Relationship Counselling

Relationship counselling isn’t just for couples who need help with their relationship, it’s also effective for people to keep open lines of communication and prevent issues turning into friction and bigger issues down the track. Relationship counselling is a type of therapy that focuses on improving romantic relationships, exploring issues and improving behaviour and actions with a therapist.

At any stage of your relationship, you may feel the need to seek a professional – no issue is too big or too small to get help and work through. It’s best to acknowledge and address issues within a relationship sooner than later, rather than let them brew over years and let resentment strengthen, making it harder to reconnect in future.

You may seek a couples therapist if you and/or your partner have one or more unsolvable disagreements, trouble expressing feelings, become critical or withdrawn, find it hard to make decisions together, experience events like addiction, financial trouble, abuse or infidelity, or perhaps to just make your relationship stronger than it already is.

Whatever your reason, relationship therapy is the best prevention to a marriage or relationship breakdown; you may find even one session will help you feel heard by your partner. Being in a safe, judgement-free environment can take a big weight off your shoulders by simply talking it out.

Our therapists, will provide you with a safe, respectful environment as they work through evidence-based theories of attachment. Spending time unpacking unhelpful behaviours, ruminating thoughts and underlying fears will help you reconnect with yourself and each other. After all, we can only give a relationship the same love and respect that we offer ourselves.

Family Therapy

Our family impacts our lives in a major way, from how we see the world to how we interact with others, even how we deal with certain life situations. Family creates a foundation for our values, beliefs and behaviours – so if we are born into a healthy family with healthy boundaries and connection, then we are bound to seek that in our adult life.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, if we grow up in a dysfunctional family that doesn’t have boundaries or connection, we are more likely to find hardship in creating healthy relationships with others. While you can’t change where you are born, you can change the situation by engaging in family therapy, in order to develop healthy foundations of a functioning family

Whether there are big life transitions in the family dynamic such as divorce or marital issues, children or teens with behaviour issues, family-wide communication problems, loss of a loved one, relationship issues with parent-child, parents, or siblings, or shared trauma, family therapy is designed to tackle the issues at hand, and combat your family with resilience to work through future issues.

You may be having therapy for yourself and find a lot of your issues are stemming from foundational family problems, so bringing your family into the treatment can help get down to the root causes efficiently and effectively. Whether you have issues with a parent, have a young family, or are struggling with your changing family dynamic, our therapists will treat your situation with respect in a safe, therapeutic environment.

Following theory-based and therapeutic approaches depending on your needs, our therapists will help you get to the cause of your family’s functional issues and offer a holistic approach to family life moving forward.