Evidence-based, Trauma-informed
Tailored Specifically to Your Needs
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Change Doesn't Happen In a Straight Line
It's messy, nonlinear, and deeply personal—and what works for one person might not work for another.
That's why I don't believe in a one-size-fits-all method.
Instead, I draw from multiple evidence-based approaches to create something tailored specifically to you, your challenges, and your goals.
Whether you're working with me individually, with your partner, or as part of a team, my approach remains the same: curious, compassionate, and committed to helping you access your own wisdom and strength.
A Holistic Approach
I believe in honoring all of who you are—mental, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual—within the context of your unique cultural background.
This means we work with your whole system
Your thoughts and beliefs shape how you see yourself and the world. We'll explore the stories you tell yourself and the beliefs keeping you stuck.
Your emotions carry important information. Rather than pushing feelings away, we'll learn to listen to what they're telling you.
Your body holds wisdom your mind may not have words for. Real change happens when your nervous system feels safe enough to let go.
Your parts (from Internal Family Systems by Dr. Richard Schwartz) all have important roles—even the problematic ones. When your parts feel heard, they can relax and let your true Self lead
Your relationships, spirituality, and culture shape your experience. We honor what gives your life meaning and respect your identity throughout our work.
When we engage all these dimensions, real transformation becomes possible. When one part shifts, everything else follows.
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Specialised Frameworks
My work is grounded in evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches that I integrate based on what's right for your unique situation.
Rather than seeing your inner critic or anxious part as problems to eliminate, we get to know them, understand their protective roles, and help them work collaboratively.
Developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz in the 1980s, IFS helps us understand and work with the different parts of you.
When your parts feel heard and unburdened, your true Self—characterised by curiosity, compassion, clarity, and calm—can lead.
IFS is particularly effective for:
- Regaining perspective as you get to see your ‘whole’ system
- Transforming unwanted habits and behavioural patterns
- Working with social anxiety and performance anxiety
- Healing specific fears and trauma responses
I hold a Level 2 Certificate in IFS and integrate this framework throughout my work.
Based on Dr. Stephen Porges', this approach recognises that you can't think your way out of a dysregulated nervous system.When your body is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze, positive thinking won't bring you back to calm. Real change happens when we work directly with your nervous system
Understanding the Three States:
1. Safe & Social (Ventral Vagal): Calm, connected, present
2. Fight or Flight (Sympathetic): Anxious, activated, ready to react
3. Freeze or Shutdown (Dorsal Vagal): Numb, disconnected, collapsed
Your nervous system can get stuck in survival states—even when the threat is long gone. You might be constantly anxious (stuck in fight/flight) or numb and shut down (stuck in freeze).
These are automatic responses that happen before your thinking brain gets involved—you can't logic your way out.
During sessions, we:
- Build awareness of your nervous system states (Am I activated? Shutdown? Calm?)
- Work with your body through gentle somatic practices—breathwork, grounding, movement
- Help your nervous system feel safe (not just think it)
- Release stored survival energy trapped in your body
- Practice orienting to safety so you can return to calm more easily
Particularly Effective For:
- Chronic anxiety and hypervigilance
- Trauma and PTSD
- Dissociation and numbness
- Panic attacks
- Difficulty feeling safe in relationships
- Emotional dysregulation
- Chronic stress and burnout
Why This Works:
Your nervous system is designed to heal—it just needs the right conditions. When we create safety, connection, and gentle pacing, your body can release survival patterns and return to calm.
The result: You feel more grounded, present, and able to engage with life—not through willpower, but through genuine nervous system regulation.
In essence: We work with your body's wisdom to help your nervous system feel safe again—so you can move out of chronic stress or shutdown and into calm, connection, and presence.
A modern, evidence-based approach that works directly with your brain's pre-conscious processing—before your conscious mind even gets involved. Particularly effective for anxiety, panic, phobias, unwanted habits, and issues where you know logically something shouldn't bother you, but it still does.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
A therapeutic approach that uses guided relaxation and focused attention to access the subconscious mind—where automatic patterns, deeply held beliefs, and emotional responses are stored.
Unlike stage hypnosis, clinical hypnotherapy is a collaborative, controlled process where you remain aware and in control throughout. It's simply a deeply relaxed state that allows us to work with the part of your mind that drives automatic behaviors and beliefs.
During hypnotherapy sessions, we:
- Access the subconscious mind where habitual patterns are formed
- Identify and modify negative thought patterns, behaviors, and limiting beliefs
- Install new, positive patterns that support your goals and well-being
- Work with the mind-body connection to create lasting change
Clinical Hypnotherapy is particularly effective for:
- Breaking unwanted habits (smoking, nail-biting, procrastination)
- Reducing anxiety and stress responses
- Improving sleep
- Managing chronic pain
- Building confidence and self-esteem
- Overcoming phobias and fears
- Changing limiting beliefs ("I'm not good enough," "I can't change")
What makes it powerful:
- Change happens at the subconscious level—where automatic responses live—making shifts more natural and lasting than willpower alone.
In essence: Clinical hypnotherapy helps you access the deeper part of your mind to release old patterns and create positive, lasting change.
Human Givens Approach
A practical, solution-focused approach based on the understanding that we all have innate emotional needs and natural resources—and when these needs are unmet or resources underutilized, we struggle.
The Human Givens framework identifies essential emotional needs:
- Security (safe environment, emotional connection)
- Autonomy and control
- Attention (to give and receive)
- Connection to community
- Meaning and purpose
- Achievement and competence
- Privacy (time to reflect and process)
And innate resources:
- Memory, imagination, and reason
- Ability to connect with others
- Self-awareness and observing skills
- Capacity for problem-solving
During sessions, we:
- Identify which needs are unmet (What's missing in your life right now?)
- Explore underutilized resources (What strengths aren't you using?)
- Put practical tools and strategies in place to help you regain balance, confidence, and drive
Human Givens is particularly effective for:
- Anxiety and depression (often rooted in unmet needs)
- Feeling stuck or unfulfilled
- Lack of motivation or direction
- Rebuilding confidence after life changes
- Creating practical, actionable solutions
In essence: We work together to ensure your fundamental emotional needs are met in healthy, balanced ways—so you can thrive, not just survive.
A collaborative, client-centered approach that focuses on you as naturally creative, resourceful, and whole—not broken or needing to be fixed.
Unlike traditional therapy which explores past wounds, Co-Active Coaching is forward-focused: clarifying what you truly want, identifying what's blocking you, and creating actionable steps to get there.
Co-Active Coaching helps you:
- Clarify your goals and vision (what do you actually want?)
- Overcome limiting beliefs and patterns
- Make confident decisions
- Build accountability and take action
- Navigate life and career transitions
I integrate Co-Active Coaching when you need:
- Clarity more than healing
- Action more than insight
- Empowerment to lead your own life
In essence: We work together as equals—I help you access your own wisdom and take concrete steps toward the life you desire.
Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, EFT is a widely recognised and empirically validated therapeutic approach with a 70-75% success rate for distressed couples—and the effects last.
EFT is grounded in attachment science: the understanding that we are wired for connection, and our deepest pain comes from feeling disconnected from the people we love most.
When couples struggle, it's rarely about the surface issues (money, sex, parenting). It's about the underlying emotional bond—and whether you feel safe, seen, and securely attached to each other.
How EFT Works
EFT helps you understand and reshape the emotional dance between you—the patterns that create distance and the vulnerable emotions driving them.
During EFT sessions, you move through three stages:
STAGE 1: DE-ESCALATION (Weeks 1-4)
Identify Your Negative Patterns of Interaction
Every couple has a cycle—a repetitive pattern of interaction that creates disconnection.
Common cycles:
- Pursue-Withdraw: One partner pursues (asks, criticizes, demands connection), the other withdraws (shuts down, avoids, goes silent)
- Attack-Defend: Both partners attack and defend, escalating into conflict
- Withdraw-Withdraw: Both partners shut down and avoid
In this stage, we:
- Map your specific cycle (What happens? What triggers it?)
- Help you see: The cycle is the problem—not each other
- Begin to slow down the cycle so you can step out of it
The goal: De-escalate reactivity and create safety.
STAGE 2: RESTRUCTURING (Weeks 5-10)
Access and Express Your Deeper Emotions and Needs
Beneath the anger, criticism, or withdrawal are vulnerable emotions:
- Fear ("I'm afraid I'll lose you")
- Hurt ("I feel invisible to you")
- Longing ("I miss you—I need to know I matter")
- Shame ("I feel like I'm failing you")
Most couples never get here. They stay stuck in secondary emotions (anger, frustration) and protective behaviors (criticism, withdrawal).
In this stage, we:
- Help you access and express your primary emotions—the softer, more vulnerable feelings underneath the reactivity
- Create a safe, empathetic environment where you can share these deeper emotions without fear of rejection or attack
- Help your partner hear and respond to your vulnerability (not defend or dismiss it)
This is where the transformation happens: When you can say, "I get angry because I'm scared I don't matter to you," and your partner hears it and responds with compassion—the bond begins to heal.
The goal: Reshape your emotional responses and create new, healing interactions.
STAGE 3: CONSOLIDATION (Weeks 11-12+)
Solidify New Patterns and Apply Skills to Daily Life
In this stage, we:
- Consolidate the progress you've made
- Practice the new ways of reaching for each other (asking for what you need, responding with compassion)
- Apply the skills and insights you've gained to everyday situations—conflicts, stress, parenting, intimacy
- Create lasting emotional accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement (the foundation of secure attachment)
The goal: Foster greater emotional intimacy, responsiveness, and connection that lasts beyond therapy.
What Makes EFT Unique
EFT doesn't just teach communication skills—it goes deeper.
It helps you understand:
- Why you react the way you do (your attachment fears)
- What you're really asking for beneath the conflict (connection, reassurance, safety)
- How to reach for each other in moments of distress (instead of pushing away)
The core belief: You're not broken. Your relationship isn't broken. You're stuck in a painful cycle—and when you change the emotional dance, everything else shifts.
The Science Behind EFT
EFT is grounded in attachment theory, which shows that:
- We are biologically wired to seek connection with loved ones
- When we feel securely attached, we thrive—we're more confident, resilient, and capable
- When we feel disconnected or insecurely attached, we panic—and we either pursue desperately or withdraw defensively
EFT helps you create secure attachment with your partner—so you both feel safe, seen, valued, and cherished.
EFT Is Particularly Effective For:
- Couples feeling disconnected or distant ("We're like roommates")
- Persistent conflict cycles (same fight, different day)
- Rebuilding after betrayal or infidelity (repairing broken attachment bonds)
- Lack of emotional intimacy (can't be vulnerable, don't feel close)
- One partner pursuing, the other withdrawing (classic pursue-withdraw cycle)
- Repairing attachment injuries (moments when one partner desperately needed the other and they weren't there)
- Preparing for major life transitions (marriage, parenthood, relocation)
What to Expect in EFT
EFT is structured but deeply emotional.
Early sessions might feel uncomfortable as we identify your cycle and the pain it creates. You might feel exposed or vulnerable.
Middle sessions are where the real work happens—accessing deeper emotions, taking risks to be vulnerable, and watching your partner respond with care instead of defensiveness.
Later sessions feel hopeful—you're practicing new patterns, repairing more quickly, and feeling genuinely connected again.
EFT is not quick, but it is transformative. Most couples need 12-20 sessions to complete the process.
In Essence:Emotionally Focused Therapy helps you understand the emotional dance between you, access the vulnerable emotions driving your conflicts, and reshape your bond so you both feel safe, seen, and securely attached.
The cycle is the enemy—not each other. And when you change the dance, you change everything.
Developed by Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt, Imago therapy operates on a powerful premise: the challenges and conflicts in your adult relationships often have roots in unresolved issues from childhood.
Here's the insight: We unconsciously choose partners who mirror both the positive and negative traits of our early caregivers—not to re-wound us, but to give us an opportunity to heal those old wounds in the context of an adult, loving relationship.
During sessions, you will:
1. Understand the impact of your past on your present
Explore how your individual upbringing and family dynamics shape the way you show up in your relationship today—your triggers, needs, and patterns.
2. Gain insight into your relational patterns
Recognise repetitive conflicts (Why do we keep having the same fight?) and understand what's really driving them beneath the surface.
3. Develop healthier ways of relating
Learn structured communication tools like the Imago Dialogue—a safe, intentional way to talk and truly hear each other without defensiveness or reactivity.
4. Work toward healing old wounds
Your partner becomes a healing partner (not your enemy). Together, you can address the childhood needs that were unmet—offering each other what you didn't receive back then.
5. Take responsibility for your own feelings and responses
Move away from blaming each other and toward understanding: "My reaction is about me and my history—not just about what you did."
6. Strengthen your emotional bonds
Rebuild safety, intimacy, and connection by transforming conflict into opportunities for deeper understanding and closeness.
What Makes Imago Unique
Imago doesn't just teach communication skills—it helps you understand WHY you struggle to communicate.
It reveals the invisible forces (childhood wounds, unmet needs, defensive patterns) that drive your conflicts, and it gives you a pathway to heal together.
The core belief: Your relationship is not a mistake. Your partner is perfectly designed to help you grow—if you're willing to do the work.
Imago Is Particularly Effective For:
- Understanding why you chose your partner (and why they trigger you)
- Breaking repetitive conflict cycles ("Why do we keep fighting about the same things?")
- Healing childhood wounds through your adult relationship
- Creating conscious partnership (moving from reactive to intentional)
- Deepening empathy, understanding, and emotional safety
- Couples feeling stuck or distant who want to reconnect
The Imago Dialogue
One of the most powerful tools in Imago therapy is structured dialogue—a three-step process:
1. Mirroring: "So what I hear you saying is..."
2. Validating: "That makes sense because..."
3. Empathizing: "I imagine you might be feeling..."
This creates safety, understanding, and connection—even in the midst of conflict.
In Essence: Imago Relationship Therapy helps you understand how your past shapes your present relationship, transforms conflict into healing opportunities, and strengthens your bond by making the invisible visible.
Your partner isn't the problem. The unhealed wounds are. And together, you can heal them.
Developed by Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, the Gottman Method is a highly respected, evidence-based approach grounded in over 40 years of research with thousands of couples.What makes it unique: Dr. Gottman can predict with over 90% accuracy whether a couple will stay together or divorce—simply by observing how they interact for a few minutes.
The research revealed: Successful relationships aren't about avoiding conflict. They're about how you handle conflict, how you treat each other daily, and whether you intentionally build friendship and shared meaning.
The Gottman Method is structured around the Sound Relationship House—a research-based framework with seven levels that create lasting love:
1. Build Love Maps – Know your partner's inner world
2. Share Fondness & Admiration – Express appreciation regularly
3. Turn Toward Instead of Away – Respond to bids for connection
4. The Positive Perspective – See your partner and relationship positively
5. Manage Conflict – Navigate disagreements constructively
6. Make Life Dreams Come True – Support each other's goals
7. Create Shared Meaning – Build rituals, traditions, and shared purpose
The Four Horsemen (Predictors of Divorce)
Dr. Gottman identified four toxic behaviors that predict divorce:
1. Criticism – Attacking character instead of addressing behavior
2. Contempt – Disrespect, mockery, sarcasm (the #1 predictor of divorce)
3. Defensiveness – Refusing responsibility, making excuses
4. Stonewalling – Shutting down, withdrawing, silent treatment
We help you:
- Recognise when these show up
- Replace them with antidotes (gentle startup, appreciation, responsibility, self-soothing)
- Break destructive patterns before they erode your relationship
During Sessions, You Will:
- Improve communication, emotional connection, and relationship satisfaction
- Learn to navigate conflicts without damaging the relationship
- Strengthen friendship, fondness, and positive perspective
- Build rituals and shared meaning
- Practice research-backed tools that create lasting change
Particularly Effective For:
- Improving communication and reducing conflict
- Breaking the Four Horsemen patterns
- Rebuilding friendship and emotional connection
- Moving through gridlocked problems
- Pre-marital preparation
- Preventing divorce (or deciding with clarity)
What Makes It Powerful:
It's based on real science—observing what successful couples actually do differently—and it gives you practical, proven tools that work in real life.
In Essence: The Gottman Method helps you build friendship, manage conflict constructively, and create shared meaning—using research-backed strategies to strengthen your bond and build a lasting, fulfilling partnership.
It's not about being perfect. It's about being intentional.
Developed by Dr. William J. Doherty and Elizabeth Doherty Thomas, Discernment Counseling is a specialized intervention for couples at a crossroads—when you're unsure whether to stay and work on the relationship or separate.
This is NOT traditional couples therapy.
Discernment Counseling gives you space to pause and gain clarity—without pressure to commit to staying OR leaving yet.
Who It's For:
"Mixed-agenda couples":
- One partner wants to leave, the other wants to stay
- OR both are confused and ambivalent
If you're feeling:
- Paralyzed by indecision
- Pressured to decide NOW
- Confused about whether the relationship can be saved
- Guilty for considering leaving (or for wanting to stay)
Discernment Counseling gives you space to pause and gain clarity—without pressure to commit to staying OR leaving yet.
Your Three Paths:
Path 1: Keep the status quo (stay as-is, no therapy)
Path 2: Separate or divorce (with clarity and dignity)
Path 3: Commit to 6 months of intensive couples therapy
The goal: Clarity and confidence in your decision—whatever it is.
How It Works:
Short-term: 1-5 sessions
Structure: Start together, individual time with each partner, come back together
Focus: Understanding the relationship clearly so you can decide wisely
During Sessions, You Will:
- Reflect on your relationship without immediate pressure
- Understand YOUR contribution to the problems (not just your partner's)
- Explore what you truly want (and why)
- Gain clarity on which path is right for you
- Make a decision you can stand behind (not impulsively, not under pressure)
What Happens After:
Path 1: Continue as-is
Path 2: Move toward separation with support
Path 3: Commit fully to 6 months of couples therapy
What Makes It Different:
✓ It's NOT couples therapy (we're not fixing—we're deciding)
✓ Both partners are treated fairly (no one is pressured)
✓ It reduces impulsive decisions and regret
✓ It creates space for clarity
In Essence: Discernment Counselling helps you pause, reflect, and gain clarity when you're uncertain about staying or leaving—so you can choose your path with confidence and minimize regret.
You don't have to decide today. But you do have to decide thoughtfully.
Developed by Virginia Satir, a pioneering family therapist, the Satir Model is a humanistic, growth-oriented approach that views people as inherently resourceful and capable of change.
The Satir Model takes a holistic view: It recognizes that we are whole beings—mind, body, spirit—and that our well-being depends on the interconnectedness of all these parts.
How I use the Satir Model
I integrate Satir principles to inform and deepen my work with individuals, couples, and families—but I don't use it as a standalone approach.
The Satir Model helps me:
Understand communication patterns
Satir identified five communication stances people adopt under stress:
- Placating (always agreeing, self-sacrificing)
- Blaming (attacking, critical, defensive)
- Super-Reasonable (overly logical, detached from emotions)
- Irrelevant (distracting, avoiding the real issue)
- Congruent (authentic, balanced, grounded—the healthy stance)
By recognizing these patterns, we can shift toward more congruent, honest communication.
Explore family-of-origin influences
Satir believed that much of our relational patterns are learned in childhood—how our families handled emotions, conflict, intimacy, and stress.
I use Satir's lens to help you understand:
- How your family shaped your way of relating
- What "rules" you internalized (spoken or unspoken)
- How those patterns show up in your current relationships
Honor the whole person
The Satir Model emphasizes that you are more than your problems—you have strengths, resources, and innate worth.
This aligns beautifully with IFS and other holistic modalities I use: We're not fixing what's broken; we're accessing what's already whole within you.
The Satir Model in Practice
I integrate Satir concepts when:
- Exploring communication dynamics in couples or families (Which stance are you taking under stress?)
- Helping clients understand family-of-origin patterns and how they impact current relationships
- Facilitating family therapy or mediation—honoring each person's perspective and fostering mutual understanding
- Addressing self-worth and self-esteem (Satir believed low self-worth was at the root of most relational pain)
In Essence: The Satir Model provides a humanistic, holistic lens that informs my understanding of communication patterns, family dynamics, and the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit.
I use it to deepen insight and awareness—integrated with other evidence-based approaches like EFT, IFS, and Gottman.
My Diploma in Psychosexual Disorders, developed by Terence Watt (originator of BWRT and founder of The Essex Institute of Clinical Hypnosis), provides specialized training to address a wide range of sexual health concerns.
This training equips me to support clients with:
- Sexual desire discrepancies and low libido
- Performance anxiety and sexual dysfunction
- Painful sex or physical discomfort during intimacy
- Impact of trauma on sexuality
- Body image and sexual confidence issues
- Sexual identity and orientation questions
- Relationship dynamics affecting sexual intimacy
From simple sexual unhappiness to more complex psychosexual disorders, this training allows me to provide compassionate, informed support—often integrating it with couples therapy (EFT, Imago, Gottman) and trauma work (IFS, somatic approaches).
Sex therapy is:
- Confidential and non-judgmental
- Focused on understanding the mind-body-relationship connection
- Tailored to your values, culture, and relationship structure
- Often coordinated with medical providers when needed
In essence: This diploma gives me the specialized knowledge to address sexual health concerns with sensitivity, expertise, and a holistic understanding of how sexuality intersects with emotional well-being and relationship dynamics.
My Sex Therapy Certification Training from the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute (ISTI), developed by Dr. Tammy Nelson, provides comprehensive, modern training in sexual health and intimacy.
This training addresses:
- Desire discrepancies and arousal concerns
- Impact of trauma on sexuality
- Rebuilding intimacy after infidelity or betrayal
- Non-traditional relationships (consensual non-monogamy, polyamory)
- Sexual identity and orientation questions
- Deepening emotional and physical connection
- Modern challenges (pornography, technology, changing norms)
What makes ISTI unique:
✓ Integrative—combines multiple therapeutic modalities
✓ Relationship-centered—addresses sexuality within relational context
✓ Trauma-informed—recognizes the impact of trauma on sexuality
✓ Culturally inclusive—respects diverse identities, values, and relationship structures
✓ Modern—addresses contemporary sexual and relational challenges
I integrate sex therapy with couples therapy (EFT, Imago, Gottman) and trauma work (IFS, Polyvagal) to provide holistic, compassionate support.
In essence: Comprehensive, modern, trauma-informed training to address sexual and intimacy concerns with sensitivity, expertise, and respect for your unique life and relationships.
My Approach Will Resonate if you:
✓Are willing to look honestly at yourself and your patterns
✓ Want to do the work between sessions, not just show up to talk
✓ Are open to exploring emotions and body sensations, not just thoughts
✓ Value depth and real change over quick fixes
✓ Are curious about understanding why you do what you do
✓ Are ready to try new approaches, even when they feel uncomfortable
This might not be the right fit if:
✗ You're looking for someone to tell you exactly what to do
✗ You want advice without self-exploration or personal work
✗ You're not open to trying approaches that go beyond talk therapy
✗ You're seeking a quick fix without doing deeper work
✗ You're not ready to take responsibility for your part in patterns
Ready to Start?
If something here resonates—if you see yourself in my story, or if my approach feels like what you've been looking for—I'd love to talk with you.
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Your Questions, Answered
Find answers to common questions about my practice, my approach, and how I can support you in living a more conscious and fulfilling life. Can't find the answer you're looking for? Contact me directly.
I provide Mental Health & Relationship Coaching to support couples or individuals, families or groups/teams.
Please check my rates here. My fees are not usually covered by Insurance. You can check with your Provider for further information.
Yes, all Coaching is confidential. Therapists and coaches are bound by ethical and legal obligations to protect your privacy. However, there are exceptions to confidentiality, such as when there is a risk of harm to yourself or others.
No, I work with any type of committed relationship, including dating, engaged, cohabiting, or married couples. My clients come from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds too. The focus is on improving the quality of the relationship and resolving conflicts.
Clients consult when they are facing challenges or conflicts that they cannot resolve on their own. Common reasons include communication problems, infidelity, trust issues, intimacy concerns, and frequent arguments. I also see couples who want to strengthen their relationship prior to getting married or clients who want to separate but don’t agree on the logistics nor parenting issues.
During the first session, partners help me understand their current situation, their relationship history and how they've arrived where they are today. During subsequent sessions, partners uncover what they subconsciously bring to their relationship. I support them in their transformation goals. Gradually partners transform and connect emotionally. The goal is to create a safe and supportive environment for open emotional communication: 'The key to forever lasting change'. I follow a Structured Roadmap to Couple Counselling which is inspired by my extensive training in Couple coaching.
The duration of our work varies depending on the complexity of the issues and the progress made. I have worked with couples who have seen improvement in a few sessions, and others who have benefited from longer term coaching. Some clients prefer to choose pay-as-you-go sessions, whereas others choose the commitment of a 6-Sessions Package.
If one of you is ambivalent about the relationship, we would work with Discernment Counselling (DC) so that you and your partner have the space to discuss your concerns. DC helps couples decide to 1. Stay in the Status Quo; 2. Quit the relationship or 3. Start Couple coaching.
Couple coaching can be highly effective, but there are no guarantees. Success depends on the willingness of both partners to engage in the process, the severity of the issues, and the compatibility of the couple. It's essential to approach couple coaching with an open mind and a commitment to working on your relationship.
Still have questions?
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any concerns or questions. I’d be more than happy to hear from you.
