Couple Therapy

An intimate couple relationship can be both the most rewarding and the most challenging area of life. Each stage of the couple relationship, from learning to live together, having children, not having children, illness, retirement and other significant milestones, bring opportunities for growth and change. At times you may feel ‘stuck’, but you do not have to stay ‘stuck’. 

An intimate relationship is an on going process which involves a continual learning of both the art and science of loving. We don’t get classes in how to have a thriving couple relationship. It makes sense that this is sometimes difficult, confusing and frustrating and at times you may be ready to ‘throw the towel in’. Couple therapy can help.

I use an integrated approach of the Couple Developmental Model, Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and Family Systems. Each of these evidence-based approaches allows me to help you understand the impact that the past may have on your present and how emotions and behaviours are organizing your responses to one another. Using the Couple Developmental approach I begin to understand what stage your relationship is in, and I explain this to you. I encourage you to set your own autonomous goals and describe the relationship that you want to create. An overarching goal is to create a more secure attachment bond with one another, moving to expansiveness and flexibility as well as building friendship and intimacy for a deeper more satisfying connection.