MARRIAGE COUNSELLING SERVICES: your bridge to a healthier, happier, marriage
TOOWOOMBA — NORTH LAKES — DARWIN
Reconnect, Rebuild, and Rediscover Your Affection and Love
Marriage Counsellors facilitate open and honest communication, helping partners rediscover their emotional connection, rebuild trust, and rekindle the affection and love that may have faded over time. This professional support and guidance empowers couples to nurture deeper understanding and an enduring bond, fostering a stronger, more resilient, and fulfilling relationship.
Welcome to our Marriage Counselling Services
Supporting You Towards a Stronger, Healthier Relationship
We are dedicated to helping couples within an accepting, discreet, and safe space to navigate the complexities of their relationship. This is achieved by offering skills, insights, interventions, and strategies for reconnection, rebuilding, and rediscovery.
Reconnect: Life’s challenges and distractions can divert attention, time, and energy causing couples to gradually drift apart. As therapists, we explore with partners a restorative path towards strengthening emotional reconnection that rekindles the marital bond that may have waned over time.
Rebuild: At the heart of how relationship hurdles are faced and handled, communication breakdowns and trust issues can be integral to any fallout. In marriage counselling, these are identified and addressed in a collaborative way with effective communication strategies and the rebuilding of trust, to return the partnership to a more solid foundation.
Rediscover: Deep affection and love that first drew a couple together may subsequently slip away out of sight. By encouraging partners to explore the romantic aspects of their relationship with marriage therapy guidance, couples can rediscover the joy of spending quality time together, re-spark their passion, and nurture affection and love, the pillar of their relationship.
Ultimately, our professional relationship counselling service is a resource that can offer you support in finding a way forward that leads to a more fulfilling and harmonious partnership.
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Tailored Marriage Therapy
Unlocking Your Potential and Unique Path for Relationship Success
Tailored therapy is a transformative journey in which your counsellor caters specifically to the unique dynamics and circumstances within your relationship. Unlike one-size-fits-all approaches, personal client-centred customised counselling is designed to better enable partners to navigate their distinctive issues and aspirations. As a couple, tailored marriage counselling gives you access to a highly effective and adaptive approach, not a cookie-cutter solution, to support you both in co-creating a healthier, happier partnership, uniquely suited to your needs and desires.
3 Service Delivery Options
Marriage Counselling is available in-person in Toowoomba Qld, North Lakes Qld, and Darwin NT. Support is also available for individuals and couples nationally by phone or virtual face-to-face web-consults. We look forward to supporting you.
Professional & Highly Trained Therapists: Learn & Grow
At our 3 convenient locations, qualified university-trained professional and registered counsellors are ready to help. Led by the director and practice principal, GO-TO counsellor Rohan Watson, they will genuinely make it their earnest priority to help you find and realise real relationship solutions for your situation and needs.
We will work in agreement with you respectfully, caringly, and confidentially to deliver quality counselling services based on modern evidence-informed, research-proven approaches.
It’s never too late to begin creating positive change. It starts with an openness to learn and grow. Put time on your side. Seeking help early is an opportunity to enhance a likelihood of quicker and better-quality outcomes.
If your relationship is stress-filled, difficult and troubled, you might be experiencing a wave of emotions and wondering what went wrong. Perhaps you feel sad, angry, frustrated, resentful, overwhelmed, stuck, or even embarrassed. Navigating thoughts and feelings to find a way forward is where trained therapists can help.
Couples who try to resolve and repair a rocky relationship on their own usually discover they’re on a prickly and painful path. Most partners simply lack the special skills required to work through complex challenges and hard to control human emotions. It can be particularly tricky because of the ease by which each partner may leverage their intimate knowledge of the other partner’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities. That’s where professional marriage therapists can calmly bring impartial, independent insights and fresh perspectives, lifting the fog so couples can see workable solutions.
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The Effectiveness of Marriage Counselling: Compelling Insights
Marriage counselling has long been considered a valid and vital resource for couples experiencing relationship challenges. The effectiveness of such counselling services as reported in studies in Australia and abroad find that outcomes are overwhelmingly positive.
Marriage Therapy Success:
Authors of the research, “Couple therapy in the 2020s: Current status and emerging developments”, highlight that for an average person completing a course of couples therapy, at least 70% had positively benefited compared to those who hadn’t sought help. In an Australian evaluation on marriage counselling, 78% of women and 83% of men who were still together at the time of commencing couples therapy, reportedly credited counselling for a change for the better in resolving problems. Just as impressive, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy reveal a study found nearly 90% of clients who sought help from marriage and family therapists had achieved better emotional health, and almost two-thirds reported their physical wellbeing improved too.
Better Health & Wellbeing:
Practitioners delivering marital therapy typically find themselves working with couples presenting with a wide range of issues. They will be confronted with different intensities of relationship disconnection and discord and flow-on effects of reduced health and wellbeing impacting the individual partners. In comparison to the country’s general population, research found Australian relationship counselling clients “reported 4 times the rate of very high psychological distress”. Therefore, that raises the importance of pursuing marriage counselling as a significant core benefit is helping improve a couples’ ability to communicate effectively and constructively resolve conflicts. When therapeutic support and guidance enables stress and strife to subside leading to a healthier relationship, so too is the wellness of the individuals improved.
Reduce Divorce Risk:
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2021, over 89,000 couples married and more than 56,000 divorces were granted. Of those who were granted a divorce, the average duration of the marriage was 12.2 years with 47.8% of the divorced couples having children under 18 years. Marriage counselling has shown to be a viable way to help couples work out their relationship problems together. But even when a couple are going down the path of divorce, counselling can still be valuable in helping navigate that perplexing process less painfully and with respectful regard for each partner’s needs.
For spouses wanting to save their relationship, the rescuing of a relationship becomes harder the longer issues are left unaddressed and allowed to fester and deteriorate over time. Early intervention favours best outcomes.
Long-Term Benefits:
Couples who have successfully engaged in marital therapy report the benefits are often far-reaching, beyond remedying immediate distress and conflict. Learnings arising from couples counselling such as communicating deeper understanding and empathy, and having cooperative stickability towards finding solutions, strengthens sustainability of their bond. These same skills also have wider life application, and not only contribute to relationship satisfaction but overall wellbeing as well, underscoring the enduring value of professional therapy.
In short, marriage counselling has proven to be a highly effective resource for couples in Australia and elsewhere. For partners committed to preserving and strengthening their marital bond, therapy not only helps resolve present issues, but also equips couples to better manage future challenges and create long-term fulfilling relationships.
GO-TO Counsellor Rohan Watson
ROHAN WATSON is a member of the Australian Counselling Association and a general member of the International Association of Applied Neuroscience. He holds graduate and post-graduate qualifications in Psychology, Education, and Counselling from Monash University and USQ, including a Master of Counselling (Advanced Practice) degree awarded with Distinction. Rohan is currently engaged in research for a PhD program with UniSC.
Rohan leads a team of professional counselling practitioners, and operates practices in Toowoomba Qld, North Lakes Qld, and Darwin NT.
As a Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Mental Health Researcher, Rohan is dedicated to helping unlock the potential in people to live happier, healthier, and more purposeful.
Rohan Watson
Frequently Asked Questions
Marriage counselling is a therapeutic process that can be beneficial for couples facing challenges such as communication problems, trust issues, conflicts, infidelity, or desire to improve their relationship. It provides a safe and structured environment to work through marital issues. Engaging in professional counselling at the earliest opportunity potentially reduces the risk of problems escalating and impacting health and wellbeing.
Marriage counselling can be helpful for any couple wanting to enhance the quality of their relationship and connection to strengthen their marriage. Therefore, marriage counselling isn’t only for couples experiencing difficulties in a relationship.
Research-informed approach —
The couples therapy services we offer are based on evidence-informed scientifically proven research approaches and techniques providing confidence in their effectiveness. The principles, skills, and strategies you may learn have been validated to work when applied.
Highly trained and accredited professionals —
Our counsellors are highly trained and qualified with most holding post-graduate specialisations and are accredited members of a key professional association such as the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) or the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA). They are held to high ethical standards and fulfill ongoing professional development and supervision requirements to apply best practice and contemporary approaches to therapeutic service delivery.
Friendly, Caring, Solutions-Oriented —
It is of genuine importance to us that all clients can engage with our friendly counsellors within a respectful and caring environment. Our therapists are empathetic, supportive, and passionate in pursuing the right help and solutions for couples no matter how challenging the circumstances.
Couples seek our help for many different reasons. Any support provided is therefore tailored to the unique needs specific to the couple. You’ll be afforded a private setting in which you can confidentially share concerns and freely discuss feelings, thoughts, and actions.
At the initial stage, your counsellor would listen and seek to gain an understanding of what has brought things to this particular point, and then explore with you the priorities that you may want to resolve, improve, or change for the better in your marriage.
It is a collaborative process. Once there is clarity around the need and priorities, your counsellor will then be able to provide specific support through the introduction of insights, skills and strategies that best match your circumstances and outcome aspirations. Your counsellor is like a compass, helping you to move your relationship forward in a direction that you believe is best for your marriage.
A standard session runs for approximately 50 minutes.
Our fees and booking policies can be found under the ‘bookings’ tab in the menu at the top of our website Homepage.
The duration of marriage counselling can vary. Some couples may find resolution in just a handful of sessions, while others may benefit from longer-term therapy. The level of complexity in the relationship issues and the specific outcome or goals being sought, are key factors that influence the therapy engagement period.
Determined commitment and effort of both partners to invest in the therapy is the best way to approach marriage counselling. Whilst marriage counselling is recognised in well-established research as a highly effective resource for couples struggling in their relationship, it isn’t a magic formula guaranteeing relationship success for all couples. What marriage counselling can do is equip you with support, valuable skillsets, special strategies, and insights to work on your marriage issues. Ultimately, the outcome will crucially depend on the willingness of both partners to actively participate and make changes for the better in their relationship.
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