Relationship & Couples Counselling:

What People Come to Relationship Counselling For:

Couples and families seek relationship counselling for many different reasons, often during times of stress, transition, or uncertainty. It’s very common for partners to arrive with different levels of hope, motivation, or clarity about the future: some want to rebuild, some are unsure, and others want support to separate.

I have experience working with relationships and couples who want to:

  • improve communication and break recurring patterns of conflict

  • rebuild closeness, trust, and emotional connection

  • navigate parenting stress, blended family challenges, or changing family roles

  • explore whether to stay together, separate, or change the form of the relationship

  • access co-parenting support and post-separation counselling

  • navigate challenges related to intimacy or sexual connection

  • support one another through mental health or other life challenges

  • manage the impacts of addiction, substance use, or long-standing coping patterns

  • decide whether or not to have children, including navigating IVF, fertility treatment, or donor conception

  • strengthen relationships after trauma, family violence, or long-standing tension

  • find practical ways to live well together and feel respected and supported as a unit

Relationship counselling is not only for couples who are “on the brink.” Many people come because they care about the relationship and want support to either deepen it, steady it, or make important decisions together. All relationship structures are welcome, including monogamous, polyamorous, queer, co-parenting, and non-romantic partnerships.

Get in touch for a free 15 minute phone consult by booking online.

What to Expect:

  • Sessions take place either in person or online. The space is in Northcote, with close access to Northcote train station.

  • Relationship counselling sessions: Either contact me via email or booking online. Once the appointment is booked, I will email a brief intake to each person in the relationship to be completed individually.

  • The initial session is with all people in the relationship, followed by individual sessions with each person.

  • Individual sessions can be particularly useful when we find ourselves acting outside our values, providing space to explore what may be getting in the way of acting in line with our intentions.

  • Sessions will then be a mix of joint or individual depending on the situation.