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About Couples Therapy

I support couples in working through challenges and moving toward healing their relationship, creating a secure connection, healthier communication patterns, and deeper understanding of one another through Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFCT).

Let’s chat …

Maybe you’re experiencing:

○ Recurring conflict or communication that quickly escalates or shuts down

○ Feeling that your partner doesn’t listen, understand, or prioritise you

○ Anxiety and/or withdrawal within your relationship

○ Noticing you feel disconnected from your partner, like you’re not a team anymore

○ Working through a betrayal of trust, including sexual or emotional affairs, violated boundaries, or feeling left alone when you needed your partner most

Welcome. You’re in the right place.

about couples therapy

I offer a supportive space for couples seeking change, growth, and more connection in their relationship…

Sometimes we can become stuck in frustrating and painful cycles with our partner where we want to feel heard and understood, but instead end up feeling further apart and may even start to lose hope.

When conflict, distance, or misunderstandings begin to repeat, it can leave us feeling hurt, annoyed, or alone in our relationship and as though we need to protect ourselves. We can lose our ability to be vulnerable with our partner, which is so essential for feeling connected in our relationship.

Together, we can work through any relationship struggles using Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) to understand what is happening between you, strengthen your bond, and heal relationship wounds.

Importantly, both partners are welcome to share their perspectives openly and honestly. My role is not to take sides, but to help you understand the patterns that occur between you and support you in finding new ways of responding to one another that strengthen connection.

Even when trust has been deeply shaken through betrayal or an affair, therapy can provide a supportive space to process the pain, understand what has happened between you, and begin rebuilding emotional safety and connection.

If this resonates with you, I invite you to reach out for a free 15-minute chat.

Please note, I see clients for sessions online and in my beautiful space in Brunswick.

My approach to couples therapy:

Firstly, we lay the foundations for our work together by forming a shared understanding of what brings you to couples therapy and your relationship story.

I support couples in working through challenges and moving toward healing their relationship, creating a secure connection, healthier communication patterns, and deeper understanding of one another through Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFCT).

Let’s chat …

I offer a supportive space for couples seeking change, growth, and more connection in their relationship…

My approach to couples therapy:

Firstly, we lay the foundations for our work together by forming a shared understanding of what brings you to couples therapy and your relationship story.

We collaboratively create shared goals to guide the therapeutic process.

Together, we map the cycles in your relationship to understand what is happening between you and what each of your needs are.

We use attachment theory to help us understand and validate the reasons you respond the way you do in your relationship.

We intentionally explore emotions to facilitate connection, emotional responsiveness, and relationship change.

I offer tools and strategies along the way to support the process both inside and outside of therapy.

"We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.”
— Harville Hendrix

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I support couples in working through challenges and moving toward healing their relationship, creating a secure connection, healthier communication patterns, and deeper understanding of one another through Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFCT).

Let’s chat …

I offer a supportive space for couples seeking change, growth, and more connection in their relationship…

My approach to couples therapy:

Firstly, we lay the foundations for our work together by forming a shared understanding of what brings you to couples therapy and your relationship story.

We collaboratively create shared goals to guide the therapeutic process.

Together, we map the cycles in your relationship to understand what is happening between you and what each of your needs are.

We use attachment theory to help us understand and validate the reasons you respond the way you do in your relationship.

We intentionally explore emotions to facilitate connection, emotional responsiveness, and relationship change.

I offer tools and strategies along the way to support the process both inside and outside of therapy.

"We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.”— Harville Hendrix

"We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.”
— Harville Hendrix