COUPLES COUNSELLING
Whether you are dating or in a committed relationship, or just wanting to learn how to be in healthy, happy relationship, couples counselling can help! We are here to help you get out of a never ending cycle of defeat, and into a more empowered, healthy relationship.
Couples Counselling Offers Hope for Hurting Relationships
If you can relate to any of the above, there is hope. Change CAN happen, even if you're not sure how. Through using research-based therapies, such as the Gottman method or Emotion Focused Couples Therapy, we will help you discover what's working and what's not working in your relationship and use this to partner with you in building a healthy relationship.
This is What is Possible with Couples Counselling:
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Learn how to deal with conflict without getting stuck in repetitive communication patterns.
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Grow to know your partner on a much deeper, intimate level.
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Build fondness and appreciation for your partner.
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Build back trust that has been broken.
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Grow respect, closeness, and affection.
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Move past hurts and pains that have happened in your relationship.
Couples Counselling can help you find better ways to resolve conflict.
If you are ready for change, or even curious about change, please call - 604-454-4516 - or email info@revivecounselling.com to find out more information or to book an appointment.
1. Gottman, J. (1999). The marriage clinic: a scientifically based marital therapy. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., Inc.
If Your Relationship is Struggling, You Might be Able to Relate to the Following:
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You feel a lack of intimacy or closeness with your partner.
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The term "room-mates" has crossed your mind to define your relationship.
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You feel misunderstood, frustrated, and like your partner doesn't care about you.
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You feel a sense of loneliness or distance around your partner.
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Time to connect doesn't happen. You don't know much about each other anymore.
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Conflicts get nowhere, they just result in a back-and-forth debate about what each person wants.
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You feel exhausted around conflicts with your partner that keep on happening, but don't change anything.
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Conflicts may have even stopped because you've just given up.
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You feel defensive or on guard with your partner
Couples Counselling Has Come a Long Way
Sometimes when we think of couples therapy, we think of each person saying what bothers them about their partner and the therapist assessing who's right and who's wrong. This is not how we conduct couples therapy. Each individual will have a chance to say their perspective, but the focus isn't on who's right and who's wrong. Instead, the focus is on building stronger ways of communicating and deepening your relationship connection. Often getting to the underlying attachment wounding and the deeper reason why the stuck issue there is much more helpful.
John and Julie Gottman, the creators of Gottman Couples Counselling, researched over 3000 couples for more than 40 years and found that about 69% of relationship issues are not directly solvable. 1 This is a HUGE amount! Which means that trying to figure out a clear solution for every issue will not always work.