Marriage Counselling
"A great marriage isn't built on the idea of a perfect couple, it is created when two imperfect people learn to understand, appreciate, and grow together in their differences." - Jo
Marriage Counselling
"A great marriage isn't built on the idea of a perfect couple, it is created when two imperfect people learn to understand, appreciate, and grow together in their differences." - Jo
All married couples experience good times and bad together. Whether you are in a long-standing marriage, are newly committed, feel really satisfied or quite disheartened it may be difficult to understand how your marriage has changed and developed over time.
A successful marriage is built on the ability to reach out and respond to each other in moments of vulnerability, with partners becoming each other's safe haven and secure base through the challenges and transitions of life.
For couples to genuinely find fulfilment, we must strengthen the foundation of their relationship by helping them reconnect emotionally and rebuild their bond.
"The strongest bonds are often those that can withstand the softest moments of vulnerability."
Marriage Counselling can help you
- Resolve recurring conflicts, repeated arguments and misunderstandings
- Bridge differences and learn to find common ground
- Reconnect emotionally if you feel distant, disengaged, or disconnected
- Create greater harmony and deepen the trust, respect, and affection between you and your partner
- Rediscover intimacy and closeness, both emotionally and physically
- Enhance a healthy relationship and build a deeper connection
- Strengthen your bond and cultivate a more loving, supportive partnership.
- Restore the spark of love and affection
What is Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT)?
Marriage 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.
Jo's practice is grounded in person centred, humanistic attachment orientated Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT), Emotion Focused Therapy, Compassion Focused Psychotherapy (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 counsellor and 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.
Marriage 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.
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