Strengthen Your Relationship With Meaningful Couples Counselling in Melbourne
- Engage with trusted psychologists and counsellors.
- Learn communication skills to better understand each other.
- Rebuild trust and renew emotional intimacy, without judgment.
How Couples Counselling in Melbourne Can Create a Deeper Connection
Our couples counselling in Melbourne can help repair and bring hope to your relationship. Relationship therapy is where our professional Melbourne psychologists and counsellors facilitate discussions about the difficulties in a relationship to foster understanding, strengthen emotional bonding and develop more effective behavioural patterns.
Relationship counselling sessions can help couples address various issues, including:
Miscommunication
Intimacy issues
Differing beliefs/values
Opposing conflict styles
At Solace Psychology, our relationship counsellors provide a safe and supportive environment for couples to explore their relationship challenges and work towards a deeper understanding and stronger bond.
You’ll leave with a renewed sense of emotional intimacy and practical tools to help you overcome any future issues, together.
Types of Couples We Work With
At Solace Psychology, we have relationship counselling services for couples wanting to understand dysfunctional patterns, work through current struggles, and receive support in navigating the end of a relationship.
We also provide individual counselling for those struggling with relational difficulties and dysfunctional patterns.
Dating & Premarital Couples
During the early stages of your relationship, therapy can help establish healthier ways to communicate. These are effective and long-lasting, helping you prepare for a long-term commitment.
Married or Long-Term Partners
After years together, our therapists can help rebuild connection, navigate life changes, or manage recurring conflict for a more fulfilling partnership.
High-Conflict or Separated Couples
A therapist can help de-escalate conflict, create co-parenting strategies and help you manage conversations during separation. In these difficult and complex times, we can help mediate and resolve tensions.
See our Relationship Therapists in a Confidential and Judgment-Free Space
Our Couples Therapy Approach
We utilise evidence-based methods and approaches to improve your communication skills and conflict resolution.
Gottman Method
This is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that allows your couple to create healthier communication. This doesn’t mean removing your problems (every relationship experiences difficult times). Instead, this approach helps you and your partner discuss difficulties with respect and understanding.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
EFT focuses on the idea that strong emotional bonds are what create security in a relationship. Together, we’ll identify negative patterns and help you express to each other that these are stemming from deep emotions.
Attachment-Based Therapy
This form of therapy focuses on improving your relationship by understanding your attachment style and experiences. By doing so, we can heal relationship wounds and build a more secure connection.
We will determine the suitable therapeutic approach for you based on your needs, goals, and circumstances as a couple. We aim to create a more fulfilling and satisfying relationship between you and your partner, building on your strengths.
Your First Session
The first session typically begins with a 60-90 minute assessment, where your therapist will meet with both of you to discuss and gather information about your relationship challenges and goals. We’ll then follow up with a questionnaire and 60-minute individual sessions.
Why Choose Solace Psychology
Evidence-Based Therapy
We exclusively used evidence-based methodologies during our sessions. We can also assist with individual therapy, like trauma counselling or depression and anxiety support.
Experienced, Friendly and Diverse Team
Our warm and welcoming team of psychologists and counsellors in Melbourne have years of experience and offers diverse expertise to suit your unique needs.
Personalised Treatment Plans
We design our treatment plan around your relationship dynamics and therapy goals. No stock-standard approach! Everything is personalised.
Supportive and Safe Environment
Your wellbeing is always our top priority, and you’ll see this reflected in our space. Our practice is always welcoming, and we never judge our clients.
Overcoming Common Challenges
Numerous factors can disrupt or negatively impact relationships. These stressors can manifest into difficult emotions that cause distress and possible conflict between you and your partner.
While the lived experience in every relationship is different, there are some common challenges that many couples experience.
Couples counselling at Solace Psychology provides a safe space for couples to discuss and work through life transitions, big decisions, and specific challenges. These could be:
Having children and differing parenting styles
Infidelity
Aging parents
Marriage
Moving house
Financial stress
It can also help couples build resilient relationships and stronger emotional connections, allowing you and your partner to be better equipped when handling future challenges.
Communication Issues
One of the most common issues couples face is communication problems, which can lead to resentment, disconnection, frustration and communication breakdowns.
Misunderstandings and a lack of clarity can escalate tensions. Often needs are hidden under defensive fight styles and remain unseen and unmet.
A professional counsellor can help couples work through the factors that underlie communication issues, such as poor listening, unhelpful assumptions and expectations, avoidance styles, emotional triggers and non-verbal cues.
We aim to increase openness and a willingness to understand each other’s perspectives, and develop the skill of active listening.
Intimacy Issues & Emotional Distance
Another common challenge clients experience is intimacy issues, which can be exacerbated by sexual discrepancies in desire or preferences, trust issues, difficulty communicating needs and desires, life stressors, feeling distant, and complacency.
Many couples can feel isolated when experiencing these issues, but they are much more common than you may believe. Discussing them in a comfortable space can be the pivotal step to enhancing connection.
Relationship Stress
Couples may also struggle with relationship stress. This stress could stem from outside factors such as financial status, family and friends, or employment status.
It could also stem from issues within the relationship, such as marriage or having children. We help you manage this stress through stress-reducing techniques and strategies you can complete together.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know if we need couples counselling?
There’s no one way to know, as we work with couples for a variety of reasons; from those who have a healthy relationship and want to sustain that by working with a professional, to those who are working through significant relationship issues and need the intervention of a therapist. If you’d benefit from the help of an experienced therapist to prevent future dysfunction or tackle current problems, feel free to get in touch with us.
Does couples therapy really work?
While there’s no guarantee, couples therapists can help develop essential skills, like active listening and validating. Through therapy, you’ll develop the foundational skills to work through relationship difficulties and improve your communication and overall relationship satisfaction.
How many sessions will we need?
The number of therapy sessions really depends on your circumstances and relationship goals. Couples generally experience positive change within 5-10 sessions, but you could require more sessions or individual therapy depending on what you want to work through.
Contact Us
Take the first step towards a strengthened emotional bond by booking couples counselling in Melbourne with us.
Book an Appointment at Solace Psychology
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info@solacepsychology.com
- Address
625 Nicholson Street, Carlton North, VIC 3054
16 Harding Street, Coburg, VIC 3058
- Hours
Sat: 09:00 am – 5:00 pm
Client Support Team is available
Mon – Fri: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Sat: 09:00 am – 1:00 pm