Couples Counselling in B.C.
Relationship Therapy for Women and Queer Folks and their partners—offered Online in a safe, affirming space.
Whether you are dating and looking to build a healthy relationship, struggling in a relationship or navigating your way out of one, I can help!
Relationships can be a powerful source of connection, joy, and growth — and they can also bring challenges, pain and uncertainty.
Whether you're navigating communication struggles, intimacy concerns, boundaries or the impact of trauma in your current partnerships, I offer a supportive space to work through it all.
I work with couples and relationship structures of all kinds — monogamous, queer, non-monogamous, romantic, asexual and beyond — to explore the patterns and emotional dynamics shaping your connection.
Together, we may work on building secure attachment, improving communication, healing relational wounds or rebuilding trust in each other.
Couples Counselling and Relationship Therapy is always grounded in the unique structure of your relationship and guided by your goals and, it begins exactly where you are at this moment. You are welcome here.
Building Strong Foundations
Whether you're just starting out, navigating a new dynamic or preparing for a long-term commitment, couples counselling and relationship therapy can help you strengthen your connection early on.
Support for:
Dating and New Relationship Conversations
Premarital Conversations
Relationship Check-ups
Discovering Attachment Styles
Understanding Relational Patterns
Exploring Relationship Preferences
Communication, Conflict and Boundaries
Conflict is a normal part of relationships — how you manage it makes all the difference. Together, we’ll work on improving communication and building skills for connection and repair after conflict. We’ll also discuss the boundaries around your relationship to minimize conflict, before it arises.
Support for:
Strengthening Communication
Managing Conflict and Emotional reactivity in healthy ways
Clarifying Relationship Boundaries around social media, ex-partners, friends, colleagues and pornography
Healing After Betrayal: Counselling for Affairs
Many couples struggle with breaches of trust, affairs, cyber-infidelity or betrayals and these experiences can be incredibly difficult and painful.
Counselling offers a safe space to explore, reconnect and rebuild your relationship, with an experienced therapist, as your guide.
Together we can process your experiences and explore the next steps, whether that is understanding what happened, rebuilding your relationship stronger than it was before or exploring your options for breaking up or separating.
Queer Relationship Support
Queer and LGBTQIA2S+ relationships are as diverse and complex as the people within them. I offer a supportive and affirming space to explore communication, identity, trust and the unique relational, cultural and systemic dynamics that shape your partnerships — whether you're navigating change, healing betrayals or deepening your connections. Our work is always grounded in the lived experience and structure of your relationship. I offer a safe space for all of you.
Support for:
Communication and Exploring Preferences
LGBTQIA2S+ and Queer Relationship Concerns
Coming out or Letting others in
Exploring Gender and Sexual Orientation(s)
Affairs, Betrayals and Repairs
Consensual Non-Monogamy and Opening Up
Break-ups, Uncoupling, Separations and Divorces
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Professional Couples Counselling:
Training & Conference Highlights
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Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy Externship Vancouver Couple and Family Institute
International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy
Vancouver, B.C.
July 6-9, 2015
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Sex and the Bonds of Attachment: An EFT Approach George Faller LMFT
Online
April 16, 2025
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy with Dr. Sue Johnson and Gottman Couples Therapy with Dr. John and Dr. Julie Gottman
University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
July 12-13, 2013
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The Science and Art of Couple Therapy: Creating Secure Bonds with Dr. Susan Johnson
Justice Institute of British Columbia, New Westminster, B.C. Canada
Nov 7-8, 2013
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The Science Behind Relationships: Understanding Attachment, Maintenance, Infidelity and the Dissolution
Sexual Health Alliance
Online Conference
September 16 and 17, 2023
