Great Couples Counselling in Bowen Island, BC. Therapy to heal relationships.

Couples Counselling offers couples a unique opportunity to address not only their communication styles but also, the health of the attachment in their relationship. Whether you are seeking counselling to improve the quality of your communication or to address a specific obstacles that may be interrupting the trust in your relationship, Bach & Associates will help you. With advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we offer evidenced -based Couples Therapy. EFT is the most progressive and well researched therapeutic interventions used in Couples Therapy.

Couples counselling focuses on developing strong communication skills, conflict resolution techniques, forgiveness, and effective dialogue. Many couples experience frustration at some point in their relationship where they feel they are not heard, valued or even loved any more. A toxic cycle of blaming, fighting and pulling away begins to form, creating distance and fatigue. For others an affair has shaken the very core of the safety and love they once felt in their relationship. It can be an agonizing and terrifying discovery for the partner who has been betrayed, and strong feelings of guilt, shame and a lack of understanding to how it even happened for the offending partner. Whether you are looking for a tune up to build back the excitement and...(view profile to read more)

In couples counselling, you and your partner identify the conflict issues within your relationship and decide what changes are needed in order for both of you to feel satisfied and content. You will learn the strategies that are necessary to move your relationship towards one with greater clarity, mutual understanding, and connection. What are you waiting for? Take a step beyond listening to your best friend´s relationship advice and rekindle the love, respect and friendship you once felt.

When a couple comes to counselling, they are often desperate for help. They have usually been arguing and drifting farther and farther apart. They feel lonely and dissappointed in their relationship. It is my goal as an Emotionally Focused therapist to help couples identify their patterns and behaviors, so they can make better choices and see major improvement. Through therapy, you begin to understand how your behaviors have impacted your partner, and led to the creation of the emotional distance between you. In essence, I give couples the tools they need to feel closer and rediscover the connection and intimacy they thought was lost forever.

Real Solutions to Real Challenges. Common Sense Techniques. Short-term & Cost Effective. All couples are exposed to challenges such as; traumas, accidents, sickness, infidelities, job loss, grief, and unproductive communication cycles. Individuals histories contain our unique interpretation of ourselves and our world and how we currently cope and function. Understanding more about our selves, recognizing unfulfilled intentions, and discharging umcomfortable feeling will produce greater self-acceptance and communion/ imtimacy with our partners

Relationships can become tense, defensive, and hostile. Sometimes, ruptures in trust occur that leave us questioning "should I still be with you?" When our relationships feel insecure, we react often through becoming critical/nagging, or shutting down and checking out. I practice a form of evidence-based couples therapy called Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT). Through EFT, we identify the negative cycle that has come to define your relationship, and work to repair this ruptured attachment bond, helping partners feel safer and freer around one another. This leads to improved intimacy, better communication, and a stronger emotional connection.

One of my passion is the facilitation of communication between two people in whatever stage or type of relationship they may be in. Needless to say, open and frank communication is the foundation to any relationship. Unfortunately, due to many reasons, you may find it hard to express yourself in the way you truly want to. Come and see what 's stuck so that you will have a richer relationship.

All couples have a unique and dynamic bond that comes with its ups and downs. I believe any couple can benefit from counselling and therapy to address the issues they have. Counselling helps us to understand ourselves and the other person and can ultimately bring us closer together. Whatever you are struggling with, I can help you come to a better understanding of each other and yourselves. I can help your relationship overcome the challenges and strengthen the bond between you. I offer support to all genders and orientations and believe diversity makes a happy community. Contact me to start strengthening your bond today.

Couples Counselling supports the perceptions and emotional reality of both individuals while helping each person to understand the differences that may be contributing to any stress or power struggles between them. It also helps each partner to understand the emotional talking style, the love language and the needs of one another, and to learn the relationship skills to bridge any differences so that they can create emotional harmony and continued growth from their relationship. The best case scenario is the couple will learn and grow, and the worst case scenario is they will discover that they are not compatible and respectfully separate and not repeat the same patterns.

Pre-commitment therapy. Research suggests people enter therapy 5 years too late and as a result couples therapy often fails to help a couple heal their relationship. Seeking counselling at the beginning of a relationship can help create a solid foundation on which to build. During the 'honeymoon' phase we generally see all our commonalities but we may avoid exploring values and beliefs that can create problems later on if they take us by surprise.

I have worked with couples and families for years and my focus with them is to help them understand each other. Many times two individuals in a relationship, romantic or otherwise, are frustrated because their needs are not being met or more is being asked of them than they feel they can provide. What most of us fail to realize is that the other person doesn't even know what are needs are because we haven't told them in a way that they can understand. By facilitating improved communication between individuals, I work to strengthen the relationship to the level that was intended from the beginning.

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 with couples is my specialty and my greatest delight. I have seen positive turnaround in many couples who entered my office feeling hopeless. I help couples reconnect through learning to speak to each other in a way that can be be received without defense. Tools are often needed during dire times. I will help you find ones that work for you. My professional training is in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Encounter Centered Couples Counselling and Satir.