Are you struggling with connecting to your partner? Do you look at them and feel irritated and frustrated? Was there a breach of trust in your relationship that has caused distance and resentment? Using various techniques, including Gottman Method for Couples, we can work together to uncover the lack of communication, understanding and kindness that has infiltrated into your once loving relationship and discover new ways to build a stronger, more connected, loving and fulfilling relationship with your partner and yourself.
When working with relationships and marriage counselling, I like to start with some mindfulness around the issue to gain a deeper understanding of the experience, from here there are many options, and I rely of the client's wisdom to guide me.
Welcome and congratulations on taking this first step to heal and change.
With empathy and in a safe space I will empower you to think of your circumstances and struggles in ways you may not have thought of on your own. Collaboratively, we will find solutions that will have positive outcomes.
Are you struggling in your marriage? Ongoing fights and arguments about the same issues. Intimacy and sexual struggles. Are you trying to find the time to be with each other, but your children, work and other issues take over? Marriages are difficult and they take work to keep going on a daily basis. However, there is hope and there is a way to have a great marriage and do all the other things that you need to do. Learn how to have a committed marriage that is healthy and joyful, but balancing the inevitable struggles that all couples have. Call now and get the marriage that you both want.
Licensed Professional Counsellor, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
Couples often seek therapy when relationship problems are affecting their mental and physical health. For many couples, participating in couples therapy is a brave and courageous step due to a fear that the therapist may take sides and as a result, leave one partner feeling invalidated and misunderstood. The approach that I use is the Gottman Method Couple Therapy, which involves understanding each partner's inner world, beliefs, and values. I make sure that each partner feels validated and understood in order to create a safe space to share concerns.
The Gottman Method Couple Therapy was founded by Dr's John and Julie Gottman and is an evidence based approach that helps to understand why some couples live healthy lives while others resort to divorce or separation. With over 40 years of research the Gottman Method has proven as highly effective for helping couples build better friendship, manage conflict, improve intimacy, and gain a deeper understanding of their partner's inner world.
The therapeutic process largely involves helping couples identify the strengths in their relationship and the areas that need improvement. Often couples who participate in therapy struggle to acknowledge the positive factors that already exist in the relationship. When they realize that positive aspects are already present they gain renewed hope for the future. They also feel motivated to continue engaging in the behaviours that create a healthy bond with their partner. I also offer multiple interventions on the Gottman Method that help couples improve communication skills, as effective communication is a key ingredient to understanding each other's wants, needs, and values.
I have specialized training in working with couples and families. I use both Gottman Method and EFT in my practice to support everyone in the therapy circle.
This is my specialty, and have focused on helping couples. I like to use the Imago couples therapy tools, and have a deep affinity and awareness of this excellent therapeutic approach.
Relationship counselling is for any couple, married, regardless of sexual orientation, who are seeking improvement in communication and the quality of their relationship. It assists couples overcome obstacles to fulfilment in their relationship and can prevent breakdown. Results can range from improvement in communication to exploring limiting patterns and developing more fulfilling dynamics in the relationship. Counselling offers couples an increase in communication skills, enabling the clients to strengthen and enrich their lives together. Relationship counselling with Bach Counselling Vancouver offers the couple a set of practical tools to carry forward, ultimately building a more rewarding union together.
Relationship and Marriage Counselling:
When your relationship is in trouble it can feel like a you have a dark cloud hanging over the rest of your life as well! You and your partner still love each other, although it doesn't always feel that way. You hate the bickering and have tried every way you can think of to resolve your difficulties. But your efforts seems to deepen the impasse, leaving you feeling more and more hopeless. Your frustration is overwhelming. You worry and wonder if the gradual loss of connection could become fatal to your relationship.
Couple and Marriage counselling can be the answer. As a experienced couples counselling specialist, I have helped hundreds of discouraged and exhausted couples find relief and hope. If your current way of communicating with each other is pulling you apart, counselling may be the most important step you can take.
I support despairing partners to identify and step out of self-defeating communication patterns that likely helped you to navigate through your family of origin dynamics but that now, no longer serve you. The process of exploring and sharing insights about your inner world and deeper longings builds safety and trust. You will be supported to hear, understand and respond to each other in new ways that strengthen the bond between you and rekindle the spark of intimacy you dream of. I encourage you to bring peacefulness, optimism and closeness back to your relationship and life.
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1 Years Experience
