Couples Counselling
Love isn't something you fall into once. It's something you learn to do together.
You're doing okay, but you wonder if you could be better. You lock horns every now and again, and there are things that trigger unhealthy responses. You just need some tools to help you have better conversations and find each other again. Does that sound familiar?
Relationship Counselling in Johannesburg or Virtual
All couples fight from time to time. In fact, arguing and disagreements are a natural part of any relationship. However, when those quarrels are left unresolved and hurtful words are exchanged, the relationship suffers and it can cause a rift between you and your partner.
To resolve this, it's sometimes worth getting an impartial, outside party to help with communication. Couples therapy, conducted by a professional, is the most effective way of doing this, and many couples see results after just one session.
Couples Help offers single sessions to determine your specific needs. Each session is three hours long, to give us the time and space to fully engage. At the end of a session, we’ll chat about where your relationship is at, and if you would both benefit from follow up sessions.
How can Relationship Counselling Help our Marriage?
Depending on what you want out of relationship counselling sessions, together, we will tailor each session to ensure that when you and your partner leave, you both feel that some positive progress has been made.
Some couples come to me hoping to transform their relationship in general, others prefer to focus on a specific issue. Either way, I'll carefully guide you to help find the best way forward.
The goal of each session is to guide you to identify and resolve issues in a safe environment. You will also be able to better understand your needs and move away from the past to a brighter future.
Why choose Couples Help for your relationship counselling?
At Couples Help, I use Imago Therapy in the hope of reconnecting you and your partner. I want every couple that attends one of my sessions to be able to journey to a new level of intimacy and connection with one another.
Whilst I understand that regaining a connection takes time, it’s my mission to give you the tools you need to get there. There’s nothing I'm more passionate about than helping couples save and restore their relationships through Imago-based couples counselling.
If relationship counselling sounds like it would be something beneficial for and your partner, please feel free to get in touch to see how I can help.
Counselling Focus Areas
Pre-Marriage Counselling
Ready to say 'I Do'?
Build a thriving marriage from the start. Pre-marriage counselling helps couples like you develop essential communication skills, navigate conflict effectively, and set realistic expectations for a happy and healthy partnership. Pre-Marriage Counselling →
Baby Ready
Finding out you're expecting a baby is the best news many of us will ever hear. At the same time, you need to prepare for how this will change your marriage and your relationship with each other.
Baby-Ready counselling, using Imago Therapy, helps you create space in your relationship for the new arrival while still maintaining intimacy and connection.
Bringing a child into your lives brings vulnerability and new challenges, but pregnancy counselling influenced by Imago Therapy helps you build and maintain regular connection rhythms and develop a deeper level of intimacy than ever before.
Good to Great
So you have a good marriage. Make it GREAT.
Good to Great couple's counselling helps to solidify strong, long-term relationships by bringing back the exciting times of a new relationship.
Many people only consider couples therapy when there is hurt and disconnection in their relationship, but I believe healthy relationships deserve your best intention to keep on learning. I will take you through a variety of ways you can invest time and energy into developing your love and intimacy for each other on a regular basis, allowing you to further grow as a couple.
Based on Imago Therapy, my work approaches your relationship itself - rather than two individuals - as I help you reconnect with each other and get the love you want.
Sex & Sensuality
Over time, many couples find that their intimacy and 'spark' wanes away, especially after several years of marriage. My sex therapy for couples will help you identify and work with the challenges in the intimate aspect of your relationship to unlock your full sexual potential with each other.
Using Imago Therapy, I help you both understand your lost sexual self, your disowned sexual self and your denied sexual self, as the way to grow a deep sexual wholeness and fullness within your relationship.
My sex therapy for couples is ideally run over two days in order to ensure you don't feel rushed with plenty of time to discuss everything you need to, and ensure you both feel in the best position to move forward.
I generally recommend booking a sex and sensuality session on a weekday so you can avoid the distractions of busy family life and take the following weekend together to discuss the workshop and your next steps as a couple.
Expats and International Couples
Many of the couples I meet live overseas and I have seen the strain this puts on relationships. Please get in touch, all of my sessions can be done virtually.
Intensives
Intensive marriage restoration is a type of counselling service for couples who are experiencing relationship problems or are going through difficult times. This form of marriage counselling takes place over a period of 2-3 days and allows licensed counsellors to help you and your partner get to the root of your issues.
Marriage Restoration Intensives
When weekly sessions can't reach deep enough.
Affair Trauma Intensives
A safe place to face what happened, and decide what comes next.
Testimonials
From those who’ve been there
The couples who have walked this journey with me have my deepest respect and awe. It takes courage to fight for love. They are the real heroes, my heroes. And these are their stories
"We came in with a desire to strengthen our bond and came out with tools to not only better our relationship but also our relationship with others."
“I think any couple (not necessarily a struggling one) would benefit from working with Louis.”
“My relationship has never been the same and I cant begin to express my gratitude for the levels of safety, love and connection we now both share.”
Book a Session
Sessions run anything from two hours to three days depending on your situation - in Johannesburg or online, wherever you are in the world.
I'm usually booked a few weeks ahead, so it's worth getting a date in the diary. Tell me a little about where things are and I'll come back to you.
Prefer to talk? Call or WhatsApp +27 (0) 60 951 3955