The Couples Toolbox®
★★★★★ Testimonial Marriage Counselling: I was convinced that we were separating and it was too late. I was of the mindset to leave, but one hour turned it around for us. This session was very different. Ghita nailed our problem and made us negotiate. After many years of arguing over the same thing, she showed us how to do deals. We negotiated our personal time and even had a contingency plan for when things went wrong. We both agree this session was nothing like what we expected. Thank you Ghita. - J & A Tovey. (Hope Island)
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The Couples Toolbox® (The Andersen Method) is a method that takes all the best couples therapy methods and combines them in an holistic mix. You will find your viewpoint changes and you will genuinely use these new tools from DAY ONE - plus, you will wonder how you didn't know any of these skills before...
Benefits:
✔️ SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN HOW YOU COMMUNICATE
✔️ FOCUSED ON THE MARRIAGE/ RELATIONSHIP (not each other)
✔️ AWARENESS OF NEGATIVE PATTERNS
✔️ THE BEST OF THE BEST MARRIAGE RESEARCH
✔️ SKILLS GATHERED IN YOUR TOOLBOX (Day One)
✔️ EXERCISES, VIDEOS, WORKSHEETS & HOMEWORK
✔️ WORK AT YOUR OWN PACE - INDIVIDUALLY OR TOGETHER
The Andersen Method ® Combines the Best of the Best - Worldwide:
Ghita will teach and encourage you to become a better listeners and to better articulate your needs. This will also help you to gain a greater understanding of each other’s needs and concerns, and remove the elements which cause the spiral of negative communication (the circular argument).
The Couples Toolbox® (The Andersen Method) is a method that takes all the best couples therapy methods and combines them in an holistic mix. You will find your viewpoint changes and you will genuinely use these new tools from DAY ONE - plus, you will wonder how you didn't know any of these skills before...
Benefits:
✔️ SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN HOW YOU COMMUNICATE
✔️ FOCUSED ON THE MARRIAGE/ RELATIONSHIP (not each other)
✔️ AWARENESS OF NEGATIVE PATTERNS
✔️ THE BEST OF THE BEST MARRIAGE RESEARCH
✔️ SKILLS GATHERED IN YOUR TOOLBOX (Day One)
✔️ EXERCISES, VIDEOS, WORKSHEETS & HOMEWORK
✔️ WORK AT YOUR OWN PACE - INDIVIDUALLY OR TOGETHER
The Andersen Method ® Combines the Best of the Best - Worldwide:
- Ghita Andersen: Couples Codewords, Vent or Fix, Gender Pyramids, The Marriage Jar (1 & 2), Marriage as a Plant
- Carl Rogers - Active / Reflective Listening (USA) - How to Complain Constructively, How to be Heard/ Listen Actively. This is one of the most effective communication techniques ever taught to couples
- Family Dispute Resolution (Australia, UK & NZ) De-escalating Conflict and Stating Your Needs, Objective Rather Than Subjective (Removing Emotions)
- Esther Perel Methods (Belgium) - Infidelity (Why it Happens), The Gender Currencies (Anthropology): What sets off the Nervous System?, The Wiring and Motivations of Men and Women
- Family Therapy by Virginia Satir: The Dynamics of Family Systems
- Gottman Concepts - The 4 Horsemen: Defensiveness, Stonewalling, Criticism, Contempt
- 5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman, USA) - You and Your Partner's Love Language
- Narrative Therapy (Michael White and David Epston, NZ) - Externalising Problems to be Problems to be Worked on.
- Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) (Richard Bandler, John Grinder, USA) - The Language Influence: How to Talk to Your Spouse, How to Reframe your Internal Critic, How to Stop Treating Your Partner Like the Enemy
- CBT & Byron Katie Method: Reality Checking: Is it true? Is it universally true? How to check your viewpoint
- Renegotiating Marriage Contracts: Agreements about roles, responsibilities, household chores, finances, etc.
Ghita will teach and encourage you to become a better listeners and to better articulate your needs. This will also help you to gain a greater understanding of each other’s needs and concerns, and remove the elements which cause the spiral of negative communication (the circular argument).
★★★★★ Andersen Method: Testimonial Marriage Counselling 2022
We had been to Couples Counselling before with another counsellor. We felt we were being sold a package last time rather than doing the work, so we did not achieve much. I was convinced that we were separating and it was too late. This session was very different. Ghita nailed our problem and made us negotiate. After many years of arguing over the same thing, she showed us how to do deals. We should have done a pre-marital agreement long ago. I can see that now. I was of the mindset to leave, but one hour turned it around for us. We negotiated our personal time and even had a contingency plan for when things went wrong. Our homework was to fill in a full agreement covering all the other points we did not cover in session and to stick this on the back of a cupboard door. We both agree this session was nothing like what we expected. Thank you Ghita. - Jessica & Andrew. (Hope Island Gold Coast)
Examples of What Other Couples Have Learned
12 WEEK COUPLES TOOLBOX CHALLENGE (Ask Ghita about course)
Week 1: Individual Sessions: 2 Hours each (Worksheets required)
Week 2: Unpacking Vulnerabilities, Values & Triggers (1 hour Couples session)
Week 3: Healthy vs Unhealthy Complaining | Reframing Delivery (1 hour Couples session)
Week 4: Active Listening and I Statements (2 hour Couples workshop)
Week 5: Gender Currencies: The Wiring of Men & Women | Role Expectations | Our Expectations (1 hour Couples session)
Week 6: The 5 Love Languages and Why They Matter (1 hour Couples session)
Week 7: The Metaphors: The Marriage Jars | Post-it Note Challenge | The Plant (1 hour Couples session)
Week 8: Codewords for Couples (The Amazing Pineapple) | Vent versus Fix (1 hour Couples session)
Week 9: Bids For Connection (male vs female) | Reconnection Hour (1 hour Couples session)
Week 10: Date Night Cards | Creating Love Maps: Learning About Each Other (1 hour Couples session)
Week 11: The Pre-Marital Checklist | What have we forgotten to negotiate? What do I need from my partner. What is reasonable? (1 hour Couples session)
Week 12: Intimacy and Connection Workshops: Eye Gazing (1 hour Couples session)
Your Relationship Will Become Strong and Resilient
The overall goals of the Andersen Method is to assist couples in achieving an awareness and empathy towards each other and a good understanding and respect for the other partner's contributions to the relationship. In practicing this method, couples experience an increase in intimacy, affection and interpersonal growth.
How Much Have You Invested in Your Relationship?
It takes a lot of courage to book in for Couples Counselling, and we applaud that, but it may be the best investment you ever make in your relationship or family. If you are serious about getting marriage/ couples counselling please read our happy stories on our Reviews and Testimonials page...
What Sets Ghita Apart From Other Couples Counsellors?
Ghita Andersen is considered to be one of the Top Couples Counsellors on the Gold Coast and one of the Top 25 Couples Counsellors in Australia - according to Global Woman Leader Magazine.
Ghita has helped thousands of couples over the last decade she has been working on the coast. Ghita helps Australian couples working interstate and overseas via teletherapy sessions.
Text Ghita for a Complimentary 10 Minute Call-Back on 0439 888 070.
12 WEEK COUPLES TOOLBOX CHALLENGE (Ask Ghita about course)
Week 1: Individual Sessions: 2 Hours each (Worksheets required)
Week 2: Unpacking Vulnerabilities, Values & Triggers (1 hour Couples session)
Week 3: Healthy vs Unhealthy Complaining | Reframing Delivery (1 hour Couples session)
Week 4: Active Listening and I Statements (2 hour Couples workshop)
Week 5: Gender Currencies: The Wiring of Men & Women | Role Expectations | Our Expectations (1 hour Couples session)
Week 6: The 5 Love Languages and Why They Matter (1 hour Couples session)
Week 7: The Metaphors: The Marriage Jars | Post-it Note Challenge | The Plant (1 hour Couples session)
Week 8: Codewords for Couples (The Amazing Pineapple) | Vent versus Fix (1 hour Couples session)
Week 9: Bids For Connection (male vs female) | Reconnection Hour (1 hour Couples session)
Week 10: Date Night Cards | Creating Love Maps: Learning About Each Other (1 hour Couples session)
Week 11: The Pre-Marital Checklist | What have we forgotten to negotiate? What do I need from my partner. What is reasonable? (1 hour Couples session)
Week 12: Intimacy and Connection Workshops: Eye Gazing (1 hour Couples session)
Your Relationship Will Become Strong and Resilient
The overall goals of the Andersen Method is to assist couples in achieving an awareness and empathy towards each other and a good understanding and respect for the other partner's contributions to the relationship. In practicing this method, couples experience an increase in intimacy, affection and interpersonal growth.
How Much Have You Invested in Your Relationship?
It takes a lot of courage to book in for Couples Counselling, and we applaud that, but it may be the best investment you ever make in your relationship or family. If you are serious about getting marriage/ couples counselling please read our happy stories on our Reviews and Testimonials page...
What Sets Ghita Apart From Other Couples Counsellors?
Ghita Andersen is considered to be one of the Top Couples Counsellors on the Gold Coast and one of the Top 25 Couples Counsellors in Australia - according to Global Woman Leader Magazine.
Ghita has helped thousands of couples over the last decade she has been working on the coast. Ghita helps Australian couples working interstate and overseas via teletherapy sessions.
Text Ghita for a Complimentary 10 Minute Call-Back on 0439 888 070.
★★★★★ 5 Star Google Review: Marriage Counselling (Andersen Method) Package 2025: 'Working with Ghita Anderson has been one of the most transformative and empowering experiences. We have completed both couples counselling and individual NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) therapy. This has helped me shift long-standing patterns and reconnect with a deep sense of clarity, confidence, and joy.
In our couples sessions, Ghita created a warm, safe space where we could both feel heard and supported. Her guidance helped us communicate more honestly, understand each other’s needs without judgment, and rebuild our connection from a place of empathy and trust. Our relationship now feels so much more grounded and open—we’re truly working as a team again.
Individually, Ghita used NLP therapy to help me identify and reframe deep-seated self-limiting beliefs that had been running in the background for years. With her support, I was able to shift those patterns in ways that felt natural and lasting. I now approach life with more self-belief, purpose, and ease. The change has been profound—not only internally, but in how I show up in the world.
What’s been especially meaningful is how others have noticed the shift. Friends, colleagues, and even strangers have commented on how happy and light I seem. I couldn’t recommend Ghita more highly.' - Alisa - Palm Beach
★★★★★ Google Review (2024) 'What a turn around!! My wife and I came to Ghita with very different communication skills. We were feeling EXTREMELY defeated in our marriage and were desperately seeking direction. After just 5 sessions our communication skills are in a place we didn’t know were possible. It’s been about a month since our sessions and our marriage is still becoming stronger and stronger every day. 10 out of 10 recommend!' - Jason Eichenburger (Northern Rivers)
★★★★★ Testimonial via Text: Couples Counselling Package 2023: 'I thought my marriage was over. Truthfully, I was ready to give up. Things were so bad. Since the five week program, we have nothing to fight about. The other day my husband used the code word 'Pineapple' to share something about his childhood: I stopped and listened without judgement - and I was fully present. Normally, I would half listen, avoid feelings and get defensive when he got frustrated. That would result in a whole day of ill feelings and sulking on both sides. The conflict would start with such small things. This has really changed how we see each other's triggers and motivations. We have never been so close. We don't take things so personally. We are stronger and we make time for each other.' - Suzie van de Schraaf (Currumbin)
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