What It Involves
Couples therapy provides a structured and supportive environment where partners can work together to better understand their relationship, improve communication and address areas of conflict or concern.
Sessions focus on helping couples identify unhelpful patterns, communicate more openly and constructively, and develop practical strategies for managing disagreements and strengthening their connection.
Therapy may explore issues such as communication breakdowns, trust, intimacy, parenting, major life changes, recurring conflict or relationship stress, with the psychologist providing a balanced and respectful space for both partners to be heard.
The aim is to help couples develop greater understanding of one another, strengthen their relationship skills and work collaboratively towards healthier and more positive ways of moving forward.
Who It's For
Couples therapy is suitable for couples at any stage of their relationship who want to strengthen their connection, improve communication or work through ongoing challenges together.
It can support couples experiencing frequent conflict, communication difficulties, trust concerns, emotional distance, intimacy issues, parenting pressures or significant life changes, as well as couples who simply want to build a stronger and healthier relationship.
Therapy can also provide a valuable space for couples wanting to better understand each other’s needs, develop more constructive ways of resolving disagreements, and create a stronger foundation for their future together.
What to Expect
Couples therapy will typically involve joint sessions, providing both partners with an opportunity to discuss concerns, explore relationship patterns and work towards shared goals in a supportive and balanced environment.
Your psychologist will initially seek to understand the relationship, the challenges you are experiencing and what each partner hopes to achieve through therapy. From there, sessions may focus on improving communication, identifying recurring patterns of conflict and developing practical strategies to strengthen the relationship.
Depending on your individual circumstances, separate sessions with each partner may occasionally be recommended to gain additional insight or address particular concerns.
Throughout the process, your psychologist will work collaboratively with both partners, adapting the approach as needed and providing a respectful environment where each person has the opportunity to be heard.
Relationship Counselling
Relationship problems are a common cause of emotional disorders such as anxiety, depression, unresolved grief, substance abuse, anger management and weight control. This is not surprising given that throughout childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older age, our sense of self and how we behave is continually influenced by the way others treat us and how we feel about it.
Relationship problems can occur with communication, resolution of arguments or differences of opinion and sexual issues. Having children may change the nature of a relationship and adjustments may need to be made on both sides. Treatment may involve dealing with issues for one or both partners, building communication and anger resolution.
Psychologists can help you grieve lost relationships, improve or repair relationships, help you understand difficulties that seem unsolvable, teach you ways to deal with interpersonal conflict so that you can get your own needs met, maintain healthy relationships and feel good about yourself.
Relationship Counselling Can Help All Types of Relationships
Relationship distress can occur within families, couples, peers of all ages, in workplaces and other social groups. We have therapists at Psychological Health Care who specialise in marital therapy, family therapy, parenting and child behaviour management, step family issues, adolescent behaviour, workplace stress, dispute resolution, separation issues, emotional intimacy and sexual problems.
Get in touch to talk through your situation and we can match you with a clinical psychologist who can best help you tackle and overcome your particular issues.
Book an Appointment
We treat patients from all over Perth at our Clinical Psychology clinic in Dianella. To make an appointment simply give us a call or fill out the contact form on our contact page with your details and we’ll call you to confirm. You may want to ask us a question, request an appointment or find out more about the Clinical Psychologists you can see at either of our clinics. Choose the right option for you below: