Strengthen emotional connection and friendship
Understand and change recurring patterns of conflict
Improve communication and understanding
Explore emotional and physical intimacy
Navigate differences in parenting, responsibilities, finances, family and everyday life
Learn healthier ways to approach disagreements and work together as a team
You may be:
Feeling more like roommates or passing ships in the night
Arguing repeatedly, sometimes over seemingly small things
Feeling alone, unheard, or misunderstood
Feeling as though one person is carrying more of the relationship
Feeling emotionally disconnected
Experiencing changes or difficulties with emotional or physical intimacy
Strengthen emotional connection and friendship
Better understand recurring patterns of conflict
Develop healthier ways of communicating and responding to one another
Explore emotional and physical intimacy
Navigate differences around parenting, responsibilities, finances, family, and everyday life
Develop ways of approaching disagreements and working together as a team
My work with couples draws from evidence-informed approaches including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and systemic couple and family therapy. Rather than focusing only on the issue you are arguing about, we may also explore the patterns underneath your interactions; what happens between you, what each person experiences in those moments, and what keeps the pattern going.
The approach we take will depend on your relationship, your concerns, and what you hope to work on in therapy.
My work with couples draws from evidence-informed approaches, including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, and systemic couple and family therapy.
EFT is a well-researched approach to couples therapy. Research has found meaningful improvements in relationship distress and satisfaction among couples participating in EFT, with some studies reporting that approximately 70% of couples recover from relationship distress following treatment.
Research findings describe outcomes across groups of couples and do not predict how any individual couple will respond to therapy. Every relationship is different, and the approach we take will depend on your concerns, circumstances, and goals for therapy.
Sometimes couples want more focused time than a traditional weekly session allows. I offer half-day, full-day, and two-day couples intensives, providing dedicated time to explore relationship concerns in greater depth.
Intensives may be appropriate for couples experiencing significant challenges such as infidelity or betrayal, loss of trust, recurring conflict, emotional disconnection, or intimacy concerns, as well as couples who want focused time to better understand their relationship patterns.
Sessions are structured around your relationship, concerns, and goals. Depending on what brings you to therapy, we may explore patterns of interaction, communication, emotional connection, trust, intimacy, and ways of approaching difficult conversations together.
A couples intensive is not appropriate for every relationship. An initial assessment helps determine whether this format is suitable for your circumstances.
69% of relationship conflicts are about perpetual problems.
Research by Dr. John Gottman and colleagues found that many of the issues couples disagree about don’t simply disappear. They often involve ongoing differences in personality, preferences, values, or lifestyle.
The goal doesn’t always have to be eliminating the disagreement. Couples can work on understanding the differences underneath recurring conflicts, communicating about them differently, and finding ways to navigate them together.
Source: The Gottman Institute — Marriage and Couples Research
The quality of your closest relationship is connected to your overall well-being.
Research consistently finds an association between the quality of our romantic relationships and important aspects of well-being, including life satisfaction, mental health, and physical health.
Relationships are only one part of well-being, but the quality of our closest relationships can matter to how we experience life overall.
Sources: Reinhardt, Wiedemann & Maatouk (2026); Righetti et al. (2022).
Couples therapy has been studied across a range of approaches and relationship concerns. A large meta-analysis of 58 studies involving more than 2,000 couples found improvements across several relationship areas, including relationship satisfaction, communication, emotional intimacy, and partner behaviours.
Research describes outcomes across groups of couples and does not predict the outcome of therapy for any individual couple.
Source: Roddy et al. (2020), Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Couples come to therapy for many different reasons; from wanting to feel more connected to navigating significant challenges or difficult decisions about their relationship.
Sometimes couples want more focused time than a traditional weekly session allows. Couples intensives offer dedicated time to focus more deeply on your relationship without having to stop after a typical 50- or 60-minute session.
I offer half-day, full-day, and two-day couples intensives for couples who want focused time to explore recurring conflict, communication patterns, emotional or physical intimacy, disconnection, infidelity or loss of trust, or other significant relationship concerns.
Intensives are structured around your relationship and what you hope to work on together. An initial assessment helps determine whether an intensive is an appropriate fit for your circumstances.
Reaching out for couples counselling can feel like a big step, especially when you’re not sure what to expect.
We’ll begin by talking about what has been happening in your relationship, what each of you is experiencing, and what you hope to work on together. From there, we’ll decide whether my approach feels like the right fit for you and your relationship.
You don’t need to have everything figured out before you reach out.
