Relationship Counselling
What is relationship counselling?
When someone you love lets you down, it can feel like the ground disappears beneath you. You might be asking yourself how you got here and if you can ever trust them again. Or am I crazy for wanting to make it work.
When trust is broken, through a betrayal, an affair, a lie, or a hidden part of your partner’s world, it’s not just about what happened. It’s about what it meant. What it took from you and shook loose inside of you and how it left you questioning everything, your worth, your safety, your reality.
When you have been in this space, you feel like you’re constantly swinging between anger, numbness, sadness, and hope. You might not recognise yourself anymore as you replay everything, over and over, wondering what you missed. You might be trying to forgive too quickly, just to keep the relationship alive, while holding your pain in silence.
And your partner?
They might feel deep shame, confusion, or guilt. They might be trying to fix things, or shutting down completely because they don’t know how to make it right again. They are lost and might be placing blame on you as a way to make sense of what has happened.
Counselling gives you a place to slow this all down. Not to rush to healing. Not to push forgiveness. But to make sense of what’s happened and to sit in the honesty of it.
And, if both of you are willing, to begin the process of repairing what was broken, healing can come.
We work with couples to help:
- Rebuild emotional safety
- Understand how past experiences and coping patterns shaped each of you
- Develop real tools to work through the waves of anger, grief, shame, and fear
- Reconnect with your own needs and boundaries
- And decidetogether or separately, what kind of relationship feels right moving forward
There is no right or perfect timeline for healing betrayal. But you don’t have to walk through it alone. And you don’t have to keep pretending everything’s ok. There is space here for the pain, the questions and for the part that still hopes something beautiful might come from this.
Our approach to relationship counselling
Relationships can bring up big feelings and things we didn’t even know we were carrying. When we feel ignored, judged, or pushed away by someone we love, it can cut deep. We might shut down, get defensive, or lash out and it ends up feeling like we’re both just trying to be heard, but no one’s really listening.
That’s why we work in a way that’s slow, safe, and grounded. Where honesty is met with care, not shame. We move at the pace that feels right for you both, and we know it takes time to feel safe enough to open up.
We use a mix of ways that supports you to understand the stories that have surfaced from you past and is showing up in your relationships. We provide you with strategies that supports the work we do together to support you to heal.
Healing doesn’t happen in isolation, it happens in safe, steady connection. And it would be our honour to support your in this.
