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

Positive relationships have a remarkable impact on our lives. A sense of well-being and emotional health can be impacted heavily by relationships. Sometimes, when relationships are no longer positive, it can be distressing, leaving individuals feeling betrayed, upset, cut off and even angry. Working with couples in a supportive, caring way, together, we will explore your issues to improve communication and to discover a rekindling of your relationship.

Relationships begin with so much hope and promise for the future: passion, love, intimacy, acceptance, belonging, and security. Then familiarity follows along with responsibility. The downfall starts with complacency and perhaps even resentment for the failure to live up to the promise of what could have/ should have been. Sound familiar? The above scenario is a common, and likely simplistic, description of a relationship in decline. Other factors can also disrupt plans such as a breach of trust or a traumatic experience. In counselling, we will help to re-connect you with your values and beliefs while improving communication and re-defining what it means to be in a relationship.

Navigating today's world with constant demands can place extra stress on any marriage or relationship. We often feel invisible, and may struggle to communicate what we need or even why we need it. The longer we feel our needs are not met, the more frustrated and angry we may become. This in turn, may trigger defensiveness in our partner, and lead to more frustration on both ends. We use The Gottman Method in couples counseling to help you reconnect and communicate in a way that is safe, compassionate, and allows you to feel heard. Every now and then even the strongest relationships need a bit of maintenance and a tune-up can help get you back on track!

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.