Wondering if Couples Therapy is right for you?​

If you or your partner are considering separation/divorce but are not completely sure that's the best path, you are in a tough spot.

Discernment Counselling is designed for you!

It's a chance to slow down, take a breath, and look at options for your Relationship.
  • I will help you decide whether to try to restore your Relationship to health, move toward separation/divorce or take a time out and decide later
  • The goal is for you to gain Clarity and Confidence about a direction based on a deeper understanding of your Relationship and its possibilities for the future
  • The goal is NOT to solve your Relationship problems but to see IF they are solvable
  • You will each be treated with compassion and respect no matter what you are feeling about your Relationship at the moment. No bad guys; no good guys
  • You will come in as a couple, but the most important work occurs in one-on-one conversations with me.  Why? because you are starting from different places
  • I will respect your experiences, and yet I will challenge each of you to take responsibility for what yourself have brought to this current impasse 
  • We will work towards each of you understanding what you bring to the current situation, your own contributions and possible solutions
  • It is important to note that Discernment Counselling is very different, with very different goals, than the Couples Therapy that I also offer

Discernment Counselling gives you the chance to slow down and reflect.....

To clarify, the goal of Discernment Counselling is NOT to work on the Relationship; it is to see IF the couple wishes to or can undertake the work required to rejuvenate the Relationship.

It is short term in nature (a maximum of 5 sessions) and we work together to gain Clarity and Confidence in making a decision about the future direction of the Relationship.

This will be based - through intensive work with me - on a deeper understanding of what's happened within the Relationship and each of your contributions to the problems being experienced within the Relationship.