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

I focus on helping couples take responsibility for themselves within their relationship. I encourage each person to be the first to act maturely. I focus on improving communication through promoting an understanding of the patterns that underlie communication and teaching skills to promote calm interaction that enhances problem solving. Couples counselling includes couples who are dating, living together, and married.

Being in a relationship can be difficult, particularly in a culture that has become increasingly individualistic. We fall into unhelpful relational patterns that leave us feeling angry, indifferent, or ashamed. We inflict emotional pain on our partners and we don't even understand why we are doing it. But it doesn't have to be this way. Using aspects of relational life therapy, internal family systems and more, we will go through a process of healing, designed to shift the relationship toward greater understanding, love, and connection.

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.

I enjoy and welcome working with couples. You will learn specific conflict and communication skills which begin with learning to manage your physiological reactions to your partners behaviours as well as mood management and mind work which contribute to the ability to communicate positively. You will also learn the skill of having emotionally focussed conversations which will further contribute to successful communication

Creating stronger relationships through the research- based Gottman approach. Couples who wish to develop a deeper awareness and connection in their relationships will benefit in using E- Counselling to enhance communication and bonding. Often when we are in a face to face conversation we are thinking of our next response rather than allowing the other person to be understood. Using a secure and completely confidential web based Gottman trained counsellor will help break down the barriers of communication and improve relationship dynamics. Couples can expect more understanding, respect and intimacy in their relationship. LGBT relationships are welcome.

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

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.