Couples' Counselling
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There are four parts to any emotional experience:
The trigger, the feeling, the meaning and the action. During a couple’s counselling session we will collaborate to navigate your emotional experiences in order to resolve relationship issues. Such issues might be related to life transitions such as the birth of a child, illness, unemployment, or mental health such as anxiety and depression. They can be noticed between new couples during adjustment period or stem from childhood trauma or attachment based unresolved issues. Regardless of the reason or the underlying issues, such situations warrant working with a neutral, empathic, well trained professional to listen to both partners and set the tone for both partners to listen and understand the emotional experience of each other. My goal is to create and maintain a trustworthy, confidential alliance to repair the rupture as we work together towards understanding the dynamics of the relationship in a non-pathologizing manner. Emotions can be painful and sometimes scary. Nonetheless, if you want to resolve such challenges or rekindle your feelings with your partner; working with a couple’s counsellor can facilitate healthy communication, as well as negotiating internal and external factors that strain your relationship. We all realize that it is not sustainable to live with anger, bitterness, sarcasm or resentment. Therefore, I am inviting you to explore options and open yourselves up to new horizons of harmony and connection. Let us work together to collaborate to put an end to silent treatment, victimhood, and withdrawal. Let us work towards resolving relationship issues and aspire for the life you deserve. Let us change core organizing factors in both the self and key relationships and address dysfunctional patterns of emotion regulation and ways of engaging with one another that undermine secure bonding interactions. If you feel committed to the relationship and want to explore the process of reconciliation and intrinsic connection to overcome stagnation or damaging emotions and instead, to open up to a positive and loving future; then you have come to the right place. I have a passion to support my clients and facilitate the transformation of their relationships to move forward towards trust and safety. Issues I support my clients with are:
I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) which is a cutting edge, tested and proven couple therapy based on adult attachment, a profound developmental theory of personality and intimate relationships. The EFT model prioritizes emotion and emotional regulation as the key organizing agents in individual experience and key relationship interactions. I am also trained in Satir transformational systemic therapy which was designed to improve relationships and communication within relationships by addressing a person’s actions, emotions, and perceptions as they relate to that person’s dynamic within the relationship. Together we will aim to develop a greater sense of harmony, oneness, and inner peace. |
