Relationships

Are you feeling challenged in your relationship with your spouse?  Are you having sexual difficulties? Has one of you had an affair? Do you feel like you are not in love anymore? Are you on the verge of separating?

Counselling can help. 

Relationship difficulties and many other problems have brought couples into therapy.  I work with couples and individuals in intimate relationships to:

• Address long standing conflicts
• Learn to “fight fair” and communicate with empathy
• Foster intimacy and connection
• Sort out the need for solitude versus closeness
• Deal with separation, divorce and parenting issues
• Prepare for marriage and a life together
• Blend two families together
• Address step parenting dynamics
• Create parenting agreements post separation

“In international disputes, as well as in relationship, business, classroom, and parent-child conflicts, we can learn to hear the human being behind the message, regardless of how the message is framed. We can learn to hear the other person’s unmet needs and requests. Ultimately, listening empathically does not imply doing what the person wants; rather, it implies showing respectful acknowledgment of the individual’s inner world. As we do that, we move from the coercive language we have been taught to the language of the heart.”

Marshall Rosenburg, Centre for Nonviolent Communication