Couples Counselling
The core need for love and acceptance cuts across gender. Sharing your life in a meaningful way in a stable, loving relationship where both partners feel secure enough to be their true selves, is essential.
Couples Counselling
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he core need for love and acceptance cuts across gender. Sharing your life in a meaningful way in a stable, loving relationship where both partners feel secure enough to be their true selves, is essential.
Some couples are able to navigate the challenges of life, misunderstandings or hurts and seemingly ‘bounce back’ resolving things relatively easily. Other couples get stuck; stressors and misunderstandings evolve into a pattern of negative interactions and the couple are unable to resolve differences. This fundamentally affects how close, secure and respected you may feel in your couple relationship.
“To really help couples find happiness, we must shore up the foundation of their relationship; that is, help them relay and rebuild their emotional connection” – Dr Sue Johnson
Couples Counselling can help you
- De-escalate conflict and foster a mutual understanding of the challenging patterns and emotional distance that have developed in your relationship.
- Transform how you relate to yourself and your partner
- Cultivate healthier interactions where you can both openly express your frustrations, fears, needs, and desires, while being attuned to each other's emotional responses.
- Manage relationship stressors more effectively, reduce feelings of loneliness, isolation and distress and develop a greater sense of peace
- Rebuild trust and connection after infidelity or an affair.
- Rekindle intimacy and sexuality within the relationship.
- Learn how to create and nurture a secure emotional bond with your partner
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT)?
Couples Counselling at landscape of life is informed by Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT), a powerful approach that integrates the science of attachment, adult relationships and is designed to help partners understand and transform their emotional responses within their relationship.
By identifying negative patterns of interaction and the underlying emotional needs driving them, EFT helps couples develop a deeper emotional connection and create a secure bond.
EFT focuses on fostering open communication, empathy, and emotional responsiveness, allowing both partners to express their feelings, needs, and vulnerabilities in a safe, non-judgmental space.
Through this process, couples can rebuild trust, resolve conflicts more effectively, and strengthen their emotional intimacy, ultimately creating a healthier, more resilient relationship.
Research has shown that EFT is highly effective for improving relationship satisfaction, reducing distress and rebuilding emotional closeness in couple relationship.
Couples Therapist · Jo Gniel (she/her)
Jo (she/her) is an ICEEFT, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervises therapists learning EFT. She was a founding committee member of the Melbourne Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy (MCEFT) and has contributed to EFT training and research in Australia. She has been an Emotion Focused Therapist for more than 15 years.
Jo's practice is grounded in person centred, humanistic attachment orientated Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT), Emotion Focused Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), the principals and practices of Mindful-Self Compassion (MSC) and other frameworks tailored to resource you to respond to specific relationship dynamics.
Prior to being a psychotherapist Jo could be found walking the boards of a global giant as an innovation and change lead. Since leaving the theatre of corporate life, Jo has been dedicated to building human connection; creating a safer, more compassionate and inclusive world.
Couples Counselling in Melbourne or Online
IN PERSON (Glen Iris, Melbourne)
IN PERSON Relationship Counselling appointments are held in Glen Iris, Melbourne. If you are near me in the adjacent suburbs of Camberwell, Malvern, Malvern East, Chadstone, Carnegie, Canterbury, Hawthorn, Hawthorn East, Surrey Hills or other Inner Eastern suburbs of Melbourne or happy to travel from further afield we are located near the High Street exit of the Monash.
Online
ONLINE Relationship Counselling appointments are held via Zoom if you are based in regional, rural or remote parts of Victoria, Australia, US (after hours) Asia, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Middle East, UK, Europe.
Resource library
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