Relationship Therapists Who Work as a Couple, With Couples
Couple for Couple’s Therapy offers a unique and powerful approach: two experienced, qualified therapists—working together with you as a couple. This model provides balanced support for both partners, live modelling of respectful communication, and a deeper, more nuanced understanding of your relationship dynamics.
With two trained professionals holding the space, you gain greater therapeutic depth, insight, containment, and perspective—significantly more than traditional couples counselling with a single therapist. This collaborative approach builds a strong, supportive alliance and creates the optimal conditions for meaningful, lasting change.
If you’re committed to strengthening your relationship, rebuilding trust, or deepening connection, this method offers an exceptional level of care and expertise to help you get there.
We’re Jani and Don—a couple of experienced and well-qualified therapists passionate about helping individuals and couples create healthy, respectful, and resilient relationships. We work together, offering couples counselling and marriage therapy using the Gottman Method—one of the most trusted and evidence-based approaches to relationship therapy available today.
We know what it’s like to navigate relationship challenges—because we’ve been there too. Like many couples, we came together with personal histories, life experience, and hope. Neither of us thought we’d ever marry again… but life had other plans. After developing a deep and abiding connection we married eighteen years ago. The tools and principles we now teach were a game changer in building our own healthy relationship.
“We worked out a lot for ourselves through lived experience. But what truly deepened our connection was discovering and applying Gottman Therapy.”
The Gottman Method isn’t just theory—it’s backed by almost 50 years of clinical research into what makes love last and relationships succeed. It offers real, practical skills that empower couples to build trust, enhance communication, and strengthen emotional intimacy. We’ve seen first hand how effective these tools can be—and we’re committed to helping you apply them in ways that work for your unique relationship.
We support all types of couples: married, de facto, dating, LGBTQIA+, multicultural, neurodiverse, and everything in between. Whether or not you are married, we work with all kinds of relationships. You just need a willingness to show up—and we’re here to walk beside you as you do.
Two Therapists, One Shared Goal: Helping You Reconnect
Are you struggling to reconnect and wondering if the spark can return?
Has a recent discovery or rupture left you uncertain about what comes next?
Is one of you leaning out while the other wants to lean in?
These moments can be overwhelming—but you’re not alone.
We’ve supported many couples through turning points like these, and we’ve seen deep healing and renewed connection emerge through the process.
Whether you're working to stay together, rebuild after betrayal, or separate with respect, we offer structured, compassionate therapy tailored to your needs. We focus on restoring emotional safety, improving communication, and strengthening the bond you share.
Most couples we work with do stay together—and many are surprised to find they can reignite the spark they thought was gone. We offer hope, structure, and real strategies to help you move forward. And when parting ways is the healthiest path, we guide you to do so with mutual respect and clarity—especially when children or co-parenting are involved.
GOTTMAN THERAPY
Our training is in Gottman Method, designed and overseen by Drs John Gottman and Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman.
This amazing highly qualified couple combine many years of experience with all of the knowledge and wisdom of the Gottman Institute’s other experts. Collaboratively the Gottman Institute has grown and blossomed into an outstanding source of emotional and relational advice and support. We are so proud to be associated and trained by them.
Gottman Therapy informs us that there are clear distinctions between the Masters of Relationships and the Disasters of Relationships. The Masters make marriage work. The Disasters stay together living miserably or they leave and get divorced.
Therefore we undertook qualifications through the Gottman Institute. We then added a wealth of experience with couples to support you both. We want to encourage and coach you to become Masters of Relationships. We have undertaken specific face to face training in many Gottman techniques including Treating Affairs and Trauma. We know a lot about conflict and miscommunication.
The Gottman’s extensive Research of almost 50 years has found that couples wait till there is a crisis or they are about to separate before seeking help. While it’s best to seek professional help and support as early as possible, we can work with you when you are considering whether or not to stay together. The research says help is generally sought 6 years too late.
We will offer you the understanding, awareness and skills needed to resolve relationship challenges. Your time with us will support lots of improvements in your connection and intimacy.
We work with passion and professionalism to encourage respectful and purposeful discussions. We offer you the ability to want to stay together even when you are thinking of separating. Trust building and excellent communication will happen when using our approaches. Make your partner your best friend and so very much more.
Behind conflict and disconnection there are unmet needs. We will coach you to identify these needs. We show you the ways to discuss what you want and need from each other and how to learn to be more supportive.
We will help you to see that the reasons conflicts get out of hand is because you can both be triggered by actions. We help you negotiate changes to the way you interact to lessen the triggers and soften your reactions. We teach you both how to interact and understand one another in ways that can foster a healthy and sound relationship.
The best time to come to counselling as a couple is NOW.
With us you will get clear messages and doable skills that can guide you to change your relationship. We are empowering and supportive and want you to get the best outcome from your investment in counselling.
We cater for all genders and all kinds of relationships. We are non judgemental and validate difference and understanding about all kinds of unions.
We cater for couples:
moving in together
getting married
experiencing minor difficulties
needing urgent help to work through a crisis
uncovering secrets
dealing with an affair
when trust is lost
bored and disconnected
emotional differences
sexually unfulfilled
shifts in sexuality
at risk of separation
post separation
parenting
and lots of other situations that need support and guidance.
We will support you as long as you need.
We have had outstanding results from couples who believed their relationship had no future.
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