Our love relationships provide us with opportunities to feel understood, respected and cared for. 

Maintaining our love relationships provides a host of common challenges. The therapeutic techniques I employ focus on:

• understanding the motivations behind our behaviours from the perspective of our need for connection, autonomy, respect and commitment
• building on the strengths, values and successes of your relationship
• doing something different than what you're doing now
• honouring and respecting the value of your relationship in your lives

​Common concerns that couples counselling can help with include:

• infidelity in the past or present
• sharing responsibilities
• criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling
• negotiating relationship contracts
• resolving conflicts
• parenting decisions and practices
• considering separation and divorce
• establishing and committing to a shared vision
• moving past abuse
• opening your relationship to others

Sometimes one partner will be more interested in couples therapy than the other. Some partners have worries about participating in couples therapy. These worries may include:

• Sharing intimate details of their relationship or sex life with a stranger
• Fear that the therapist will side with their partner, or that their perspective will be invalidated
• Worry about having to talk about feelings

I will work to ensure that each partner feels safe and understood, and that each partner's concerns are validated, better understood, and are taken into account as we work together on moving forward. 
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​I am firmly on the side of your relationship working out. I believe it's possible for all relationships to improve, and together, we’ll figure out how yours can too.

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