Mediation and counselling services for families navigating change

When our closest relationship feels hard, the rest of our life suffers.

You know the feeling. The smile you have to fake at work or with the kids and the emptiness you feel at home. The brain power that is used on guessing how to finally fix it. The energy spent reading books, listening to podcasts, and talking to friends about finding a solution that is starting to feel hopeless. It is for you that I have created a mediation and counselling practice with the single focus of improving relationships, whatever phase or stage they may be in.

How Couples Counselling Works:

Couples counselling centres around understanding how the two of you relate to (and sometimes hurt) each other and what a lasting repair would look like. This protocol is informed by Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Attachment Theory and the Gottman Method. What that means in non-therapy speak is this: we slow fights down, understand the pattern and how the past plays into your attachment style with each other, while also giving you tangible skills to make things easier tonight.

How Discernment Counselling Works:

You might be wondering if there is enough good to stay together, be exhausted or disillusioned from couples counselling or desperate to repair what used to be a healthy and loving relationship. Discernment Counselling differs from traditional couples counselling because the only thing we are focussing on is if you should stay or go. Sessions are 90-minutes on Zoom and involve limited time together but more time 1:1 with the therapist to talk candidly about your concerns or hopes about the relationship. Discernment Counselling is only six sessions or less, and will culminate in one of three routes: status quo, parting well or signing on for six-months of couples counselling with tangible goals and benchmarks. This is for people on the brink of divorce, already checked out or wanting to fight one last fight to see if the relationship can and should be saved.

How Family Mediation Works:

Family mediation is designed to help families navigate the hardest transitions of separation with civility and durable agreements covering property, support and parenting plans that reflect your real life and circumstances. In mediation, you meet via Zoom (or use what is called “shuttle” where the mediator acts as the intermediary between two people) and create solutions that fit your family, not what a judge decides for you. This process keeps the relationship amicable, saves thousands of dollars and results in an agreement that you designed first-hand.

You deserve to have a good relationship. You deserve to live your life that feels authentic and without regret.