Couples Counselling

Couples counselling offers a caring, non-judgmental space where partners can slow down, reconnect, and better understand one another. It helps improve communication, reduce conflict, and strengthen emotional intimacy.

Many couples discover new ways to navigate challenges, deepen trust, and rebuild closeness. Whether you’re facing a specific issue or simply want to grow together, counselling provides tools and insights that support a healthier, more fulfilling relationship.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) is a structured, evidence-based approach that helps partners understand and transform the emotional patterns that create distance or conflict in their relationship. Some benefits include:

Improved emotional connection: Couples learn to understand and respond to each other’s deeper needs, creating a stronger sense of closeness and safety.

Healthier communication: EFCT helps partners move away from criticism, defensiveness, or withdrawal and toward open, compassionate dialogue.

Reduced conflict patterns: By identifying the negative cycles that keep couples stuck, EFCT supports more constructive and supportive interactions.

Greater relationship satisfaction: As couples feel more secure and understood, satisfaction and trust tend to increase.

Healing from past hurts: EFCT provides a framework for repairing attachment injuries, rebuilding trust, and creating space for change.

Long-lasting change: Because EFCT works at the emotional and relational level—not just communication techniques—its effects tend to endure over time.

While Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) can be highly effective for many couples, there are situations in which it may not be the best fit until underlying issues are addressed. EFCT may be not be appropriate when:

There is active intimate partner violence or coercive control.

A partner is experiencing an acute mental health crisis.

Active substance dependence is interfering with emotional presence, reliability, or safety in the relationship.

An ongoing affair or significant deception is occurring.

One or both partners are not committed to working on the relationship.

A partner is unwilling or unable to engage emotionally.