COUPLES COUNSELLING: Professional Support for Resolving Struggles and Strengthening Relationships
Supporting Couples in Toowoomba, North Lakes, and Darwin
Get the Best Support with Couples Counselling to Build a Better Relationship
Feel Supported | Affordable | Private
Couples in need of support come to us for counselling from all walks and seasons of life. Often it is because their relationship has hit a rough patch and now seek guidance to find a path forward. For many other partners it can be acceptance that there’s been a shift in their emotional connection over time, and now want positive change.
With our expert help you can learn how to more successfully navigate your relationship. We offer affordable and professional relationship therapy within a safe, accepting, and private setting. Our practitioners are experienced in delivering modern and research-informed relationship approaches including the world-renowned Gottman Couples Therapy Method and other contemporary therapies tailored to best meet the unique needs of each couple.
Turn Your Struggles into Stepping Stones to a Stronger Relationship
Confidential | Collaborative
If you are experiencing relationship struggles or difficulties, then with the right counselling support it may be possible to look at those challenges from a manageable fresh perspective. Instead of letting disappointments and setbacks hold you back, learn how to turn them into stepping stones to rise above present circumstances. When partners work together and overcome obstacles and challenges faced, a relationship has an opportunity to become stronger and more resilient.
Getting help at the earliest sign of trouble is an important key in preventing a tough situation from worsening. By reaching out to our highly qualified couples counsellors, they can work with you collaboratively and confidentially. Benefit from their skills and insights to help you resolve the differences and difficulties in your partnership respectfully, move on from past hurts, build trust, improve communication, and reconnect more strongly and positively.
Begin Transforming Your Relationship Now With Professional Couples Counselling
Connect with GO-TO Counsellor Rohan Watson and his team of highly trained and qualified counsellors
Our practitioners are dedicated to helping couples strengthen, safeguard, and rescue their relationship. Begin transforming your relationship now with our professional support which is available in-person at 3 convenient locations: Toowoomba, North Lakes, and Darwin. Easy-access sessions are also available nationwide by phone or virtual face-to-face web-consults.
Explore and Discover Real Solutions with Couples Therapy
You’ll find our counsellors are genuine, empathetic, and down-to-earth. Their focus will be to get on your wavelength and together with you, find a pathway that best leads to a stronger relationship.
We care. We will listen and seek to understand what has brought you to this present point and then explore with you the goal or outcome of relationship counselling that you believe is important and right for you.
Take a positive first step today by reaching out and having a conversation with one of our caring and insightful counsellors. Give yourself the opportunity of learning new skills, seeing things from different perspectives, and discovering a purposeful way forward for a healthier, enriching, and more fulfilling relationship.
Improving Communication & Repairing Connection Between Couples
Communicating effectively gets harder the more you are under pressure and straining in a relationship emotionally, physically, or mentally.
A bridge is weakened when pillars beneath it fall into disrepair and dislodge. Similarly, the quality of communication crumbles and collapses if allowed to become destructive, adversarial and toxic. It weakens and wedges a partnership further apart, creating disconnection. Acting early to restore effective communication is paramount to prevent a relationship breaking down.
At Rohan Watson Counselling & Coaching, we help couples build connection for a stronger, healthier relationship. By equipping and empowering you with an essential communication skill-set, strategies, and special insights, your bond as a couple can be improved, making it possible for you to enjoy a more stable and satisfying relationship.
Our approach is to seek to work in agreement with you. Therapy is tailored to your specific need. Our focal point is helping you find real solutions to achieve the relationship goals and outcomes that you feel are right for your relationship.
Couples Counselling is available in-person in Toowoomba Qld, North Lakes Qld, and Darwin NT. Sessions are also available nationally by phone or virtual face-to-face web-consults. We look forward to supporting you.
7 Keys to How to Get the Best Help from Counselling
- Timing is Everything! Get help early.
- Cooperate. Be responsive to your counsellor who will want to support you with the best therapy solutions for your need.
- Really Listen. Come willing to listen and gain new insights. Your counsellor will seek to work in agreement with you to help achieve your goals.
- Openness. Be open to learning. Embrace counselling, don’t begrudge it. For change to happen, it first requires a deeper understanding of what it is that needs to change.
- Honesty. Be honest and authentic. Own your attitudes and actions.
- Find Positives. Acknowledge positives. Seek to find a silver-lining even when life isn’t easy.
- Continue as long as it takes. Resolutions may come quickly. Sometimes it takes longer. Your self-care is about the most important investment you ever make, so make it your foundation for healthy wellbeing and a brighter future.
Get in Touch
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Rohan Watson is the owner and principal of counselling and coaching practices in Toowoomba Qld, North Lakes Qld, and Darwin NT. He 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, Counselling and Education from Monash University and USQ, including a Master of Counselling (Advanced Practice) degree awarded with Distinction. Rohan is currently engaged in research in a PhD program with UniSC.
As a Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Mental Health Researcher, Rohan is dedicated to helping unlock the potential in people to live healthier, happier and more purposeful.
Rohan has facilitated and delivered mental health programs across rural and remote communities of Australia and provides professional psychotherapy to employees at all levels nationally through EAP based services.
Rohan is also a highly skilled Family Therapist and Couples and Marriage Counselling Specialist. He has a special interest in the online delivery of wellbeing programs. His current research is focused on mental health in Australian workplaces. Learn more.
Frequently Asked Questions
Couples counselling, also called couples therapy, is a therapeutic process that can be beneficial for partners 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 relationship issues. Engaging in professional counselling at the earliest opportunity potentially reduces the risk of problems escalating and impacting health and wellbeing.
Couples therapy can be helpful for any couple wanting to enhance the quality of their relationship and connection to strengthen their bond. Therefore, couples 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 partnership.
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 partnership forward in a direction that you believe is best for your relationship.
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 couples 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 couples counselling. Whilst couples counselling is well-recognised as a highly effective resource for partners struggling in their relationship, it isn’t a magic formula guaranteeing relationship success for all couples. What couples counselling can do is equip you with support, valuable skillsets, special strategies, and insights to work on your relationship 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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