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

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.

Relational issues are central to the struggles and challenges that people bring to therapy. Many couples just want to enhance their relationship by learning better ways of coping with stress, increasing the intimacy that they experience with one another, or learning more effective communication skills. We often get stuck in patterns that no longer work for us and they get in the way of our relationships. Couples counseling can be a proactive way of changing the way you are doing relationship. Emotionally Focused Therapy is central to the work that we do in couples counseling. Identifying patterns of communication that no longer work and incorporating new ways is key.

In a time and place where over 50% of marriages end in divorce, it is to be expected that couples need support in their relationships! Research indicates that couples often wait as long as seven years before seeking professional help. Don't delay, couples counselling can teach you new ways of communicating, so that you truly feel heard; can teach you ways to reconnect with your partner, and to stop replaying old arguments and other negative patterns.

Each of us are raised in different circumstances, and experience different parental standards or self-deveoped standards, often as a reaction to parental standards, but often through self-discovery as well. Research has also indicated that many relationships experience difficulty because of different core beliefs in several major areas such as: the handling of money; parenting/discipline methods; sexual incompatabilities regarding frequency type of sexual interaction,etc,; religion/spirituality; problem solving; self-esteem; chore sharing; spousal absence for long periods; and others. My approach is to identify the differences, develop a course of mutual agreement and compromise.

Deborah has a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Alberta and has completed a variety of specialized training sessions on couples counselling. Through her private practice, Central Alberta Counselling, Deborah offers therapeutic services in two locations: Lacombe and Red Deer, Alberta . Please visit www.centralabcounselling.com or call 587-876-2632 for more information.

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.

The employment of Family Systems Theory, Structural, and Bowen Family therapies support couples in addressing a wide range of relationship challenges through building insight, communication skill development, and a co-creation of expectations in relationship. The use of conjoint marital/couple therapy includes the use of joint and individual therapy sessions for the couple that support a thorough exploration of perspectives and individual issues that influence the health of the couple system.

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.

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.

[NOTE: MY OFFICE IS IN CALGARY -- I DO VIDEO SESSIONS ELSEWHERE IN ALBERTA]. Your struggles might seem overwhelming now, but most situations can be rectified. I am a psychologist with 31 years of experience. I am also a professor of counselling psychology and I am very familiar with clinical psychology as well. Set up an appointment now before things get worse by going to https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=14249112

I want to help couples improve their communication and reconnect. Being able to address issues between the two of you openly and honestly without anger or upset is the ultimate goal. Using a technique called Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) which has been shown to be 70-75% effective in making lasting positive changes, reducing conflict, and bringing couples closer together.

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.