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

Even the best of relationships can be challenging at times. That’s why couples counselling can make sense at any stage of a relationship. I work with heterosexual and LGBTQ couples to help them overcome various barriers in communication, emotional connection, parenting, or other issues. Often, small changes can snowball into big changes, so it’s worth addressing relationship issues as they arise and gaining tools to apply in your relationship for years to come. I am trained in the effective, research-driven Gottman Method Couples Therapy, which offers practical tools for creating improved connection and communication, and for addressing conflict and problems as they arise.

Fay offers help for relationship issues such as trust, commitment, conflicts or frequent fighting, betrayal, addictions, or feeling like roommates. Fay is well trained in the most effective relationship therapies and she will provide non-judgmental and fair counselling for you and your partner, or for you alone (if your partner will not come). You will learn skills to communicate better, reduce fighting, feel closer, increase affection and intimacy, and solve problems. Fay offers Sat and evening appts. She's been happily married for over 35 years. All welcome regardless of age, gender, faith, race, or culture.

Do you look at your partner and wonder what happened to the sense of connection and intimacy that you once enjoyed? Have the stresses of life, career, and parenting gotten in the way of your relationship? Would you like to learn how to be heard and to hear what is really going on in your partner's heart of hearts? Couples counselling is an opportunity to re-connect and re-discover yourself and your partner. It is a safe forum to air difficult issues , develop skills for effective communication and enhance emotional and physical intimacy.

When couples fight, they usually only address the superficial matters in their relationships. Their fights are often a reflection of some deeper underlying issues or some unmet emotional needs. Using Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and other techniques, Quyn can help you be more emotionally authentic with your mate. You can start to resolve deeper underlying issues relating to rebuilding trust, letting go of control, being more vulnerable, expressing feelings, restoring mutual respect and healing from past betrayals.

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.

Individual therapy is complementary with couple therapy. Clients come in to get individual therapy and then feel the need to bring their partner/spouse to overcome obstacles that are causing stress. I work with both people to create unhealthy and equally respected environment in the home. Each household is different thereby each need of each person is different, I help clients address their needs with their partner. The clients work through worksheets, role playing, make lists and do other exercises that encouraging positive change and healthy communication skills.

I work with couples of different cultures, ethnicities, sexual orientation, genders, and lifestyle. I help couples build on their strengths to improve their communications, increase their feelings of intimacy, support one another more fully when they experience life changes, negotiate their differences and reduce the intensity and frequent of disagreements, and help them remember why they chose each other as partners.

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

My role as a couple's therapist to create a safe haven, a calm bay, for you to make the repairs as needed, for you to re-embark on your journey together, stronger, more connected and back on the same team. The storminess of relationships is as natural as waves in the ocean, our ability to stay connect during the swells and crashing waves is what makes or breaks a marriage, not the wave itself. Our work together focuses on identifying our patterns and our partners patterns as we run for cover in the tumult of the wave. We then work on understanding, supporting and staying reconnected.

I believe that our romantic relationships play a key role in our lives and when times get tough and communication becomes strained, it can be helpful to have a neutral third party to help you resolve whatever challenges you are facing. My approach to couples work is collaborative and supportive yet challenging. I will usually meet with the couple together then with each person independently in order to allow for complete openness. I can help you take that often difficult first step in navigating through the maze of emotions that come with relationship conflict

My work with couples is founded in attachment theory. Our romantic relationships mimic our first relationships as infants. I will help you to understand your individual attachment styles (ways of relating) and how these may be currently working against you. With this new understanding of your partner, you can begin to work together as a team.

I help couples who are struggling with communication issues or who would like to gain a better understanding of each other. It is not uncommon to find your self stuck in a negative communication pattern which is leaving both parties frustrated and confused about how to make a constructive shift. Counselling can be helpful because it can help dislodge this logjam as well as teaching the couple new communication techniques that will enable the two to communicate without blame and judgment. Please feel free to contact me for a free 20 minute consultation.

I am trained in the Gottman Couples Therapy Method developed by renowned therapists and researchers, Dr.'s Julie and John Gottman. This theory is based on over 25 years of research with couples and has been proven to be successful in helping couples overcome their relationship struggles. I use this approach in my work with both individuals and couples. I help clients determine their unique challenges and apply a variety of strategies to mend these challenges.

Do you or your partner suffer from social anxiety and it's affecting your relationship? Social anxiety is a fear of negative judgment from others and it can lead to reduced levels of intimacy, suppressed emotions, feelings of isolation and loneliness and lack of communication. If one or both of you feels anxious socially, your relationship may be suffering too. Contact me for ways in which you can move past social anxiety to a fuller, intimate, richer, relaxed more authentic relationship.

Relationships are work, and each person in a relationship brings their own unique set of baggage to the relationship. Some of it is good and some of it is challenging. Depending on the type of couple (married, dating, common law, heterosexual, homosexual) the goals can be quite different. In counselling we can explore what those goals are and what baggage, or different values are contributing to the challenges. Even though relationships are work, they should also be the greatest place for reward. Working through understanding the goals, expectations, values, emotions and areas of conflict in the relationship, the reward can be achieved.

Most couples get stuck at some point in their relationship. Intimacy is challenging for most us! I have a 2 pronged approach: I teach communication and conflict resolution skills as well as going deeper to discover the driving forces which lead to conflict. Conflict, once resolved, can lead to greater intimacy. The struggles you are facing now are the key to future deeper happiness and fulfillment and an opportunity for growth. I work with all types of couples.

Having difficulties communicating? Fighting too much? Not talking any more? Have you lost that loving feeling? Trying to get past an affair? Love is not always enough - there are relationship skills that every successful couple incorporates. Let me teach you some new skills and help you put the passion back into your relationship. I have been trained by the Gottman Institute which has been researching successful relationships for more than 30 years. Don't wait, call me now at 604-468-7300, and start loving again.

EFFECTIVE COUPLE AND MARRIAGE COUNSELLING I specialize in helping couples resolve those painful relationship struggles that no matter how hard you try, leave you feeling desperate and alone. In a safe and compassionate environment, you will discover new communication patterns that calm fears and strengthen warm connection. Research shows that 86% of couples completing the Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach - my approach - report experiencing greater happiness in their relationship that lasts. BOOK A FREE 15 MINUTE VIDEO OR PHONE CONSULTATION at francesbrowncounselling/janeapp.com or call 604.219.2690

Loving, successful relationships need to be carefully and skillfully nurtured in the following five areas: Emotional, Intellectual, Spiritual, Sexual, Financial. Couples who are ready to do ongoing work on their relationships are richly rewarded with a loving, meaningful and joyful life together. Committed relationships that have the possibility of morphing into long term relationships benefit greatly by being guided by the Gottman research on relationships as well as Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).

I have extensive experience in working with parents and their child or youth on a wide variety of issues. For example: dropping grades, school absenteeism, communication breakdown, anger issues, control and power, oppositional communication, self-esteem difficulties, and self-harming behaviours. I specialize in helping parents better understand their child/youth and youth better understand their responsibilities. My goal is to help child/youth and parents have better communication in order to live happier and healthier lives. I look forward to working with you and your child or teen.

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.

Relationships are critically important to our health and well-being — we need each other to be healthy! In an ideal world, all our relationships are sources of mutual care, support, constructive ways of interacting, and understanding. Relationship pain with our friends, families, intimate partners, and, yes, even our co-workers can cause incredible heartache or stress in our lives. Improving our communication skills, learning about our relationship patterns, and figuring out what leads us to open up or shut down in our important relationships can help us nurture, find, and create more fulfilling, loving, and supportive relationships. I especially encourage queer folks to reach out.

Having a marital crisis? Having trust issues? Have you experienced a betrayal or an affair? Contemplating a separation? Fighting, arguing, just not on the same page about money, work, kids, home, or family. Find yourself distancing from your partner? Starting up a new relationship or contemplating marriage? Not getting the love you want? Whatever your relationship issues I can help. I specialize in couples therapy and I can help you understand the negative loop you may find yourself in. I will give you tools for better, clearer communication, tools to rebuild trust, friendship, intimacy and strengthen your relationship bond and help you move forward in whatever manner works best for you.

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.

Relationships are challenging. No question. But they're incredible teachers. They teach us where the places lie that need healing within each of us, that is, if we're willing to learn. If we are, then the relationship becomes a gift. Both of you win in this case. That doesn't necessarily make conflict any more enjoyable. It's not. But it's possible to work with it so you can identify the root of ongoing struggles, and find ways to put them to rest. Let me help you find purpose in your conflict(s), and find ways to move forward with significantly more clarity about where you'd like your relationship to go.