Couples Therapy

in the West Kootenays

Offering Virtual and In-Person Relationship Counselling

Helping you re-establish connection and move towards each other.

Our Relationship Therapists

  • Brittany MacCuspic

    COUNSELLOR & REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKER

  • Richelle Johnston

    FOUNDER & REGISTERED CLINICAL COUNSELLOR

Couples and relationship therapy

Noticing distress in your relationship, partnership, or marriage?
Feeling unseen and unheard by your partner?
Experiencing loneliness in your relationship?
Suffering from betrayal or infidelity?
Desiring more connection, intimacy, and openness in your partnership?

What is Couples and Relationship Therapy?

Conflict and distress in relationships can feel scary, uncertain, and hurtful. Whether you and your partner are feeling disconnected, constantly in conflict, unseen, unheard, or unsupported by the other, or have experienced relationship injuries such as infidelity or betrayal, beginning couples therapy can be the first step towards healing and reconnection. If you want more, deeper connection, emotional intimacy, healthy communication, sexual satisfaction, and the feeling of true partnership, couples and relationship therapy can help!

relationship and couples therapy

Symptoms of disconnection in Couples/Relationships:

  • Chronic miscommunication

  • Quick to argue or engage in conflict with each other

  • Feeling unheard, unseen, unsupported by your partner

  • Feeling lonely and alone in the partnership

  • Spending less time with each other

  • Trust issues

  • Concurrent mental health distress such as depression or anxiety

  • Bristle response or annoyance with your partner

Couples and marriage therapy

With Couples Therapy, we can help!

Our couples and relationship therapists work collaboratively with you and your partner to design a therapeutic plan that meets both of your needs and alleviates distress in the relationship. We believe in wellness through connection and we strive to create a positive, reparative, and affirming therapeutic relationship with each of our clients. At Peach Door Counselling, we use a holistic, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed perspective.

Couples Therapy treats the relationship as the couple - we are an unbiased third party who strives to see the partnership at the centre. Relationship therapy begins with an intake session in which both partners are able to freely describe their felt sense of the challenges in the relationship. From there, we use Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT) and elements of attachment theory to support clear and healthy communication, deeper connection, more emotional intimacy, the rebuilding of trust, and the development of a stronger bond.

Rest assured, our couples therapists are 2SLGBTQ+ affirming and believe that love is love!

We help you move from “ships passing in the night” into a loving and strong team!