Couples Counselling

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Couples Counselling & Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT)

Therapy Can Make a Difference to Your Life

Transnational Analysis and relationship education have been proven to be effective in improving communication between couples, addressing difficult problems in the relationship, and providing couples with the tools to move forward together or break up on the best terms. Whether you are in the process of separating or want to strengthen your relationship going forward, couples counselling can help you and your partner make the best choices for you and your family.  

Below is a list of the various techniques I use to help your journey: 

  1. Absent Father syndrome
  2. Mindfulness based stress reduction 
  3. EMDR (In training)
  4. Poly-Vagus nerve and somatic experiencing.
  5. Life book story work 
  6. Integrative approach 
  7. Emotional freedom Technique  

Our sessions will be a collaborative process of understating communication patters, unpinning needs and expectations. This helps us to better understand the root cause, as well as to see how it induces distress and disruption in your life currently. Here are just some of the issues we can help you to explore in couples counselling.

  • Anger management
  • Emotional abuse
  • Parenting
  • Loss or grief
  • Divorce and relationships
  • Anxiety or Fears
  • Trans -general trauma 
  • Relationship enrichment
  • Communication and skills building
  • Dealing with Illness
  • Historical trauma 
  • Discernment counselling for those considering divorce
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There are a number of benefits that couples and families can gain from my holistic approch, Some of these include:

Better emotional functioning: 

EFT provides a language for healthy dependency between partners and looks at key moves and moments that define an adult love relationship. The primary goal of the model is to expand and re-organize the emotional responses of the couple.

Stronger bonds: EFT is based on attachment theory, which suggests that attachments between people typically provide a safe haven—a retreat from the world and a way to obtain comfort, security, and a buffer against stress.

Improved interpersonal understanding: EFT helps people become more aware of their partner’s needs. Because of this awareness, they are also able to listen and discuss problems from a place of empathy instead of a place of defensiveness or anger.Emotionally focused therapy can unwind automatic, counter-productive reactions that threaten relationships.

During an EFT session, a therapist observes the dynamics between a couple and then acts as a collaborator to coach and direct new ways of interacting. Unlike some other forms of therapy where the therapist is more of a passive listener, EFT therapists take an active role in guiding the conversation. The therapeutic approach also focuses on addressing emotions and interactions within the session rather than focusing on things like worksheets and homework.

Therapists are empathetic and help couples recognize their emotions as valid. They help couples and individuals recognize behaviours and patterns that they may not even be aware of and see how these actions contribute to conflict in a relationship.

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