5 TOP REASONS COUPLES COME TO COUNSELLING

• We don’t communicate
• In the beginning of our relationship there was lots of sex, romance, now?
• We are always fighting over money
• I don’t trust her/him after the cheating
• We argue over how to parent the kids/step-kids
• Not happy. Should we break up? Fix it? or End it?

 

THE SOLUTION—COUNSELLING WORKS FOR YOU

 

Goals of Couples Counselling

• To identify areas of strain, frustation, hurt which add stress to the relationship.
• To find out what you want to achieve for your relationship by coming to counselling.

 

 People before problems

I put people before problems by focusing on getting to know you and your partner learning clearly what your specific relationships issues are.  Here’s what one male client recently told me:

“Barbara, listen: in the past few years we’ve been to three counsellors before we came to you and I want you to know that you are the first one that really does take the time to find out who we both are individually and as a couple. You not only listen but you really hear what I am saying. Yet get me.” B.J. Coquitlam

The Promise

I give you my professional guarantee that when you work with me and use the tools I provide you will leave my counselling services knowing yourself and your partner more than you ever have.

An Agent For Change

I am an agent for change. Very quickly, from first session onwards, I move forward giving you tools that will assist you to move beyond THE PAST—the same old, stuck, circular arguments

You come to me with your relationship in bits and pieces and you both are hurting. Often there is a great deal on the line; kids, other family members, finances, and the amount of time you have already invested in each other.

In actuality you hire me to fight for your relationship. I use a velvet-glove approach.  This means when I come up against your fixed mind sets or emotional resistances that are preventing you to having a relationship that works for both of you, I can be as tough as iron.  I persist, insist, cajole, dispute and prod.

On my watch there is to be no blame. I won’t entertain blame or shame in my session room. It is what it was—the past. Let’s move forward.

I am an energetic mediator and an on-the-ball guide to keep your discussions on track with the goal being an open conversation of thoughts and emotions in a safe room.

Expertise & Experience

In my counselling practice the majority of clients I work with are couples. I have the specific expertise and proven results that are required to tackle the many stress points that can occur in an intimate relationship.