Great Couples Counselling in Regina, SK. Therapy to heal relationships.

Couples counselling includes both individual and joint sessions. As a couple, you will work together to establish goals and desired outcomes for therapy. We will focus on resolution of past issues, improved communication and boundaries, and healthy individualism within the relationship. I believe that homework or shared reading between sessions is an important part of maintaining the benefits of therapy. This also encourages couples clients to share their insights and feelings with each other and with the therapist.

Couples of all sorts can benefit from working with a psychologist in counselling to strengthen communication skills and put sound building blocks in place for a lifetime of enjoyment. Your specific issues will be accepted and carefully listened to as we develop a plan to meet your goals. All sexual orientations, race or marital status are welcome!

COUPLES WHO ARE HAVING RELATIONSHIP DIFFICULTIES ARE USUALLY IN 'POWER-BASED' RELATIONSHIPS WHERE ONE IS ATTEMPTING TO DOMINATE. THIS CAN BE MILD TO THE FAR EXTREME OF VIOLENCE AND ADDICTIONS CAN PLAY A MAJOR FACTOR. ANOTHER MAJOR FACTOR IS POOR COMMUNICATIONS. YOU SIMPLY HAVE DIFFICULTY EXPRESSING HOW YOU FEEL. LOW SELF-ESTEEM IS ALSO A FACTOR. I USE EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY FOR COUPLES WHEREBY IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT I CAN ASSIST YOU TO IDENTIFY YOUR STRUGGLES AND EXPRESS THEM ONE TO ANOTHER -COMMUNICATE. 'IT IS TALKING THERAPY' AND LISTENING THERAPY. I WOULD COUNT IT A PRIVILEGE TO ASSIST YOU AS I HAVE HUNDREDS OF COUPLES.

I work with couples to help them recognize what is happening ‘under the surface’ in their relationship that is leading to their pain, distress and deadlocks; and the cycle that they both contribute to. I help them to understand their own emotional responses to the other, and their own emotional and connection needs. I help them to learn how to ask for these and to respond to each other in a way that brings them close to each other rather than further distancing and perpetuating the cycle.

Couples counselling can be beneficial to couples of any age and at any stage of their relationship — dating, engaged, married, or separated — and can benefit couples who feel they are doing well and those who are struggling. Even If you are considering divorce or separation, Mountain Gate Counselling can work with you and your partner to discuss your relationship and help you find ways to work through issues and grow stronger together.

Cristina helps partners improve their communication skills using the mindfulness approach. She will help you express your feelings, frustrations and disappointments in a constructive way, so the partner can understand what you want to communicate. She will introduce you to the “5 Languages of Love”. You will practice how to express love to your partner and how to understand when your partner communicates love to you.

Couple counseling is an area I love to work in. I have worked with many couples who are getting married and want to learn about how they can keep their relationship strong and healthy. I have also helped couples who feel their relationship needs a wake-up and so they may require some suggestions on how to re-new their intimacy. And for others, I have helped them through difficult times like affairs. It is important for couples to feel comfortable with me. I am in a heterosexual relationship but I can work with gay and lesbian couples as well.

Problems in couples often relate to communication and coping patterns that have developed over the lifetime of the individual and trigger unconscious habitual responses from each member of the couple. In couples counselling recognizing automatic defensive response patterns of both partners is important. Recognizing these patterns and the challenges to communication they cause allows change to begin to happen and healing to begin. Communication can then become more related to current challenges and less rooted in experiences from the past.

In postmodern life, relationships take on many forms. No matter which form you choose, no matter your gender, no matter the stage of your relationship, the basic principles of relating to some one else stay the same. I am available to accept who you as you are and to work with you on the challenges you experience in your relationship. I will make use of a variety of counselling styles to challenge obstacles and guide you in working on better communication to enable you as a couple to sustain problem solving and togetherness.

Couples no matter what gender mix or orientation may need help with communication, understanding differences, desire levels, forgiveness and/or coping with change in the relationship. Counselling can give couples some perspective on relationship dynamics and work on communication skills, sexual issues, and/or coping with change or forgiveness in a relationship.

Relationships take and deserve energy and work and often people are not taught the skills they need. Communication and conflict resolution skills can help assist in the creation of a long lasting loving relationship. Investing in your relationship by examining your history (both individually and as a couple), values and attitudes as well as strengthening love, respect and admiration can go a long way towards creating the love you want. Communicating effectively and respectfully as well as making time for your partner and your relationship can contribute to a relationship that is rewarding and has longevity.

Maureen works with you to help you address issues that prevent you, as a couple, from experiencing the relationship you are looking for with each other. She helps you to recognize what is motivating you to react to your partner in a manner that you do. She helps you to develop a picture of the kind of relationship you want, and helps you establish effective strategies and goals that will help you work towards achieving a relationship that is satisfying and fulfilling.

Couples counseling proves very effective when working through issues surrounding grief, loss, and trauma. It is sometimes hard to articulate to your partner aspects of your journey, especially if your partner's experience is different from your own. It can feel like the two of you are speaking different languages and that can get pretty frustrating! This does not mean that either of you are "wrong" or "uncaring." It just means your processing and ways of expressing yourselves are unique to you. Allow me to be your unbiased guide as we work through issues close to your hearts. Couples work is so rewarding.