Invest in Your Relationship
Our early relationships shape how we experience our adult ones. Because our partner relationship is so close, it is often where old patterns and fears are most easily stirred.
You may notice repeated arguments, confusing reactions, or a sense of distance even when you care deeply. These patterns often come from how you first learned to seek closeness or protect yourself.
Relationship therapy offers a space to understand what’s happening between you and to begin relating in ways that feel safer, clearer, and more connected — with communication, intimacy, and trust at the centre.
What I Can Support You With
Exploring how past experiences are influencing your current relationship
Feeling safer with one another, especially in moments of vulnerability
Deepening intimacy while strengthening healthy boundaries
Understanding the meaning beneath your words, reactions, and behaviours
Building empathy and understanding for yourselves and each other
Supporting one another through life transitions
Learning how to live with and respect difference
Repairing after rupture, or navigating separation and divorce
Rebuilding trust after infidelity
Our first step is to meet and talk about what has brought you to therapy. I’ll invite you to share what you understand about the difficulties, and what you’ve already tried that hasn’t helped. From there, we begin shaping a shared understanding of your relationship and what you hope for moving forward.
We explore your dynamic together — the roles you each tend to take, how conflict develops, and what keeps the cycle going. Insight is important, but real change happens when behaviour begins to shift. For that reason, I may offer small (but effective), practical tasks between sessions so you can practise relating to one another in ways that feel more supportive, respectful, and connected.
“We live in the shelter of each other.”
— Celtic saying
Frequently Asked Questions
+ Who is Relationship Therapy For?
Relationship therapy can support people in many different kinds of relationships. This includes heterosexual and LGBTQ+ couples, intercultural and interracial relationships, people at different life stages, and couples who are dating, engaged, married, or redefining their relationship.
There is no single “type” of couple who comes to therapy. What matters is a willingness to reflect, to listen, and to explore what is happening between you.
+ When might couples therapy be helpful?
Many couples and partners come to therapy when communication feels stuck, when trust has been strained, or when they feel distant or unsure how to move forward together. Others come simply because they want to understand each other better or strengthen their relationship.
There is no perfect moment to begin. Some couples come early, others much later. Therapy is less about timing and more about your willingness to look at what is happening between you.
+ What if we’re not sure whether it’s too late?
Relationship therapy is not only about “saving” a relationship. It is about understanding it.
Even when things feel fragile, therapy can help you clarify what has happened, what still matters, and what each of you needs. Sometimes that leads to repair and reconnection. Sometimes it leads to clearer, kinder decisions about how to move forward. Both outcomes can be meaningful.
What happens in couples therapy?
In relationship therapy, we focus on helping you understand your relationship more clearly — how you connect, how you protect yourselves, how you argue, how you love, and how you lose each other.
We explore the kind of relationship you want to build together, as well as the personal and relational patterns that may be getting in the way. The aim is not to decide who is right or wrong, but to increase understanding, honesty, and choice.