Couple Counselling may benefit you if:

you are having difficulty feeling close and connected,

you want to learn how to effectively support your partner,

your relationship feels shaky,

you are fighting or freezing each other out

before you even understand how you got there,

you are feeling lonely or frustrated

with your partner right beside you,

you are longing for more fulfillment in your intimacy and sexual life, and

your attempts to reach out and make it better have failed.

Working with couples, my training is grounded in  EFCT (Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy), a profoundly healing, transformative, effective, evidence-based form of couple’s therapy. When appropriate, I also use clinical perspectives and interventions from the Gottman Method, Developmental Couple Therapy, Collaborative Couple Therapy, Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma and others.  To learn more about EFCT, I encourage you to visit the main website at http://www.iceeft.com

Couples’ session are 90 minutes long and are recommended every week  as the couple is learning new ways of seeing each other and relating which are sometimes difficult to access outside the therapy room at first.  EFT can often make a very big difference after 3-10 sessions.  Depending on the issues, partners may be encouraged to read  Hold Me Tight  by Dr. Sue Johnson which is a book to be read separately or in tandem with therapy. (video or audiotaping sessions is sometimes a part of the process, with the permission and informed consent of the clients)

Dyadic counselling 

With 28 years of experience as a therapist, I have seen the great value in learning how to work with other important relationships that feel stuck in painful or frustrating patterns such as adult siblings, very close friends, friends who are small business partners, long-term housemates,  platonic partners, parents and adult children and separated partners who still share parenting or other investments.  Please reach out to inquire about this important work.

The fee for a 90 minute couple session is $220. Solo sessions within the context of couple work are 60 minutes at a fee of $160.