Couples Therapy. Working together to re-connect & resolve relationship problems
“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
Erich Fromm
Need help with your relationship problems? Couples Therapy may be the solution you are looking for.
As a relationship therapist, my goal is to help you navigate the most challenging aspects of your relationship. I specialise in helping couples to re-connect, build a stronger relationships, and heal from the hurt of past conflicts. Whether you are struggling with communication, infidelity, or other problematic relationship patterns, I am here to help.
Couples Counseling provides you and your partner with a safe and non-judgemental space where you can come together to explore your feelings and learn new ways of interacting and communicating. My therapeutic approach is individualised and tailored to the needs of each couple, ensuring that they can move forward, as a couple, as friends, or as co-parents, with confidence.
Jerodine Newman, Psychologist, Koira Psychology - Gold Coast
Working Together
FAQs about Couples Therapy
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Couples Therapy works most effectively when the therapist and both partners can develop a therapeutic connection to communicate openly and honestly.
It is my responsibility as your relationship psychologist to encourage you and your partner to share your opinions about any concerns you may have with your relationship, especially with issues both of you may find difficult and sensitive to bring up without support. I will seek permission to talk with each partner about their concerns in relation to their own internal problems. It is through the process of developing a deeper understanding of youself and of your partner that new ways of connecting to self, others, the past and the present are created together.
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One of the main goals of Couples Therapy is to increase self-awareness and understanding of each partner. Depending on the issues with a couples' relationship and the self and joint discovery process, it is possible for partners to move forward together as a couple with renewed commitment to ecah other; while it is also equally possible for partners to move forward as friends with renewed respect and acceptance. Couples who are parents to dependent children who wish to renew their relationship as friends will be encouraged to attend Family Therapy sessions to build a stronger family system going forward
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Couples Therapy can be conducted remotely via a Telehealth access platform. Currently, COVIU provides our Telehealth services. You will receive a web link by email/sms before your session time.
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Yes, it is possible to have a therapy session in this format. However, when couples attend sessions separately from each other, their sense of partnership is reduced. Mostly, couples benefitted more from attending sessions together from one location as this gives them the opportunity to have a dialogue in real time (without potential technical delays and interruptions), discuss issues with courage and respect, and support each other as a team.
“Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.”
Esther Perel
