Marriage Counselling
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SHIFTING TOWARDS EMPOWERMENT
Therapy for Marriage
A connected and harmonious marriage can shift our family dynamics, help us sleep better, function more effectively, and increase our self-worth. Our job is to give you the tools and techniques to achieve a balanced and fulfilling marriage so you can direct your focus towards your life goals as opposed to your marital challenges. The success of therapy is directly correlated with the fit of your therapist for each partner’s unique needs, so choosing the therapist that’s the best for you is essential.
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What Is Modern-Day Marriage Counselling Anyways?
Marriage Therapy encompasses couples counselling, conflict resolution, communication strategy, romantic support, and sex therapy within a marriage to facilitate behavioural change and emotional understanding of ourselves and our partners.
Marriage counsellor and marriage therapist are used interchangeably and have the same regulatory license as individual therapists (Registered Clinical Counsellors in BC or Certified Canadian Counsellor across Canada). Having these licenses dictate that the therapist has a Master’s Degree and above and is held accountable to a professional organization ethically and legally. A marriage therapist has this/these license(s) and has additional training in therapies specific to relationships like Gottman Therapy or Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT).
Marriage therapy is not the stereotypical couples counselling where the therapist shames you for your mistakes, prescribes unsolicited sex exercises, chooses sides, or pretends like they know your marriage better than you do, and it’s not only for marriages that are doomed to begin with. Much like individual therapy, marriage therapy is about quality of life. Often marriages can make it through a crisis without the support of a counsellor, however having a counsellor speeds up the healing process, increases efficiency of communication and helps partners decide what to prioritize from a neutral standpoint.
Marriage counsellors can have specializations underneath the umbrella of marriage therapy. For example, a marriage therapist could be well-versed in navigating familial conflict, sex, trauma, or parenting. Often these concerns overlap, and a marriage therapist typically has experience in multiple commonly related areas.
If this is resonating, what this means for you:
That’s what we are here for. No judgment, scientifically founded therapy with no waitlists and authentically real, non-burnt-out therapists that specialize in navigating what pieces in your marriage are holding you back from a higher quality of life so you can focus on life outside of your marriage, and have a marriage that continues to promote happiness, growth, and confidence.