Repairing Gold Coast Marriages/ Relationships Since 2014
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When things are not perfect in your relationships, it can be daunting to consider help, and scary to admit to friends and family. However, with expert counselling and coaching you can stop fighting and be connected. Be Lovers Again! …Be Best Friends Again …Be Happy Again!
Couples Counselling - Gold Coast
Regardless of how long you have been married, or the nature of your marital problems, marriage counselling can offer huge benefits to a married couple. Even when your problems don’t seem that major or significant, marriage counselling can still benefit a couple striving to maintain a successful marriage – in fact, marriage counselling is best commenced before conflict becomes entrenched. Nonetheless, marriage counselling can help to repair damaged marriages and we have many happy stories of couples who have done just that. Testimonials
Many couples decide to come to counselling to learn to deal with conflict and arguments. Common issues include:
How Things Used To Be....
Once upon a time, your significant other was the one person you felt you could trust, depend on and ultimately be 'your' person - your one true love. Courtship can feel like the best thing you have ever experienced in your life, and is often referred to as one of the most exciting times in your life.
Pushing Through Difficult Times
It’s easy to be considerate and loving to your partner when everything is going well, the sun is shining, and employment is high. But when the power bill has not been paid, you’re tired or emotional, and your partner is getting cranky and blaming you for the problems in their life, that is when you get tested. You might not like what you see, and at times you might not feel like you really know this person any more and feel like your world is so small is perhaps impossible to change. These times in your relationship can be very hard, and at times overwhelming emotionally too...
Decades of Research: The Golden Combination
Marriage or Couples Counselling is a process based on decades of research, that has been proven, time and again, to have been a lifesaver for many relationships. For example, Gottman Marriage Therapy, Carl Rogers - Active Listening, Family Dispute Resolution and Esther Perel methods. Furthermore, these world renowned, successful approaches are the combination Ghita uses to help you and your partner to better manage conflict, deepen your friendship, intimacy and emotional connection and create a rich sense of shared meaning together.
Basically, one method is not enough. Here is our list of methods for marital repair...
Couples Therapy Methods Used in Sessions:
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When things are not perfect in your relationships, it can be daunting to consider help, and scary to admit to friends and family. However, with expert counselling and coaching you can stop fighting and be connected. Be Lovers Again! …Be Best Friends Again …Be Happy Again!
Couples Counselling - Gold Coast
Regardless of how long you have been married, or the nature of your marital problems, marriage counselling can offer huge benefits to a married couple. Even when your problems don’t seem that major or significant, marriage counselling can still benefit a couple striving to maintain a successful marriage – in fact, marriage counselling is best commenced before conflict becomes entrenched. Nonetheless, marriage counselling can help to repair damaged marriages and we have many happy stories of couples who have done just that. Testimonials
Many couples decide to come to counselling to learn to deal with conflict and arguments. Common issues include:
- Trust has been compromised in your relationship
- You’re not feeling heard
- You feel unacknowledged or under-appreciated
- You or your partner have become distant or withdrawn, anxious or clingy
- You are trying to repair things after an affair
- You or your partner have lost interest in sex
- The roles you have taken on (spouse, parent, bread winner) are not what you expected
- You’ve lost a sense of identity in the relationship
- Anger or stonewalling have become the predominate way you or your partner communicate
- There is a lot of blame and a lack of responsibility
How Things Used To Be....
Once upon a time, your significant other was the one person you felt you could trust, depend on and ultimately be 'your' person - your one true love. Courtship can feel like the best thing you have ever experienced in your life, and is often referred to as one of the most exciting times in your life.
Pushing Through Difficult Times
It’s easy to be considerate and loving to your partner when everything is going well, the sun is shining, and employment is high. But when the power bill has not been paid, you’re tired or emotional, and your partner is getting cranky and blaming you for the problems in their life, that is when you get tested. You might not like what you see, and at times you might not feel like you really know this person any more and feel like your world is so small is perhaps impossible to change. These times in your relationship can be very hard, and at times overwhelming emotionally too...
Decades of Research: The Golden Combination
Marriage or Couples Counselling is a process based on decades of research, that has been proven, time and again, to have been a lifesaver for many relationships. For example, Gottman Marriage Therapy, Carl Rogers - Active Listening, Family Dispute Resolution and Esther Perel methods. Furthermore, these world renowned, successful approaches are the combination Ghita uses to help you and your partner to better manage conflict, deepen your friendship, intimacy and emotional connection and create a rich sense of shared meaning together.
Basically, one method is not enough. Here is our list of methods for marital repair...
Couples Therapy Methods Used in Sessions:
- John and Julie Gottman (Sound Relationship House Theory) Gottman Method
- Active Listening Exercise (Carl Rogers and Richard Farson)
- Family Dispute Resolution Methods (Bond University)
- Esther Perel Teachings (Infidelity)
- Heart versus Ego (Andersen) Heart Versus Ego
- Narrative Therapy (David Epston and Michael White) Narrative Therapy
- 5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman)
- Pre-Marital Counselling Workshop Pre-Marriage Preparation Course
★★★★★ Marriage Counselling Testimonial: "We got married! Ghita, thank you so much for what you have done for our family!" Mr & Mrs Lees (Couples Counselling, Gold Coast).
★★★★★ Testimonial: Marriage and Individual Counselling: "My psychologist recommended you as some of her clients had done couples counselling and said that you were very direct and got straight into doing the work of unpacking the issues. I thought that was just what we needed for our situation. We didn't want the type of approach that would take weeks to make any progress. Thank you so much Ghita." - Angela (Couples Counseling: Currumbin).
★★★★★ Feedback 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)
First Session Relationship Diagnostic:
The first session is designed to diagnose what is not working in your relationship and to determine whether couples counselling would work for you or whether you are better off with individual sessions.
How to Communicate and Reconnect with Each Other
One issue that couples may bring to marriage counselling is a desire to reconnect and recommit to their marriage. If you have been married for a number of years, it can be challenging to come up with new and innovative ways to reconnect. Over time, we become settled in a rhythm and routine that may eventually become mundane and even boring. Several sessions with a marriage counsellor can help a married couple look at each other with fresh eyes.
Ghita can help each partner to learn to more carefully listen to what is being communicated to them, to reflect that message back to their partner and to then carefully proceed to send their own message back to their spouse. This process is called “active listening” (Carl Rogers) and is one of the most effective communication techniques ever taught to couples.
Very often, Ghita will give weekly assignments to be completed between sessions to aid the process towards restored intimacy and reconnection. These assignments can be as simple as having a date night instead of eating at home every evening, or as intimate as asking a couple to restore their physical touch and to spice up their love life. With a new vision of each other and increased feelings of intimacy and emotional commitment, a couple may feel more reconnected to each other and encourage them to recommit to their marriage.
How Much is It?
Health Funds: Many private funds rebate Couples Counselling (Item #300) List. Therefore it is worth checking with your provider. All bookings online receive an automatic email invoice/ receipt so that you don't have to ask for one.
How Long does Therapy Take?
Most couples come for a 4-6 sessions and then book in for top-ups as required.
Sorry, No Children: Please understand that professional therapists DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN IN SESSIONS for the reasons of disruption to the therapeutic process, damage to persons and property, public liability insurance limitations and second floor locations. If you do bring children/ babies with you your appointment may be cancelled and charged for. Please organise a baby-sitter well in advance.
Relationship Repair Workshops
Because we want to get you working as a team, we will help you to understand the relationship patterns underlying your problems. Subsequently, we recommend more than an hour for a workshop. We understand that each couple is unique and so the guidance and coaching will be tailored to your specific challenges and circumstances. Consequently, if your relationship is repairable, you should see progress after each session.
Are You Ready to Become The Couple You Used to be?
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. Marriage or Couples Counselling is a process based on decades of research, that has been proven, time and again, to have been a lifesaver for many relationships. There are many happy stories in our Testimonials page...
What if we Have Tried Couples Counselling Before and it Wasn't Successful?
Common statements that Ghita hears from new couples who have previously tried Couples Counselling (unsuccessfully) are:
'It was too softly, softly.'
'Too slow to unpack the issues.' 'We weren't getting anywhere.'
'One partner did not gel with the counsellor.'
'We felt that we were sold a 'package' that we didn't need.'
We understand that it is very 'personal' and it does make people feel vulnerable and uncomfortable; afterall secrets come out and the therapist has to unpack belief systems and often a lot of mistrust. Couples counselling is a process that requires an open heart and full trust in the professionalism of your therapist. Rapport is absolutely vital.
Furthermore, sometimes, people are not ready to make changes until one person talks about separation. However, you have to understand that a relationship that has broken down over years does not become healed in one session.
Attending counselling as issues arise and not leaving things to long; as well as trusting your therapist is important. Your counsellor will challenge you on what you bring to the relationship and sometimes this means a reality check.
Famous for her direct, no-nonsense approach, Ghita is known for her intuitive approach to problem solving and she will get to the heart of matters quickly. Expect to do some work! (Currumbin location only).
About Your Therapist
Ghita Andersen (B.Soc.Sci: Psych & Coun; Grad Cert FDR) is a professionally trained Counsellor and an Federally Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Mediator. Passionate about helping people and regarded as one of the most effective Couples Counsellors on the Gold Coast, Ghita uses a combination of methods designed to help clients to honestly express their needs in a safe, friendly environment.
Because Couples Counselling is a personal process, it is important to remember that there is an initial Free 10 Minute Phone Consultation available to help you decide whether couples counselling would be a helpful for you as a couple. Call Ghita today on 0439 888 070.
The first session is designed to diagnose what is not working in your relationship and to determine whether couples counselling would work for you or whether you are better off with individual sessions.
How to Communicate and Reconnect with Each Other
One issue that couples may bring to marriage counselling is a desire to reconnect and recommit to their marriage. If you have been married for a number of years, it can be challenging to come up with new and innovative ways to reconnect. Over time, we become settled in a rhythm and routine that may eventually become mundane and even boring. Several sessions with a marriage counsellor can help a married couple look at each other with fresh eyes.
Ghita can help each partner to learn to more carefully listen to what is being communicated to them, to reflect that message back to their partner and to then carefully proceed to send their own message back to their spouse. This process is called “active listening” (Carl Rogers) and is one of the most effective communication techniques ever taught to couples.
Very often, Ghita will give weekly assignments to be completed between sessions to aid the process towards restored intimacy and reconnection. These assignments can be as simple as having a date night instead of eating at home every evening, or as intimate as asking a couple to restore their physical touch and to spice up their love life. With a new vision of each other and increased feelings of intimacy and emotional commitment, a couple may feel more reconnected to each other and encourage them to recommit to their marriage.
How Much is It?
- Couples Counselling is $200 per hour. Although we recommend a Couples Intensive (2 hours) for your first session.
- 3 Step (Gottman) Package: $900 - Save $100 (Intensive)
- 5 Pack Couples Therapy: $900 - Save $100 (Weekly)
- Pre-Marriage Counselling (3 Hour Workshop): $550 (Before Wedding or Living Together)
Health Funds: Many private funds rebate Couples Counselling (Item #300) List. Therefore it is worth checking with your provider. All bookings online receive an automatic email invoice/ receipt so that you don't have to ask for one.
How Long does Therapy Take?
Most couples come for a 4-6 sessions and then book in for top-ups as required.
Sorry, No Children: Please understand that professional therapists DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN IN SESSIONS for the reasons of disruption to the therapeutic process, damage to persons and property, public liability insurance limitations and second floor locations. If you do bring children/ babies with you your appointment may be cancelled and charged for. Please organise a baby-sitter well in advance.
Relationship Repair Workshops
Because we want to get you working as a team, we will help you to understand the relationship patterns underlying your problems. Subsequently, we recommend more than an hour for a workshop. We understand that each couple is unique and so the guidance and coaching will be tailored to your specific challenges and circumstances. Consequently, if your relationship is repairable, you should see progress after each session.
Are You Ready to Become The Couple You Used to be?
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. Marriage or Couples Counselling is a process based on decades of research, that has been proven, time and again, to have been a lifesaver for many relationships. There are many happy stories in our Testimonials page...
What if we Have Tried Couples Counselling Before and it Wasn't Successful?
Common statements that Ghita hears from new couples who have previously tried Couples Counselling (unsuccessfully) are:
'It was too softly, softly.'
'Too slow to unpack the issues.' 'We weren't getting anywhere.'
'One partner did not gel with the counsellor.'
'We felt that we were sold a 'package' that we didn't need.'
We understand that it is very 'personal' and it does make people feel vulnerable and uncomfortable; afterall secrets come out and the therapist has to unpack belief systems and often a lot of mistrust. Couples counselling is a process that requires an open heart and full trust in the professionalism of your therapist. Rapport is absolutely vital.
Furthermore, sometimes, people are not ready to make changes until one person talks about separation. However, you have to understand that a relationship that has broken down over years does not become healed in one session.
Attending counselling as issues arise and not leaving things to long; as well as trusting your therapist is important. Your counsellor will challenge you on what you bring to the relationship and sometimes this means a reality check.
Famous for her direct, no-nonsense approach, Ghita is known for her intuitive approach to problem solving and she will get to the heart of matters quickly. Expect to do some work! (Currumbin location only).
About Your Therapist
Ghita Andersen (B.Soc.Sci: Psych & Coun; Grad Cert FDR) is a professionally trained Counsellor and an Federally Accredited Family Dispute Resolution Mediator. Passionate about helping people and regarded as one of the most effective Couples Counsellors on the Gold Coast, Ghita uses a combination of methods designed to help clients to honestly express their needs in a safe, friendly environment.
Because Couples Counselling is a personal process, it is important to remember that there is an initial Free 10 Minute Phone Consultation available to help you decide whether couples counselling would be a helpful for you as a couple. Call Ghita today on 0439 888 070.
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Please fill out your intake forms and email to Ghita prior to session.
Family Violence Screening: Couples Counselling is not Appropriate for Abusive Relationships: If there is any history of domestic violence, including chronic verbal abuse or DVO's we ask you to book in for Individual Counselling. Couples Counselling requires calmness, commitment and cooperation. See our Ebook: How to Recognise the Signs of Family Violence
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