Why Marriage/Couple Counselling?

Most relationships that run into difficulty have been falling into a downward spiral for months or even years. It usually takes this long before you seek help from a marriage/couple counsellor.  It’s not as quick as pressing the Refresh tab on your computer but restoring your relationship is very possible. 

Counselling involves working together with a professional to help you transform destructive patterns into positive connection.  It is an opportunity for personal growth and a time to pay attention to your unique patterns of engaging and disengaging each other. Both partners can grow in confidence by learning how to reconnect in an emotionally safe way. 

Counselling Facilitates Empathic Connection 

We need to feel “safe” to reveal what we want and what we feel, without being criticized, or judged.  Problems get solved when the path is softened; it becomes easier to listen and respond when you truly hear what your partner is feeling and value what is important to him or her. Counselling can facilitate compassion for yourself and empathy with your partner - important elements for solving a problem and for developing true intimacy.

 Counselling can help you to take ownership for what’s not working in your relationship and guide you to a more mature and satisfying relationship. Change begins when you both commit to do something about the distance, ongoing conflict and confusion created between you. 

For a free initial consultation, you can contact me by phone at 416 385-1557 or email through the website contact form.