Couples Counselling

Looking For A Relationship Therapist In Melbourne?

Recognising that your relationship needs help is a tough step, but it’s necessary for you and your partner to receive therapy that can get your marriage back on track. People become distant from each other for a variety of reasons. It may be that time has led to complacency or growing apart gradually. Or it may be that there’s been a large, abrupt change in your family dynamic. Marriage guidance counselling can help you and your partner reconnect emotionally, and help provide you both with a new way of communicating with each other.

Relationship counselling is about having a neutral environment with an impartial therapist available to help you address and acknowledge areas of conflict, as well as work through the problems that have led to a rift in the relationship. It’s not about taking sides or assigning blame. It’s about refinding the mutual respect and love that brought you together in the beginning.

Relationship Counselling Is Available At The Grove Counselling

Talking through your marital problems during face-to-face or online marriage therapy has many benefits. There has been a lot of additional stress placed on relationships during the Covid-19 response and speaking openly with a trained professional will help you process the problems you have been experiencing. Face-to-face couples counselling enables your therapist to understand how you interact with each other, beyond words, and they can pick up on body language that may give them a deeper insight into your relationship.

In person couples counselling will help you and your partner focus on the problems, and help you reach solutions that are manageable for both partners. At The Grove Counselling we begin by getting a background look at the relationship and exploring how your current situation affects your household, including your children. We help you see patterns of negative behaviour so that we can work on creating a new foundation of communication, respect, and trust.

Your marriage therapy session in Melbourne will be 90 minutes long, to give you, your partner, and your therapist the opportunity to understand what has been happening in your relationship and what you can expect during your sessions. Thereafter, appointments will be 60 minutes long at regular intervals and you both need to be present during these sessions.

How In-Person Couples Counselling Can Help You

When life is hectic, it can be easy to unintentionally ignore a partner or take them for granted. Allowing issues to bubble under the surface without directly acknowledging them can cause even greater problems in the future. Many couples looking for marriage guidance in Melbourne find they are having trouble communicating openly and honestly with their partner. Attending marriage therapy in Melbourne doesn’t have to be a soap opera-worthy problem either. It might be a difference in parenting styles that’s causing the rift. It might be a wider family issue or a difference in values.

In-person couples counselling gives you and your partner the chance to speak freely, in a neutral and non-judgemental space. Your relationship therapist in Melbourne can help you both open lines of communication and learn the necessary skills to keep talking. Bottling up frustrations can lead to a much deeper sadness that’s harder to overcome.

Our clients have found that talking with their partner in a neutral, supportive space allows them the chance to express their thoughts and feelings more openly. It helps expose the root cause of arguments and allows each person an opportunity to listen to their partner’s perspective. While we may feel we are listening at home, there can be many distractions resulting in an unsatisfying conversation.

Seeking guidance in your marriage doesn’t mean your therapist will hand you the answers to your troubles. The issues in the relationship will take work from you and your partner, to change patterns of behaviour and responses. If you want to save your relationship, whatever the cause of the rift, marriage therapy in Melbourne with The Grove Counselling will help you both develop the necessary tools to have a relationship based on mutual respect.

Is Couples Therapy Necessary?

Some people may feel that relationship therapy is for other people. It can be difficult to accept it as a course of action, especially if it’s someone else’s idea. Some people think time will solve their relationship problems, or if they hide in their work then they’ll simply go away. Unfortunately, relationship problems are rarely solved in these ways. Once a rift begins to set in, confronting the issue and discussing it with your partner gets it into the open. Speaking about the problem, and agreeing on a solution is the best way forward.

Marriage counselling in Melbourne helps dig into the cause of your relationship problems and helps create a framework for overcoming the issues. It also keeps you both accountable for the work you put in to get the relationship back on track.

Book For A Free Relationship Counselling Session In South East Melbourne Today

During your marriage therapy sessions, you and your partner will be discussing details that may be intimate and emotionally charged. So it is of great importance that you feel comfortable with your therapist. To ensure you find the right match, here at The Grove Counselling, you can book your first session for free. It’s a shorter, introductory session that’ll help you decide if the therapist is someone you can speak with openly.

We want to help you and your partner build the tools that will lead to a more fulfilling and reciprocation relationship.

To speak with someone about addressing your relationship issues, book your free session by calling us directly or by using our online booking system, we're available for couples counselling in St Kilda, couples therapy in Brighton or for those looking for relationship counselling in Prahran.