Talk Therapy Canada
Couples Therapy
Therapy to help you and your partner work through challenges & understand each other on a deeper level.
Find deeper connection
Improve communication
Get on the same page
We help you understand each other’s love language...
- Be seen, heard, and understood
- Renegotiate shared meaning & purpose
- Heal after infidelity
- Learn how to communicate in a way that brings connection and mutual understanding
- Renew your joy and validation
…so you don’t spend your lifetime translating each other’s souls.
Video or phone Couples Therapy
What is couples therapy and who is it for?
Couples therapy offers a safe space where you and your partner can come together and talk openly about your challenges, needs, and goals for your relationship. Our couples therapists are impartial third parties who can help you navigate through tough conversations, understand each other’s perspectives, and find practical solutions to strengthen your connection.
In this supportive environment, you both have the opportunity to express your feelings and concerns constructively, without fear of judgment. Through effective communication techniques and exercises, our therapists will guide you in developing a deeper understanding of each other and learn how to communicate more effectively. By working together, you can build a stronger foundation for your relationship and create a more fulfilling and harmonious partnership.
Love doesn’t make it easy. Love is the committed grit that enables you to learn the skills to make it worthwhile.
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What can couples therapy help with?
If you are feeling misunderstood, disrespected, or betrayed, couples therapy can help you and your partner:
Improve Communication
Effective communication is the cornerstone of a healthy relationship. In couples therapy, you’ll learn practical strategies to express your thoughts and feelings openly and honestly, while also developing the skills to actively listen and empathize with your partner’s perspective. By fostering clear and respectful communication, you can cultivate a deeper understanding of each other, leading to greater harmony and connection in your relationship.
Rebuild Trust After Infidelity
Infidelity can shatter trust and destabilize a relationship. In couples therapy, you’ll have the opportunity to address the underlying issues that contributed to the infidelity and work through the pain and betrayal together. Through open dialogue and guided exercises, you’ll rebuild trust by fostering transparency, accountability, and a renewed commitment to each other. With the support of a trained therapist, you can heal from the wounds of infidelity and move forward toward a stronger, more resilient relationship.
Deepen Intimacy
Intimacy goes beyond physical closeness—it’s about feeling deeply connected and understood by your partner. Couples therapy provides a safe space to explore and nurture intimacy on all levels, from sharing your innermost thoughts and feelings to rediscovering the passion and romance in your relationship. By learning to communicate authentically and express vulnerability, you can cultivate a deeper emotional bond and reignite the spark of intimacy, fostering a fulfilling and satisfying connection with your partner.
Navigate Life’s Challenges Together, Effectively
Life is full of ups and downs, and how you navigate these challenges as a couple can strengthen your bond or create tension. In couples therapy, you’ll learn practical strategies to tackle common stressors such as financial strain, parenting conflicts, and managing busy schedules. By developing effective problem-solving skills and fostering open communication, you can face life’s obstacles as a united front, building resilience and solidarity in your relationship.
Create Shared Purpose
Creating Shared Meaning: In therapy, you’ll discover what’s important to both of you and find common ground in your values, goals, and dreams. By developing shared routines and goals, you’ll build a stronger bond and give your relationship more depth and purpose.
Options for Couples Therapy
What type of couples therapy is right for you?
At Talk Therapy Canada, we use one of three evidence-based solutions to facilitate communication and healing between you and your partner. To ensure you receive the right care, at the right time, with the right dose, we always start with an assessment. All participants in couples therapy and groups require an in-depth assessment prior to participating in one of the streams below.
Assessment Includes
- Joint session with the couple and therapist to review background information and communication style
- Each member of the couple then completes a series of individual metrics
- Each member of the couple attends an individual session
- Joint session to review assessment findings and discuss a therapeutic plan
Depending on your situation, assessment, preference and desired goals, we may recommend:
Traditional Couples Therapy
- Tailored to your needs, schedule, and goals.
The Gottman Method is a flexible and fully customizable approach to couples therapy that includes an assessment of the relationship and integrates research-based interventions based on the Sound Relationship House Theory.
The Gottman Method strives to assist couples in achieving a deeper sense of understanding, awareness, empathy, and connectedness within their relationships that ultimately leads to heightened intimacy and interpersonal growth. By combining therapeutic interventions with couples exercises, this type of therapy helps couples identify and address the natural defences that hinder effective communication and bonding.
Couples who prefer a completely personalized therapy experience using Gottman Therapy. It’s a flexible program designed to support couples across all economic, racial, sexual orientation, and cultural sectors. Research has shown Gottman Method Couples Therapy to be effective for treating both opposite–sex and same-sex relationships. Some of the relationship issues that may be addressed in therapy include:
- Frequent conflict and arguments
- Poor communication
- Emotionally distanced couples on the verge of separation
- Specific problems such as sexual difficulties, infidelity, money, and parenting
$180-$190 per 50 minute session
Please note that sessions are billed individually and receipts are provided for your submission to private insurance.
Level of personal disclosure and involvement 5/5
As this approach is all about building a program around your needs, you are required to show up and actively participate in the topics raised by both the couple and the therapist each week.
Get started with a free 20-minute consultation with your preferred therapist for you and your spouse.
Stronger Together Program
- 10 weeks to better communication, connection and intimacy.
10 pre-planned, structured sessions with you and your spouse covering topics from assessment, to managing conflict, to the art of compromise, to dreams within, to nurturing your fondness, admiration, and so much more!
Stronger Together is our signature 10-week structured program, designed to move you and your partner from loneliness, disconnect, and pain to better communication, increased intimacy, and strengthening of shared goals & meaning. Together we work through assessments, and individual and couples sessions to rebuild trust, deepen understanding, and create a stronger foundation for the future.
$ 1855*
*Includes the cost of the Relationship Builder, purchased directly from our Gottman Partners.
Please note that sessions are billed individually and receipts are provided for your submission to private insurance.
Level of personal disclosure and involvement 4/5
You are asked to show up and participate in the topics raised each week by your therapist.
Get started with a free 20-minute consultation with your preferred therapist for you and your spouse.
Divorce-Proof Your Marriage Workshop
- The 10 conversations you need to have to understand yourself and your partner better.
This workshop consists of 10 group sessions with you and your spouse and other like-minded couples who gather together to have conversations that will help you and your partner stay connected.
This is a tailored blend of group therapy sessions designed to help you build a strong foundation for your relationship. Whether you’re engaged, newlyweds, or are looking to make your relationship as strong as possible, this program focuses on fostering effective communication, trust, and intimacy. Learn essential strategies to navigate challenges and nurture a lasting, fulfilling marriage. Together we will explore topics such as conflict resolution, intimacy, finances, and more through engaging lectures and interactive activities. This program is designed to help you know your partner on a deep level and learn about the experiences, beliefs, and values that make them who they are. This is a must for people who want to take their relationship to the next level. Because forever is worth the investment!
$1000*
* Includes 10 group sessions, which are billed by the session.
Please note that sessions are billed individually and receipts are provided for your submission to private insurance.
Level of personal disclosure and involvement 1/5
You are required to show up, but you can take a more passive role, as the group can still function without direct member involvement.
Get started with a free 20-minute consultation with your preferred therapist for you and your spouse.
Gottman Method
All of our couples therapy utilizes evidence-based care including the Gottman Therapy method.
*Within each program, we may occasionally meet individually if there is a piece of individual work that can be completed to assist in moving the couples’ goals forward. Or we may refer you for individual therapy.
*Couples who enter our programs begin with an assessment process that then informs the therapeutic framework and intervention. Therapeutic Interventions are designed to help couples strengthen their relationships in three primary areas: friendship, conflict management, and creation of shared meaning. Couples learn to replace negative conflict patterns with positive interactions and to repair past hurts. Interventions and skills designed to increase closeness and intimacy are used to improve friendship, deepen emotional connection, and create changes which enhances the couples’ shared goals. Relapse prevention is also addressed.
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We offer a free 20-minute consultation so you can meet the therapist, ask questions, and decide if it feels like the right fit for you
Welcome to
Talk Therapy Canada
We believe in the power of collaboration
We may be experts in therapy, but you’re the expert on yourself and your goals.
When you’re struggling with challenges that are impacting your day-to-day life, it can feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.
We believe that openness, empathy, and a sense of humour are cornerstones of successful therapy, and we have built our practice on these values while holding space for healing and renewal.
Talk Therapy Canada is set apart by the fact that we use best practice evidence-based care to ensure that you receive the highest standard of treatment and support.
Since Talk Therapy Canada is built on diverse levels of expertise, we are able to accommodate a wide range of treatment options as we continue to grow to meet the changing needs of Canadians coast to coast!
Transformation isn’t simply our area of expertise—it’s our passion!
We are honoured to walk with you on a piece of your journey.
Our practice is built on providing therapy with:
The Right Care
During the assessment process we pay attention to your needs & goals to determine what the proper intervention will be for the specific challenges you are facing.
The Right Time
We look at your goals and identify the smaller steps that can be taken along the way, supporting you to arrive where you want to be.
The Right Dose
We chart a therapeutic path that is sensitive to unique needs. While some situations require a more intense approach, all will benefit from a more thoughtful journey.
Find The Right Fit
We thoughtfully match you with a therapist whose expertise and approach align with your unique needs and goals.
Our Approach
How Our Couples Therapy Works
Connect With Us
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In our free 20-minute consultation, you can explore your goals, ask questions, and get a feel for whether the therapist is the right fit for you before moving forward.
Schedule Your First Session
Continuing therapy is simple. We book appointments that work with your schedule and needs.
Ongoing Therapy
We’ll work together to implement tailored strategies & provide ongoing support to help you create lasting change.
Free 20-Minute Consultation
During your free 20-minute consultation, you’ll meet with the therapist of your choice to talk about what brings you to therapy, ask questions, and get a feel for whether it’s the right fit for you. This brief meeting helps you understand their approach, style, and how they can support you before committing to a full session.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Couples Therapy
My partner doesn’t want to do couples therapy with me. Can I still receive support?
Yes! Many people come to therapy as they feel they need support in decision-making around their relationship, or they want to talk through things that have happened. While in a relationship, it can sometimes feel like everything is our partner’s fault, coming to individual therapy can help you regain a sense of control over what’s been happening. Looking within, identifying your needs, and growth opportunities can be a wonderful experience that can help you in the achievement of your goals leading to increased happiness, and life satisfaction.
Is couples therapy only for couples in crisis?
Nope! Couples therapy is an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of who you and your partner are, and how your early life experiences have contributed to your current values and beliefs. The foundation of every successful relationship is strong communication, and proactive conversations about important life experiences, shared, values, meaning, and goals. Couples therapy can help you navigate major life transitions, such as getting married, having a baby, moving in together, sharing finances, and navigating the challenges that come along even within the healthiest of relationships. Couples therapy helps build a strong foundation to give you success for years to come.
How long does couples therapy take?
Our assessment process for all programs is three steps. Firstly, a skilled therapist meets with both of you to understand who you are, what brought you into therapy, and your history together. After that you each complete metrics. Next, your therapist meets with you individually. Thirdly, you come back together with your therapist to go over your assessment and treatment plan. There you collectively decide what program is the best fit for you. Most couples begin to see a change after several sessions, as we provide immediately helpful skills and interventions to move you towards your goals. Some couples may benefit from short-term therapy, consisting of a few sessions, while others may require longer-term therapy to address more complex issues. This can be discussed in greater detail with your therapist.
Will our therapist judge us or take sides?
Absolutely not! Our therapists are highly trained and create a non-judgmental, open space where you and your partner can feel seen and heard. We are focused on helping you and your partner achieve your goals while facilitating a deeper understanding of each other. We are committed to providing clinical expertise while listening with empathy and compassion. Our goal is to create a space where you feel secure and comfortable sharing your emotions, thoughts, and feelings during therapy. We don’t assign blame, take sides, or have favourites. Rest assured, we are here to support you both while partnering to get you to where you both want to go.
Which couples therapy program is right for us?
All of our couples therapy programs are designed with evidence-based, best practices, skills, and interventions. Rest assured that all of our programs can help you and your partner in numerous ways.
Gottman couples therapy is a flexible program with you, your spouse, and your therapist designed to support couples in achieving their goals. Some of the relationship issues that may be addressed in therapy include frequent conflict and arguments, poor communication, emotional distance, couples on the verge of separation, and specific problems, such as sexual difficulties, infidelity, money, and parenting. The frequency of sessions and duration of treatment are decided by you, your partner, and your therapist.
Our Stronger Together program is a 12-week structured program with you, your spouse, and a therapist designed to move you and your partner from loneliness, disconnect, and pain to better communication, increased intimacy, and strengthened shared goals and meaning.
Our Divorce-Proof Your Marriage program is a structured program that is a combination of a couple with a therapist and a couple with Group Sessions. This program is an opportunity to elevate your relationship to new heights and connect on deeper levels in key areas of relationship success. Topics covered include trust and commitment, addressing conflict, sex and intimacy, work, money, family, fun and adventure, growth and spirituality, and more. Group Sessions involve interactive and exciting lectures, exercises, and activities. Come prepared to think, feel, and connect on new depths.
Our supportive intake team can help you figure out which program works best for you.
How do we choose a couples therapist that’s right for us?
A good fit with your therapist is key. It’s important that both partners feel comfort and trust with their therapist. Factors such as the therapist’s experience working with couples, qualifications, and therapeutic approach are helpful to know.
We want you both to feel supported at every step. Our intake team will work with you to match you with a therapist who is a great fit.
Please don’t hesitate to connect with us! We would be happy to hear from you with any questions you may have, or to enquire about booking sessions with one of our qualified clinicians.
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The Impact Couples Therapy Can Have
Some people start feeling better after a few sessions, while others continue for months or even years. How long you come to therapy will vary because everyone is different.
You can keep coming to therapy for as long as you need! Even after you’ve achieved your goals and are feeling good, therapy can still be a helpful space to relax, talk things through, or get advice from someone you trust.
Over time, you may notice that you:
- Talking together becomes easier as you get better at communicating your needs and wants, and learn to set boundaries
- You start understanding yourselves and each other more
- You learn valuable tools for solving problems together, finding middle ground, and talking things out
- You feel more connected; like you are on the same page more often
- You feel more certain about the future direction of your relationship, whether it means staying together or going your separate ways
- You develop more intimacy and joy in being with your partner
How To Get Started
We start with a free 20-minute consultation.
For new clients, this consultation is a welcoming space to share what you’re struggling with and what you hope to work on. We’ll answer your questions, explain possible next steps, and help you feel confident moving into your first full session with the therapist of your choice.
You can schedule your consultation using the “Book Online” button below.
Other Ways to Book a Session:
If you’re not sure who to book with, our admin team can help.
We’ll learn a bit about what you’re looking for and pair you with a therapist who fits your needs, then help you book a free 20-minute consultation or a full session.
647-478-9569