...finally come to therapy after struggling with their issues on their own for about 6 years on average, according to Dr John Gottman. You may be surprised to hear that although 69% of couple issues are "unsolvable", therapy can help you find new ways forward.
Couples therapy is provided for $150 per hour, and can be with two therapists (both Sharon and Bruce) if desired. If we haven't met you in a couples workshop, you may want to have a free session with us online so we can introduce ourselves, understand your perspectives and discuss the process.
In order to tailor helpful interventions to assist in your specific situation, we will ask you to complete individual questionnaires online before the first in-person session. Each questionnaire consists of 337 questions about the friendship, intimacy, emotions, conflict, values, and trust in your relationship, at a cost of approximately $60 AUD for the couple. We ask that couples do not share their individual responses or logins with each other since it's important that this data is private. After both questionnaires have been completed and submitted, we will contact you to discuss next steps, usually involving scheduling a first in-person appointment.
Before committing to couples therapy, would you like to have a taster of what sort of tools you could learn?
Would you like to meet Sharon and Bruce and figure out if you would feel comfortable with them?
Or you may not be having any relationship issues right now, but you might like an opportunity to refresh your relationship?
If you answered "yes" to any of the above, you might benefit from participating in a couples workshop. Please contact us and we can let you know if we have one coming up soon. Couples workshops can also be arranged for groups upon request.
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