Discover Your Path to Wholeness and Healing.
Discovering Growth In Your Relationship
At times life can block and weaken our relationship with the one we care the most about in our lives. Psychotherapy and Counselling offer a safe space for both partners to explore your thoughts and emotions, helping you to gain clarity and insight into your relationship. Through open conversations, you can better understand yourself, your partner, and your experiences, and move toward your relationship goals. This process can enhance your emotional well-being, improve your relationship, and increase your relationship's resilience. Whether you're facing specific relationship challenge or seeking more intimacy growth, psychotherapy and counselling can support you both in this journey.
Couple or Partners Psychotherapy & Counselling
In relationship therapy, the relationship itself is the client. At times the relationship needs support for a variety of reasons including improving processing life’s demands while maintaining or improving a secure, enriching connection. Together you both decide the goal and we work collaborative, in secure space to safely navigate items such as conflict, rebuild trust and deepen emotional intimacy using evidence-based approaches tailored to you.
Rose Pinghera
Frequently Asked Questions
Therapy is tailored to your unique situation and goals.
It is important to note that the relationship itself is the client and both partners are treated equally by the therapist. Both partners need to consent if the therapy records or any information from the sessions are to be shared to anyone.
WE integrate two of the most thoroughly researched frameworks in relationship wellness: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method. EFT helps you identify and shift repetitive, distressing communication patterns by focusing on underlying emotional needs. The Gottman Method provides practicial, structure tools to manage conflict, deepen your friendship and build shared meaning. Together, these frameworks offer a blanced blend of deep emotional processing and actionable daily tools.
Psychotherapy and counselling can not guarantee a specific outcome. It provides a structured space to explore the root causes of conflict. Using EFT, we look past the surface arguments to help you discover the "cycle" you get stuck in. By identifying these patterns, both partners can learn to recognize the cycel early and work together to defuse tension before it escalates.
Your privacy is strict and legally protected under Ontario's health privacy legislations. Everything shared without our sessions is kept completely confidential. In accordance to College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) standards and the national Canadian Certified Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association (CCPA) standards, there are exceptions to confidentiality. Below is a list of exceptions.
Before you review this list it is important to know that to maintain safety, neutrality and trust, we typically utilize a "no secrets" policy in couples therapy. If one partner shares information outside the joint sessions (by individual session, phone call, or email) that fundamentally impacts the relationship or the therapeutic process, we will work with that partner to bring that information into the shared space constructively.
While everything you share in your psychotherapy and counselling sessions are strictly confidential, provincial and federal laws require the therapist to break confidentiailty without your consent under the following narrow circumstances.
Confidentiality Limitations
While everything you share in your psychotherapy and counselling sessions are strictly confidential, provincial and federal laws require the therapist to break confidentiailty without your consent under the following narrow circumstances.
1- imminent risk of harm (duty to protect). If there are reasonable grounds to believe you are at imminent and clear risk of serious phsyical or pscyhological harm to yourself, or you are at significant risk of serious bodily harm to someone that is identifiable.
2- Child neglect or abuse. If there is reason to suspet that a child under 16 years of age (or up to 18 if under a child protection order) is experiencing or is at risk of experiencing abuse, neglect or harm.
3- Abuse by a Healthcare Professional. If you disclose information giving the therapist reasonable information to believe another regulated health professional in Ontario has sexually abused a client, and in unregulated provinces this is an ethical guideline under the Canadian Counsellor Psychotherapist Association (CCPA).
4- Subpoenas & Court Orders: If a law court subpoenas your clinical records or orders the therapist to testify in legal proceeding.
5- Long-Term Care or Elder Abuse: If you reside in a jurisdiction with mandatory reporting laws (such as Ontario's Fixing Long-Term Care Act, Manitoba's Protection for Persons in Care Act, and Newfoundland & Labrador's Adult Protection Act) and there is reasonable belief that a resident living in a long-term care facility or retirement home is experiencing neglect or abuse.Note on Out-of-Province Care: if you reside in a province where institutional adult abuse reporting is not explicitly mandated by local statute (such as Saskatchewan), I still reserve the ethical right to intervene or notify appropriate local emergency authorities under the Imminent Risk of Harm protocal if a vulnerable individual's life or safety is in immediate jeopardy.
6- Incapacitation / Medical Emergency. If you become critically ill, injured or otherwise incapacitated during a counselling/psychotherapy session, basic emergency contact information may be shared with emergency personnel or a substitute decision maker.
7- As a registered psychotherapist (qualifying), all the clincial records, regardless of where you live in Canada (Ontario or an unregulated province) may be randonly and confidentially reviewed by CRPO representative only for quality assurance purposes.
We begin with an initial joint assessment to explore your relationship goals and history. After this, we usually schedule brief individual sessions with each partner to gather individual histories and ensure safety. Next when we reconvene for joint sessions to establish a customized treatment plan.
There is a wide range of issues that we look at. Sometimes it is balancing life and making your relationship a priority, or wanting to revive the spark your relationship once had.
Communication & Conflict
Constant arguing: Falling into repetitive, circular fights without reaching a resolution.
Poor communication / emotional connection: Feeling misunderstood, unheard, or walking on eggshells around each other.
Silent Treatment: At times one partner have challenges and shuts downs or withdraws during difficult conversations.
Trust & Intimacy
Infidelity Recovery: Rebuilding trust after emotional or physical affairs.
Lack of Intimacy: Navigating a decline in emotional closeness, physical affection or sexual desire.
Jealousy & Insecurity: Managing deep-seated trust issues or control dynamics.
Life Transitions & Stress
Major Life Changes: Adjusting to marriage, birth of a child(ren), moving, career shifts, or retirement.
Parenting Differences: Disagreeing on discipline, parenting styles, or adjusting to empty nest.
External Stressors: Coping with financial strain, career pressure, or interference from in-laws or extended family.
Connection & Growth
Growing Apart: Feeling like roommates rather than romantic partners
Premarital Counselling: Proactively addressing future expectations before getting married.
Discernment Counselling: A review of your relationship.
Registered Psychotherapists and Registered Psychotherapists (Qualifying) is regulated by the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). This designation ensures adherence to the strict professional accountability, provincial standards and the legal authorization to perform the controlled act of psychotherapy in Ontario.
Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) is a national certification granted by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). This designation identifies practitioners who meet the rigorous national graduate level of education, clinical supervisions standards and ethical standards.
RP, RP (Qualifying) under supervision and CCC registered practitioners can both provide professional talk therapy to work with you to journey in helping your mental health, change life patterns, and manage difficult emotions.
RP, RP (Qualifying) under supervision and CCC registered practitioners CAN NOT GIVE A FORMAL DIAGNOSIS. DIAGNOSIS is restricted to physicans, psychologists, and psychiatrists.
RP, RP (Qualifying) under supervision and CCC registered practitioners CAN NOT PRESCRIBE MEDICATION. Only a psychiatrist, physican or a nurse practitioner can prescribe mental health medication.
RP, RP (Qualifying) under supervision and CCC registered practitioners CAN NOT PERFORM STANDARDIZED PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING. Only a psychiatrist or psychologist can perform standardized psychological testing.
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If you want to view healing and growth that encompasses the mind, body and spirit, it is our pleasure.
For clients who desire it, we can seamlessly weave faith, prayer, Scripture and Christian principles into our sessions.
We specialize in Christian faith, including Catholicism.
We welcome, respect, and support individuals from all walks of life, faiths and backgrounds.
Your unique journey and comfort level will always guide our focus.
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