Can Couples Counselling or Marriage Therapy Work for You?
How Couples Therapy Helps
Dealing with relationship or marriage concerns can feel overwhelming — but you don’t have to navigate it alone.
Couples counselling provides insight, clarity, communication tools, and practical support to help you reconnect, repair, and build the relationship you’ve always wanted.
At Susan Blackburn Psychology, our approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in evidence-based methods.
We help you explore new ways of thinking, communicating, and behaving, while strengthening kindness, respect, appreciation, and the emotional bond between you and your partner.
Our approach focuses on what is working and what your strengths are as a couple, so that this can be used as a springboard for rebuilding trust, improving intimacy, and creating a closer connection.
Your sessions take place in a confidential, empathetic, and non-judgmental environment where you can express yourselves openly, feel heard, and work together toward the changes you want to create in your relationship.
Many couples begin to feel relief simply from having a safe, structured space to slow down, understand each other, and communicate more effectively.
We integrate Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), relationship counselling, parenting counselling, and structured communication and trust-building strategies.
Your goals — and the issues you’re facing — guide the process.
Areas of Focus & Expertise
We support couples with a wide range of relationship concerns, including:
- Creating a closer emotional connection
- Rebuilding trust after long-standing hurt or betrayal
- Increasing emotional and physical intimacy
- Improving communication patterns
- Breaking recurring arguments and negative cycles
- Conflict resolution and repair
- Healing from infidelity
- Breaking codependent, anxious or avoidant patterns
- Navigating differences in needs, expectations, or values
- Managing finances and shared responsibilities
- Boundary setting and emotional regulation skills
- Parenting counselling and co-parenting support
- “Baby-proofing” your marriage or partnership
- Adjusting to new parenthood
- Pre-engagement and pre-marital counselling
- Extended and blended family issues
- Navigating distance, disconnection, loneliness, or resentment
- Insecure attachment, fear of abandonment, or fear of closeness
- Communication that escalates quickly or shuts down entirely
- Repairing after emotional withdrawal or stonewalling
- Bringing back romance and affection
- Coping with stress, burnout, or life transitions impacting the relationship
Every couple’s story is unique — and your therapy experience will be tailored to what matters most to you both. Depending on your situation, your therapy may involve shifting long-standing patterns of communication and/or behaviour, implementing healthier coping strategies and skills, and making spending quality time together one of your highest priorities.
Many couples notice significant changes by applying small, consistent adjustments between sessions that really add up over time, leaving you feeling relieved, encouraged and inspired.
Whether you’re hoping to rebuild, reconnect, strengthen your partnership, or prevent issues from taking place or becoming more of a challenge, couples therapy can be a powerful step toward a calmer, healthier, more fulfilling relationship.
A Supportive, Warm Space for Change
All sessions take place in a secure, confidential, and supportive environment where you can express yourselves openly and work together toward the future you want.
Whether you’re hoping to repair the relationship, strengthen it, or understand it more deeply, we’ll guide you with compassion, clarity, and proven strategies.
Ready to Begin?
You don’t have to navigate these challenges alone. We’d be honoured to support you.
Fees for couples therapy with our Clinical Therapists are $285 per session, and fees with Susan are $350 per session. Sessions are 50-minutes long and are eligible for psychological services insurance reimbursement under most extended benefits plans.
Click here to book directly or get matched with one of our experienced couples therapist who best fits your stage of life, relationship concerns and preferences; and have a complimentary 20-minute Discovery Call with them to make sure it’s a great fit before starting.
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