Great Couples Counselling in Argyle, MB. Therapy to heal relationships.

Couple counseling is a type of psychotherapy for a married couple or established partners that tries to resolve problems in the relationship. I am trained in psychotherapy and family systems theory.One of my focuses in couple counseling is to gain an understanding of my clients' symptoms and their perspectives on the relationship. I respectfully explore with clients their relationship patterns and interactions. One area of focus is to help clients understand how their interactions are contributing to problems in their relationship. New patterns of relating can then can be developed.

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.

Relationships are the best things in life when they go well and are a source of great distress when they are not going well. Dr. Don Russell has the tools and strategies to turn around troubled marriages and relationships. Hurts can be healed, communications channels can be opened up and feelings of betrayal can be mended. Many couples say, "I can't believe we waited so long, until it got so bad before we got help" It can get better. Why wait?

Couples so often drift into habits of not recognizing each other's attempts to connect. Sometimes a fresh look can help see the blind spots - the things you've stopped doing; the missed opportunities that are essential to a deep bond. I work with couples on identifying and recommitting to love - which is a choice of the will, at the heart of it all.

Couples of all ages, cultures and unique characteristics have come to learn how to deal with issues that keep them from achieving the trust, closeness and intimacy that they both desire. Drawing on years of experience from couples in therapy and the thirty-six years of my own marriage, as well as a passion for this area of life, I've seen couples rediscover their love and passion for each other and their loving homes restored.

Relationship Therapy can help if you are: 1) Having difficulties developing or maintaining a loving relationship 2) Are in a troubled relationship and you're committed to therapy and reconciliation 4) In a damaged relationship and want to determine whether it is worth saving and if both of you are committed to saving it 5) In a relationship that is “over” and you want help processing the emotional fall out of separating, on you and your children 6) Engaged and want to be sure that you are “meant for each other”, I provide relationship or marriage therapy using Emotion-Focused Couples therapy (EFT) to help you heal past wounds, and create the kind of relationship that you desire.