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Brisbane Couples Counselling, based in Paddington Brisbane, offers specialised couples therapy for three core presentations. All sessions are delivered by Michelle Janssen, a Gottman-trained couples counsellor and PACFA Clinical Member. Affair Recovery and Infidelity Counselling This is one of the core specialisations at Brisbane Couples Counselling. Affair recovery is some of the most complex and emotionally intense work in couples therapy, and it requires a therapist with s

Choosing a couples therapist is one of those decisions that feels harder than it should be. There is a lot of information online, a lot of different practitioners, and no obvious way to know who is actually going to be helpful. If you are looking for a couples therapist in Paddington or the inner Brisbane area, here is what actually matters when making your decision. Training specifically in couples work This is the most important thing most people do not think to check. Many

If you are thinking about coming to couples counselling in Paddington, Brisbane, you probably have questions. What actually happens in a session? Will it be awkward? Do you have to talk about everything? Will the therapist take sides? These are the questions almost every couple asks before their first session, and they are worth answering honestly. Before your first session You do not need to prepare anything special. You do not need to agree with your partner about what the

View from my therapy room in Paddington There might not be a more loaded question in a relationship than this one. Do we have children? Do we want to? Does one of us want to and the other doesn’t? And what does it mean for us if we can’t agree? If you and your partner are sitting with this question right now, you are not indecisive, or immature. You are doing the honest, courageous work of figuring out what you actually want from your lives, and that takes time, self awarenes

Nobody tells you that at some point in a serious relationship, you’re going to have feelings about an Instagram follow. Maybe it’s your partner still following an ex. Maybe it’s a like on a photo that felt a little too personal. Maybe it’s the fact that your partner keeps their phone face down and you can’t quite articulate why that bothers you, but it does. Welcome to one of the most genuinely new relationship territories of our generation, the digital boundaries conversatio

Moving in together is one of the most exciting things you’ll do as a couple. It’s also one of the most underestimated. Not because living together is necessarily hard. But because most couples spend months talking about the apartment and almost no time talking about what life in it actually looks like. And then they’re six weeks in, mildly furious about dishes, and wondering why the person they love is suddenly annoying. Here’s the thing: the dishes aren’t the problem. The di