Great Couples Counselling in Clearview, ON. Therapy to heal relationships.

Relationships are work in which both parties have to be committed to resolving any arising issues. Often, a lack of communication, having unsatisfied emotional needs and expectations causes constant arguments between couples. Therefore, couples seek outside help when they are unable to resolve the conflict between themselves due to other issues or underlying conflict. In therapy discussing each other’s thoughts and feelings about the issues helps couples to get to know each other once again and also help them to better understand their spouse as well as themselves. As a result, the couple may acknowledge the root of the disruption and the changes needed to mend the relationship.

I will help you transform your relationship to a place of healing, strength and renewal, enabling you to nurture that which you love. I will assist you to improve communication skills, conflict resolution skills, emotional and sexual intimacy and negotiate your needs more effectively in your relationship. I will help you to discover how unresolved issues from the past get displaced into your current situation and how to resolve this. You will learn how your partner needs to be shown love and he/she will learn to reciprocate. Learning how to love your partner and understanding what makes your partner tick is the foundation to a happier, healthier and secure relationship.

In 2015, I began studying the PACT (Psychobiological) Model for Couples Therapy. Using this model, I am passionate about working with couples. Based on "secure-functioning", you discover exactly, what you wanted but didn't know how to get there. Increasing your awareness on many levels gives you many more options. Discover how you and your partner can feel the way you long to feel and experience a warm safe loving relationship. Rediscover the promise held within the love and attraction that brought you together.

Couples counselling focusses on enhancing your relationship with your partner. You may do this type of therapy with, or without, your partner. Benefits to your relationship still can come from attending couples sessions on your own, such as, improving communication skills, developing assertiveness, overcoming resentments, improving intimacy, learning new ways to deal with your partner. When attending with your partner: * Learning how each of you are in relationships (early influences, patterns, self-defeating styles) * Increasing self-expression * Learning constructive ways to argue and fight * Better understanding of the each other (who you are really dealing with)

Couples often get stuck in negative patterns, or ways of relating to one another. These negative patterns can cause couples to attack each other emotionally, or worse, drift apart emotionally. It is vital to identify the emotions that drive this cycle, and through therapy, learn to create a dance that brings you close to your partner. There is great risk in being in a committed relationship, because there is no one else in the world who can hurt you as much as your partner can. But, on the flip side, there is no one else who can help you feel more loved. It is a greater risk, not to risk with your partner!

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

Relationships are tricky and often emotionally charged. Communication plays an important role in couples relationships, but not to be discounted is the powerful role of emotions and feelings that may be unconsidered. I look forward to helping couples begin to understand themselves, the positive and negative cycles, and the process necessary to truly understand the core needs of themselves and their partner. I believe that couples often have the power to heal their relationships and even their partner when they begin to feel that their own needs are respected, and I look forward to working with you to achieve your relational goals.

I work with both heterosexual and same-sex couples dealing with infertility, communication problems, and trust and intimacy issues. I also help couples using assisted reproductive technologies (ART) with decision making about their family building strategies. Whether or not a couple is facing a life crisis, such as infertility, communication problems often cause the relationship to break down. Often learning new ways to manage conflict can allow couples to reconnect. I try to offer couples opportunities for discovery and experience in session, as well as giving them the tools to rebuild intimacy and trust independently.

Are you contemplating divorce? Does your spouse want a divorce? Has your relationship reached the breaking point? Are you feeling disrespected, mistrustful? Is your spouse (or yourself) looking outside the marriage? Do you suffer from lack of intimacy or sexual desire? Believe it or not, these are all good signs that you still care and and have the intention to save your marriage, if you could. What if you found a way to make your partner understand your needs and created a relationship that was long-lasting and mutually fulfilling? Divorce Prevention has saved countless families from the harm and permanent aftermath that a divorce could inflict on your life. Even after infidelity.

Good relationships require work. It all seems so easy at the beginning, but life can get in the way, and all of a sudden we're feeling disconnected, irritated, or even resentful of our partners. Let me help you get your relationship back on track. By focusing our attention on what works and clear goals, we'll avoid the blaming and polarizing that can happen in couples counseling. You'll leave our sessions with specific tools and strategies to help you increase and improve communication, and move past the hurts and obstacles of the past. It is possible to recapture the loving feelings you once had! And it's never too late to have a great relationship.

Seeing a couples therapist is often stigmatized as "the beginning of the end" of a relationship. More often than not, however, it's a way to open up channels of communication between two people (sometimes members of a company) so that they may understand what's going on, and how they might be contributing to it. I also recognize a systems approach to couples therapy, and encourage working with the individuals in a relationship as well as together.

I believe that even that best of relationships can sometimes be boggled down by life's unexpected pitfalls and challenges and sometimes it's the people closest to us that we end up misunderstanding and hurting . I aim to help partners understand what gets in the way of their ability to support one another. There are so many things in this world that stand to divide and alienate us from those we love, My goal is to help partners get back to intimacy, love, and trust in order to build a stronger and more resilient partnership. I help partners fighting against each other to come back together, so that as a team, you can work together in tackling all that life has to throw at you.

Our most intimate relationships are where we are often challenged the most to grow. Much of my work with couples is helping each person feel entitled to their feelings and feel able to advocate for their needs within the relationship. So often we have expectations of how our partner or spouse is supposed to be, how we are supposed to be with them and there are unspoken expectations to navigate between us. These assumptions can easily lead to very destructive patterns that we act out with the person we want to feel the closest to. Our work is to strengthen ourselves from the inside out so that we can meet our partner "full of ourselves" and then find ways to be together that are a win win!