Couple and Family Counselling

Repair Your Relationships and Improve Communication

Has communication with your partner, kids or loved ones become difficult? Is it hard to talk about daily matters, or more complex situations without emotions escalating?

When communication becomes difficult or breaks down, people can become distressed and reactive, and problems can seem unsolvable. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) can help you reduce conflict, break negative cycles, strengthen bonds and restore trust.

Build Secure Attachment with Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

When life feels overwhelming, we all need someone to turn to. That someone could be a partner, a parent, or a loved one. Feeling safe, secure, and supported in our relationships builds a strong emotional foundation, known as secure attachment.

For Parents:
Children thrive when they feel both cared for and encouraged. This sense of safety gives them the confidence to explore the world, and the comfort of knowing they can come back to you when things get hard.

For Couples:
Adult relationships work the same way. When we feel seen, trusted, and valued, intimacy deepens. But when disconnection, control, or betrayal creeps in, those bonds can become strained or broken.

Couple and Family Therapy can help rebuild trust, improve communication, and create the kind of connection where people feel secure and understood.

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Indicators of Safety and Security in Relationships

Feeling heard, understood, and emotionally supported

Boundaries are honoured, and trust is built over time

Feelings can be expressed without fear of judgment or retaliation

Feeling confident your partner or loved one will be there for you when needed

Conflict can be addressed calmly and resolved respectfully

Differences are embraced without threatening the relationship bond

"Distressed partners are always asking the same basic questions,

Are you there for me? Do I matter to you?

Will you come when I need you, when I call?"

-Dr. Sue Johnson

(Clinical Psychologist, Researcher and Author; Primary developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT))

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Couple and Family Counselling Will Help You:

Understand Attachment Bonds

Understand your attachment needs, and the needs of those you love.

Change Habits and Patterns

Recognize repetitive habits that cause distress with your partner or family.

Build a More

Secure Bond

Create a safer more secure connection with those you love.

Our Approach:

Emotionally Focused Couple and Family Therapy

Couple Therapy

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples learn to Understand Their Attachment History, better understand each other's needs and fears, and recognize cycles that lead to emotional escalation or avoidance. Couples learn to Stop Overreacting to Emotional Triggers so they can heal attachment bonds and communicate in more helpful ways.

Family Therapy

Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) helps parents provide a safe haven and a secure base that allows kids to explore, build skills and express their needs and fears. Parents learn to understand problem behaviour, emotional escalation and withdrawal as strategies kids use to cope with needs and fears.

This approach will help you:

Better understand your attachment needs and fears

Recognize negative relationship patterns that create distress and distance

Reduce instances of emotional escalation

Improve communication

Become less judgemental and more compassionate with yourself and others

Create safer, more secure attachment and increase connection in relationships

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Why We're Different

At Five Star Wellbeing, we know wellbeing is more than an absence of problems.

Wellbeing can be understood as one’s psychological, social or physical ability to meet and manage challenges. It can be defined as “how people feel about and experience their daily lives.”

Wellbeing is different from happiness. It's possible to be unhappy and still have wellbeing. While we work together on what you are struggling with, we'll ensure you won't lose sight of your strengths and what's already working for you in your life.

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Purpose Wellbeing

Even when things aren't going well, people who have a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives are happier, more productive, more resilient and less likely to experience mental health problems.

What inspires you? What breaks your heart? Answers to questions like these will help you find things that give you purpose.

Social Wellbeing

A few positive supportive relationships in your life can make a big difference. Social relationships act as a buffer against stress, improve immunity and cardiovascular function. They also protect against depression, anxiety and substance abuse.

Who can you rely upon when things are tough? Who can rely on you?

Physical Wellbeing

Mental health is dependent on physical health. Seventy-five percent of medical expenses come from mostly preventable illnesses. People who attend to their physical health experience less stress, take fewer sick days, are happier and more productive.

Do you provide your body with the right nutrients, rest and movement it needs to function optimally? To avoid mental and physical illness?

Financial Wellbeing

Financial wellbeing and mental health are closely linked. People with mental health problems are 3.5 times more likely to be in problem debt, and half of those in debt, have mental health problems.

How financially stable, secure and confident do you feel about your financial future?

Community Wellbeing

Feeling a sense of connection and belonging to the communities we live and work in prevents loneliness, increases immunity and promotes positive mental health.

Do you feel emotionally and physically safe? Do you feel like you you matter? That you are relied on and cared for by the people in your community?