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

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.

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.

Elisabeth believes in transparency and collaboration. This, of course, only takes its affect when partners learn to communicate better, which forms the starting point of any couple counselling session. A harmonious partnership is healthy for all family members as conflict is draining. With better communication skills conflict can be prevented. Elisabeth has many years of experience in working with couples.There is nothing more rewarding than helping couples to achieve a satisfying relationship.

When someone in a relationship has an addiction to drugs or alcohol, their significant other is also affected by the addiction. The frustrated partners of addicts often despair when communication efforts and sincere efforts to help fail. It is critical for addicts to receive the rehabilitation they need, but without counseling for their spouses and partners, the addict will not return home to a healthy environment. At Valiant Recovery, we offer couples counseling and individual counseling for the spouses and partners of clients who need help processing the impact of addiction, and who are ready to embrace change moving forward.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maureen works with you, using the Gottman Method, 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.

My desire is to help those who have committed to be together to stay together. Do you or your partner have sexual abuse, shame, trauma or addictions in the present or past? We will bring Christian principles, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Gottman tenets together to help you build respect and love for each other or restore those you started out with. I will help you: overcome abuse, personality disorders, communication, anger, addiction and family dysfunction problems; identify how and where the problem started; and how to identify triggers and deescalate cycles to avoid them happening again. Coming to therapy is the first step on a new path together.

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.