies needed to create lasting and healthy changes in your relationship.

Here are the levels of the Sound Relationship House that we'll explore and implement supporting strategies during our time together.

A couple struggling with conflict in their relationship

What relationship issues can we address?

Gottman Relationship counseling can help with common relationship issues such as:

  • Constant conflict/fighting

  • Poor communication/no communication

  • Breaches of trust/lying

  • Growing apart

  • Falling out of love/Affairs

  • Verbal abuse

  • Relationship neglect

  • Lack of intimacy

  • Family problems

  • Parenting challenges

  • Stepchildren and in-laws

  • Childhood issues

  • Anger management problems/overwhelm

  • Understanding and working with trauma

A couple sitting at the ocean

What we can achieve together?

Together we can create more effective communication; bring the spark back, playfulness and spontaneity, into your relationship; manage conflict effectively; regulate difficult emotions; encourage support during stressful times; cope with stress and life transitions and navigate challenges from your past.

We will be able to build trust and emotional connection; acknowledge and meet each other's needs; revive neglected aspects of your relationship; deepen understanding of yourself and your partner; navigate differences in values or culture and make decisions about the future of your relationship.

We will learn how to address financial, parenting, and extended family issues; address mismatched desire or loss of intimacy; recover from cheating or infidelity; reconnect after the arrival of children; manage mental health in your relationship and explore relationship values, needs, and rights.

Remember: “At the end of our life what matters most is how well we loved”