Couples Therapy
Relationships can be tough.
Every relationship faces challenges, but that doesn’t mean something is wrong—it may simply be time to seek support. In a safe, non-judgmental space, our therapists help you feel heard, improve communication, and rebuild connection without blame.
Contact us for a free phone consultation.
Are You And Your Partner Struggling
To See Eye To Eye?
Has a sense of emotional distance crept into your relationship? Over time, have you and your partner:
Begun to feel more like roommates than significant others?
Drifted apart from each other due to differing goals and values?
Fallen into repetitive cycles of conflict and miscommunication?
Maybe you feel like you’re just not seen, heard, or understood in your marriage or relationship. Perhaps intimacy has slipped onto the backburner and you feel like you’re operating on different wavelengths. Small disagreements might turn into more serious arguments, creating an atmosphere of tension whenever the two of you are together. For the first time, maybe you’re wondering if it’s time to seek couples counselling.
Your Relationship Might Feel Stuck
When your relationship is struggling, every other area of your life is usually impacted. You might feel frustrated, irritable, depressed, and unable to focus at work. Perhaps you want to address your relationship challenges, but when you’ve tried to in the past, it’s only led to more arguments between you and your partner. As a result, the two of you may end up avoiding conflict at any cost.
If this is how you and your significant other feel, we encourage you not to lose hope. You don’t have to suffer in silence, and you also don’t have to keep arguing in circles when disagreements arise. At Atia Counselling Centre, we offer compassionate, evidence-based therapy for couples looking to deepen their intimacy, learn new communication skills, and interrupt the unhealthy patterns getting in the way of their connection.
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There’s No Such Thing As A Perfect Relationship
From financial insecurity to long working hours to the stress of raising a family, modern life is full of demands that make it hard to cultivate a secure connection. Many couples are struggling to make ends meet, which can turn finances into a point of contention. Others are so consumed with work that they simply can’t make time for each other.
Oftentimes, couples find that their connection changes once they have children. Parenting tends to bring out differences in values and beliefs, leading to unforeseen disagreements and emotional distance.
Although most couples project happy images of themselves on social media, the truth is that most relationships today are struggling to stay afloat. There’s no such thing as a perfect relationship or marriage, and that’s why counseling is so essential.
Many Couples Try To Work Through Their Challenges Alone
Oftentimes, couples end up so overwhelmed with responsibilities that they put their relationship on the backburner and neglect getting support. Other times, they fall under the impression that they should be able to navigate their challenges themselves. This ties into the stigma surrounding therapy in our culture—people imagine that going to therapy is a sign of weakness, or an admission that their relationship is failing.
In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Going to therapy means that you and your partner want the best for each other and are willing to invest in your future together. It’s not an admission of failure, but a sign of strength and commitment. In fact, many couples benefit from counselling even when there’s nothing “wrong” with their relationship.
Therapy Can Help Couples Interrupt Unhealthy Cycles And Increase Trust
At Atia Counselling Centre, our therapists specialize in working with couples from many different backgrounds and walks of life. We offer therapy for couples who are dating, engaged, married, and at all stages of a relationship’s journey. By following our unique blueprint of couples therapy, you and your significant other can ultimately:
- Strengthen your emotional bond
- Boost your self-awareness
- Deepen your romance and intimacy
- Improve your communication skills
- Increase trust and honesty
- Offer greater support during life transitions
Most importantly, couples counselling is an equal process where both you and your partner will be seen, heard, respected, and validated. We’re not here to pick sides, but to build rapport with both of you and help you understand what each of you can do to change your partnership.
What To Expect In Couples Therapy Sessions
In counselling sessions with you and your partner, we’ll explore the core issues, historical traumas, and unhealthy patterns that keep surfacing in your marriage or relationship. We’ll discuss the behaviours that keep you stuck in repetitive cycles and focus on developing new communication skills and conflict resolution strategies. By concentrating on short-term goals that foster change, you can ultimately create long-term outcomes for a healthy relationship.
Tailoring Our Approach To Couples Therapy
Our therapists draw from a wide variety of evidence-based interventions to help couples, as we recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to counselling. Some of the main interventions we utilize include:
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), which focuses on how unmet needs contribute to conflict in a relationship and uses a process of reflective listening to help couples communicate those needs clearly and effectively.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), an approach that explores how a couple’s automatic thoughts and core beliefs (e.g., “My partner never listens to me”) get in the way of healthy communication.
- Mindfulness Practices for calming a couple’s stress responses so that they can be present in the moment and express their needs without anger or hostility.
Through an approach that is multifaceted, solution-focused, and evidence-based, we’ve been able to help many couples gain a deeper understanding of each other’s needs and ultimately increase their trust in one another. We’re confident that we can do the same for you and your partner.
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Atia Counselling Centre provides therapy for couples from all walks of life throughout Ontario. If you and your partner would like to learn new techniques for strengthening communication and increasing closeness, we encourage you to connect with us. To get started, call us at 905-418-2028, fill out the contact form, or use the Jane App to book a 15-minute phone consultation.
Our Couples Counselling Experts
Samira Gebhardt
REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPIST (Q), MDIV
Samira specializes in using Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) when working with couples who struggle with communication, trust issues, intimacy, and parenting.
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