Great Couples Counselling in Forest Lawn, AB. Therapy to heal relationships.

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.

Couples counselling with me focuses on strengthening connection, improving communication, and helping partners better understand one another’s emotional needs and patterns. Rather than taking sides, I work collaboratively with both partners to identify cycles of conflict, reduce reactivity, and create more effective ways of relating. Drawing from approaches such as the Gottman Method and emotionally focused principles, we work on rebuilding trust, increasing emotional safety, and developing skills for healthy dialogue. Couples often benefit by feeling more understood, less reactive during conflict, and more capable of working together as a team.

Helping couples can mean taking with a couple who has been dating for a few months and wants to improve their chances for success or couples who have cohabited for up to twenty years. I used the evidence based method of Gottman couples therapy and EMDR. These research based methods give clients in my opinion the greatest chance for success.

We offer couples counseling and focus on the strengths of each couple to assist them in working better as a team. We help each couple learn to validate each other and encourage open and honest communication with each other. We seek to instill hope and respect into each couple with whom we work. Our therapists offer couples counseling in person in Duluth and Hinckley; as well as, online through E-Services.