Marriage / Couples Counselling

Are you struggling with any of the following in your relationship?

• Becoming emotionally disconnected.
• The passion is going out.
• Problems with feelings of trust, safety, confidence, and reliability.
• Communication problems, disagreements, and fighting.
• Anger. Verbal and emotional abuse.
• Experiencing a “spillover” of other stresses into the relationship.
• Problems with sex life.
• Trouble dealing with an important event (e.g., loss of a job, death of loved one, an illness).
• A major issue about your children.
• Difficulties with in-laws or a relative.
• An affair or another very hard event has occurred.
• Issues of power and influence.
• Feeling stuck.

Benefits of marriage counselling and therapy include:

• Decrease and resolve your conflicts.
• Heal your emotional wounds.
• Develop greater insight and understanding about your beliefs, expectations, and rules, (often outside of conscious awareness) which can create unfortunate problems.
• Learn the necessary skills and education pieces for effective communication, and satisfying emotional, physical and sexual intimacy.
• Increase feelings of love, and other positive emotions.
• Learn to identify and stop escalating behaviours that lead to abuse.
• Rebuild trust and intimacy in your relationship after an affair.

Read more about relationship issues:

Maintaining Healthy Boundaries in Relationships

No Scerets: Telling the Truth in Our Relationships

Emotional Unavailability: When Your Partner Can't Connect

Ian Bond, MA, BA, RCC, Professional Counselling & Psychotherapy services in Vancouver. Areas of practice include: Marriage counselling, couples counselling, relationship problems, affairs, anger management, depression, professional burnout, parenting issues, anxiety, panic attacks, trauma, PTSD – post traumatic stress disorder, acute stress, childhood traumas, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety, addictions, alcohol & drugs, smoking cessation, individual growth and development, stress management, and others.

Serving clients in the Lower Mainland including: Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, Delta, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, White Rock, Tsawwassan, Langley, and New Westminster.