For over a decade, my team and I have been trusted and experienced relationship counsellors.
No matter what your challenges are, couples need to learn to communicate effectively.
This isn't about yelling, getting angrier or proving your point over and over.
It's about deep listening, knowing what to say, what to ask, and how to respond.
Follow the steps I've designed so you have a clear roadmap of how to communicate slowly and intentionally.
This guide will prevent opening up too many topics at once and help you slow down in a methodical way so that you actually resolve the issue, rather than just feeling overwhelmed and never solving anything.
I’ve designed a step-by-step guide for how to deeply listen and hear your partner when they're talking.
You can use these cards with your partner in a variety of ways:
Print this guide and have it in front of you as you talk about big issues with your partner.
Hold each other accountable for the steps.
You don't have to fully resolve challenges in one conversation. You may need to continue this process over several conversations.
Ask for pauses when you need to, then continue the process.
When it's the other person's time to respond, share the guide with them to follow as they listen to you.
My Private Practice is well known and respected for our couples counselling, and for good reason.
We are a team of deeply passionate, expert relationship therapists with many years of experience and endless training in relationship counselling.
It's like having a cheat sheet to actually resolving your conflicts, getting excited to see each other again, and deepening the beautiful bond you share and want to hold on to forever.
Couples Counselling will masterfully guide you to:
Conscious and effective communication that feels good.
Emotional reconnection that doesn't only happen after a big fight.
Resolve and repair ruptures, fights and misunderstandings quickly.
Re-build your emotional, romantic and sexual connection, so that you're excited to come home and feel alive again.
Build a shared vision together for your future that is relevant to the stage of life you're at now.
Find the balance between focusing on your relationship and supporting each of you as individuals.