Couples Counselling in Victoria, BC:
Building Stronger, Healthier Relationships
What is Couples and Relationship Counselling?
Couples or Relationship Counselling is a type of therapy designed to help partners strengthen their relationship, improve communications, and work through challenges together.
This may include healing from past trauma, childhood experiences, parenting, grief and loss, and managing different relationship choices, partner(s), lifestyles and more.
Couples counselling may involve:
Open communication: Couples counselling provides a safe space for both partners to talk openly and honestly. A trained therapist helps guide conversations to help ensure everyone feels heard.
Understanding patterns: Many relationships face repeated conflicts or misunderstandings. Couples counselling helps partners identify these patterns and understand what’s behind them.
Building skills together: From conflict resolution to effective communication, couples counselling teaches practical skills that help partners work through issues more constructively.
Strengthening connection: Therapy isn’t only for relationships in crisis. It’s also a chance to reconnect, build trust, and find emotional closeness.
Personal and shared growth: Couples counselling encourages both partners to explore their own needs while working toward shared goals.
Whether you’re facing a rough patch or simply want to strengthen your bond, couples counselling offers tools and support to help you build healthier, happier relationships.
We currently offer couples and relationship counselling at our Oak Bay Psychology location.
Get Started: Book a Counselling Session Today
Are you looking to strengthen your partnerships and relationships?
Flori Ens, BSN, MC, RCC, is a skilled couples and relationship counsellor at our Oak Bay Psychology office. She is here to help you and your partner(s) reconnect, communicate better, and face challenges better.
Flori aims to provide a safe, supportive space that helps people with:
conflict and major life changes
intimacy and deepening connections
trust and betrayal
grief and loss
parenting (including children, teens, young adults, adult children and aging parents)
financial challenges
Flori has an extensive background as a Registered Nurse, and she is experienced at tailoring her approach to the needs of each client. This helps meet your unique goals as partners, ensuring each person feels valued and heard.
She has also completed training in the Gottman Method and Emotion Focused Therapy. With her guidance, you can work on building trust and skills, understanding each other better, and creating a stronger relationship.
Book a Couples Counselling session with Flori at Oak Bay Psychology.
The Benefits of Couples and Relationship Counselling
Couples and relationship counselling offers many benefits for mental and emotional well-being and growth.
Here’s how it can help:
Builds Trust: Through honest conversations, counselling helps rebuild trust and create a safe, supportive foundation. This is helpful for people at any age whether they are just starting in partnership together or have been together for decades.
Reduces Conflict: Learn new ways to handle disagreements calmly, making conflicts less stressful and more productive.
Increases Relationship Satisfaction: With better communication and connection, all partners can feel more fulfilled.
Enhances Problem-Solving: Couples and relationship counselling offers tools to tackle issues together, creating a stronger partnership.
What to Expect and How to Book
Why can booking a couples counselling session be a helpful step toward a stronger relationship?
Here are some of the features of couples counselling as well as how to get started:
Coping Strategies and Emotional Regulation: One of the biggest benefits of counselling is seeing clients reframe negative thoughts, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and regulate emotions.
Support for Your Goals: Whether you’re working on communication, rebuilding trust or wanting to reconnect, couples counselling provides tools and guidance tailored to your needs.
Safe, Judgment-Free Space: Our experienced therapists create a comfortable environment where all partners feel heard and valued.
Trauma-Informed: In cases of trauma, our clinical counsellors may use trauma-focused techniques to process painful experiences in a safe environment. Counselling provides a space to explore feelings, identify patterns, and create strategies for managing anxiety, depression, or trauma.
How to book a session:
1. Contact our office by phone (250-507-8363) or email, and we will help you find a time that works for you and your partner(s).2. Click here to learn more about our couples therapist and book online.
Over time, counselling can improve emotional well-being, enhance resilience, and foster personal growth.
Start building connection and understanding today.