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Couples Counselling in Downtown Vancouver & BC
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How We Approach Couples Counselling
In couples counselling at Head & Heart Counselling in Vancouver you will enter a process of discovery about yourself and your partner. Beginning with understanding your own and your partner’s attachment styles, together with your therapist, you will discover how each of your styles interact with one another’s to create a dynamic pattern that tends to go on repeat. These repeating patterns are why you get stuck in the same arguments, same ways of arguing or perhaps patterns of avoiding conflict or intimacy. As you become aware of your own style of attempting to create security you will discover what you can do to change stuck patterns and actually create the relationship you want. With increasing awareness of what you feel and what you really want, you will learn how to communicate both effectively and lovingly. By learning about your and partner’s habitual reactions, together the two of you can find new ways to connect, share, trust and be intimate.
An enduring, secure relationship is one of the most rewarding and protective structures in our lives. When we are securely attached to our partner, our nervous system settles and we can really proceed toward our goals. But at Head and Heart, we don’t stop there. We want to you experience the higher reaches of relationship goals, whatever they are for you…Profound love, a rich adventure, creative satisfaction, even deep spiritual connection.
We can learn to ask ourselves, what does this relationship require from me? And learn the self awareness it takes to interrupt a self-reinforcing pattern and create something new. Not every relationship ends up continuing. At Head and Heart we don’t weigh in on whether or not you should keep your relationship, but we do align in a very attuned way to your goals, and help you discover what you truly want. In our view, when love wins, we all expand and drop deeper in what we truly want and who we truly are.
Drawing on the most rigorously researched modes for couples counselling, at Head and Heart we work on creating a secure attachment between you and your partner so you can feel supported and relaxed together. From there, the possibilities emerge for true intimacy, deeper love, more aligned goals, deeper emotional, spiritual and creative connection.
Head and Heart Counselling offers guidance for couples to navigate intimacy, communication, sexuality, interdependence and other relationship issues in a supportive, confidential environment.
How It Works
Step 1: Initial Consultation
In your first session, we’ll take time to understand some of your history, current challenges, and your desires. This is a collaborative process — together, we’ll clarify your goals and develop a therapy plan that’s tailored to your unique needs.
Step 2: Tailored Therapy Plan
At Head & Heart counselling our approach is to understand your unique challenges, your personality and your goals. Whether it’s trust, communication, more intimacy, greater interdependence or more, we will guide your through a learning process that both heals and teaches so you can leave with the skills you need.
Step 3: Ongoing Support
Therapy is an ongoing journey. Head & Heart counselling provides continued support through regular sessions.
