Great Couples Counselling in Bowden, AB. Therapy to heal relationships.

I work with couples involved in any stage of development or relational style including alternative lifestyle approaches. I am comfortable working with traditional as well as LGTBQ+ friendly couples and specialize in working with sexuality issues within these couple dynamics as well. I have over 25 years of couples work experience and tend to use a strongly applied approach to get effective results.

Are you and your partner stuck in unsolvable arguments? Does one of you tend to ‘demand’ more while the other shuts down and withdraws? Are you feeling less connected and actually adding stress to each other’s lives instead of reducing it? While frustrating, these are perfectly normal patterns of partnership and there is hope. I would be glad to help you untangle the knots, learning to team up together instead of entering battles over who is right. In doing so, we will unpack past traumas and patterns of behaviour, learning to better communicate and to be safely vulnerable in a way that stands your relationship on solid ground.

I provide a safe and compassionate place to help you and your partner with a variety of relationship issues. I am a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist with the Canadian Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. I use a variety of therapies such as Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Narrative Therapy to help your relationship to grow. Call today to book an appointment.

Keystone Child and Family Therapy offers counseling for couples. Counseling may include healthy communication, premarital counseling, coping with mental or physical illness in relationships, concerns with blended families, affairs, the impact of depression and anxiety in relationships, grief and loss, and facilitating deeper more meaningful relationships.

What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties don’t agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161. DR. FLEMING'S NEW RELATIONSHIP/COUPLES INTENSIVES. www.kevinflemingphd.com/marriage-couples-retreats.php

Working collaboratively with couples goals for the therapeutic process are clarified and established. Using strength based techniques couples counselling can aid in renewing common goals for a relationship and move forward together as a better team. Couples counselling can also help couples clarify individual goals for moving forward and make separation and divorce proceedings more amicable.

We utilize the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy, taking a “research-based approach to creating stronger relationships” in both couples therapy and marriage counselling. We develop concrete strategies to help couples effectively work through their relationship issues. To assist, in our first session we complete a thorough assessment to pinpoint exactly what issues the couple needs to work on, and together come up with goals and an action plan.

In working with couples, I utilize an integrative approach that addresses present relational concerns, as well as explores deeper communicating patterns. Through the process of therapy, couples can learn more effective ways of communication and uncover detrimental patterns of relating to one another. This allows couples to experience a new way of being intimate in their relationship.

We all desire to be in a loving relationship and when there is a problem in our significant relationship we become distressed. We are designed as people to be attached to others, in a close loving relationship. For many years I trained in many different couples’ therapies which helped me understand what was going wrong in relationships. However, the past year I have obtained extensive training in Emotion Focused Therapy which is researched based and has a 75% effectiveness rate to help couples repair their relationship and understand how they used to get caught in negative patterns. The results are transformative as couples are able to regain trust and a secure connection with the person they love.