Couples Therapy
Are You Feeling Disconnected From Your Significant Other?
Is it difficult for you and your partner to communicate effectively?
Does your relationship feel stagnant?
Lately, does it seem like the two of you are moving in different directions?
Maybe you have started to believe that you and your partner are living separate lives. The sense of connection and engagement you once shared has now been replaced by tension, withdrawal, and silence. This has likely impacted your ability to deepen intimacy, leading to a decrease in sex and attraction.
Relationship challenges also have a way of compromising individual mental health and well-being. If you are out of sync in your relationship, you are much more likely to develop painful feelings of loneliness, anxiety, and distress. Questioning whether your connection can sustain itself, you may have begun to look for an exit strategy out of the relationship.
Fortunately, couples therapy allows you to explore all of your options for the relationship in a meaningful way. Working together with an experienced couples therapist, you can reignite your connection as you figure out what your shared goals are—and how to reach them.
Despite Being In Long-Term Partnerships, Many Of Us Feel Isolated And Lonely
Given our stressed-out, distracted culture, it’s normal for couples to struggle to maintain their connection. Our relationships are complex, requiring ongoing care and attention in order to be successful. Many couples believe that if they have a strong connection at the start of their relationship, they will naturally know how to stay happy and satisfied. But the truth is that we are constantly being shaped and challenged as individuals, often making it difficult for our relationships to adapt to change.
All of us come into our partnerships with certain expectations about what an ideal connection looks like to us, often forcing us to reconcile differences about monogamy, family, finances, and overall lifestyle. These negotiations can become particularly complicated as new stressors enter the picture, whether they involve parenting, career changes, or caring for other family members. Yet, instead of approaching these challenges as a team, we are more likely to have an individualistic mindset that perpetuates an us vs. them mentality.
Counselling provides couples with an opportunity to find common ground, paving a sturdy foundation upon which they can grow and maintain their connection. Collaborating with our clinicians at Project Heal, you and your partner can experience newfound awareness of yourselves and each other as you work towards healing your relationship.
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At Project Heal, We Are Invested In Helping Couples Re-Establish Their Connection In Therapy
No matter what our struggles may be, therapy is an invitation to return to our most authentic selves. For couples, in particular, therapy is a meaningful way to reconcile differences in service of a more authentic, harmonious connection with each other.
Our counsellors and coaches are here to foster a safe, neutral space where you can come together as a couple to establish long-term solutions for improving communication, healing wounds, and strengthening your bond. We work with couples of all backgrounds in counselling, including those who identify as LGBTQ+.
Our Approach
The clinicians at Project Heal draw from a wide range of therapy approaches, individualizing the process for each couple.
Early in the process, we will work on tracing presenting challenges back to the source, identifying the early experiences, root causes, and beliefs perpetuating disconnection and distress. Then, we will engage new skills for communication and emotion regulation to escape the cycle of conflict. With clarity and a new understanding of one another, you will be able to better grasp your role in the relationship and cultivate shared goals that will ultimately deepen intimacy.
We take a holistic approach in therapy for couples, utilizing relational and systemic methods that are designed to heal the mind, body, and spirit. Alongside body-based techniques—including mindfulness and breathwork to calm the nervous system—some of the couples-specific frameworks we draw from are:
- Gottman Method
- Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Imago Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
Before writing off your relationship entirely, it’s important to see if couples therapy can help you return to the state of closeness and harmony that once characterized your connection. All couples experience roadblocks from time to time, but counselling offers concrete tools for navigating challenges together. With concentrated effort and dedication to the process, hope and healing are possible in your relationship.
Common Questions About Couples Counselling…
There tends to be a high success rate among couples who participate in therapy. In fact, Psychology Today reports that over half of struggling couples considering separation or divorce find reconciliation through marriage counselling. [1]
Our therapists and coaches understand that many factors may have adversely impacted your ability to connect as a couple, but we are highly trained in systemic, relational approaches that can meaningfully guide you in escaping old patterns as you learn to create new ones.
Many couples, even if they’re unhappy, fear change in the relationship. After all, fear of change is a normal aspect of being human. However, therapy is meant to heal your relationship. Even if it’s decided at the end of the process that you and your partner want to separate, couples therapy gives you a chance to learn skills that will make the separation more manageable for each of you so that you can bring new, healthier communication and emotional skills to future relationships.
We understand that there is still a stigma surrounding mental health counselling, and that many people live with the misconception that going to couples therapy means your relationship is doomed. Your time in therapy is completely confidential and belongs to you—you do not have to share what happens in your sessions with anyone else.
That said, it’s important to reiterate that seeking couples counselling is actually a sign of great strength. It shows that you are taking your relationship seriously and doing everything you can to make it work. Asking for help is not an easy thing to do, but our empathetic, nonjudgmental counsellors and coaches will be with you every step of the way, fostering a therapeutic alliance that feels both safe and comfortable.
Return To Your Most Authentic Self To Create The Relationship You Desire
If you are struggling with communication setbacks, conflictual patterns, or irreconcilable differences in your relationship, couples therapy through Project Heal can offer you and your partner meaningful solutions for reconnecting to yourselves and one another. For more information about how our couples therapists and coaches can help, contact us.
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