Couples Counselling

Why Do Couples Seek Counselling?

Couples are always growing and changing, and may face an increasing or evolving number of challenges in their relationship. There are many good reasons to try couples counselling, and even couples in a healthy relationship can benefit. Couples counselling isn’t just a final, last-ditch attempt to save a relationship – but also an opportunity for learning and growth to strengthen your relationship.

These challenges or areas for growth could be in the areas of:

• Sex and intimacy issues
• Infidelity
• Communication
• Parenting
• Stress
• Anger issues
• Life transitions
• Relationship and mental health impact of fertility-related challenges
• Cross-cultural issues
• and more.

If you’re willing to address these relationship problems, then you are ready for couples therapy.

What Should I Expect in Couples Counselling?

Couples therapy is a form of psychotherapy applicable to both married partners and non-married partners of any gender or sexual orientation. The duration of therapy depends on the issues being addressed.

Typically during your first session, it’s the therapist’s responsibility to set the environment for confidential dialogue, which in turn will enable you to hear each other out, learn effective communication strategies, gain an understanding of what your unique issues may be, and actively work on them. This exchange will also enable you to hear what your partner is actually saying. The therapist can also act as a professional mirror or give a third-party perspective.

Couples counselling should not be seen as an opportunity to place blame solely on one partner, but rather as an opportunity to learn and grow as an individual, and as a partner in the relationship. Couples therapy is a team process requiring teamwork – it’s an investment in your relationship that can improve how you communicate, problem-solve, and express yourself in your partnership.

Why Insight for Couples Counselling?

Inclusive Care

Insight is proud to provide LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC affirming care, with a team of therapists as diverse as the couples they support.

Evidence-Based Approaches

Insight’s couples therapists use a variety of evidence-based approaches, depending on the couple’s needs. Your therapist will always work with you both to determine the best fit! For example, we offer:

• Gottman couples therapy believes that couples need to be able to work on becoming better friends, learn to manage conflict, and create ways to support each other’s hopes for the future. The foundation of Gottman couples therapy is based on Dr. John and Julie Gottman’s 40+ years of clinical experience and research that is based on interventions and exercises that are structured, goal-oriented and scientifically based.
• Gottman relationship check up is a questionnaire that is composed of 480 questions about friendship, intimacy, emotions, conflict, values, and trust, as well as parenting, housework, finances, individual areas of concern, and more -it’s designed as a tool for use by the therapists at Insight Psychological in a therapeutic setting.
• Emotionally focused therapy is based on observations and experience – it looks at emotions and emotional intelligence, which helps support stronger and more secure relationships by helping better understand how our actions impact others.

Couples Counselling That Fits Into Your Schedule

With a team of over 55 therapists across 6 locations, same-day or next-day availability with many therapists, evening and weekend availability, and both in-person and online session options, Insight is fully prepared to meet you and your partner where you’re at.