Couples In Step Is Permanently Closed Due to Illness
Glad you’re here. A healthier and happier relationship is possible. We work only with couples, giving us depth of experience and a laser focus.
- We believe close relationships are vital to human health.
- Most relationships are salvageable – we prove that almost daily.
- We are committed to confidentiality, never taking sides, and respecting each partner in the relationship.
- As EFCT (Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy) therapists we have been trained in a model of couples therapy supported by more than 25 years of success and research.
We work online and in person. Couples are reporting, sometimes to their surprise, that online therapy sessions are effective. When you contact us you’ll receive information about what’s available.
Couples Online/In Person Therapy Helps. What Is Your Issue?
Couples Counselling
The first treatment goal is restoring the marriage or couple friendship in order to decrease the loneliness each of you feels in the relationship. Years of distance and isolation may make trust a challenge.
Sex Therapy
Sexuality is a healthy, positive & rewarding part of couple life. But couples don’t look for a sex therapist when all is going well. We discuss your sexual concerns in a safe and comfortable environment.
Infidelity & Affairs
Despite the prevalence of infidelity most people assume their partner will be faithful. So the discovery of infidelity is a severe, unexpected breach of commitment and trust.
Cross Cultural Couples
What attracted you to your partner? Was it the mystery of a different faith, culture, or nation? Did you enjoy exploring your cultural similarities, and the intriguing differences in your backgrounds?
EMDR-Couples & Trauma
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing-EMDR-is a trauma therapy. We occasionally use this as a couple intervention, when infidelity, or some other kind of trauma is part of your story.
Discernment Counselling
Are you considering divorce or separation but unsure that’s the right path? Discernment Counselling offers the opportunity to pause, take a breath, & consider the long term consequences.
From 3 Locations (online and/or in person)
Couples Therapy is an Investment
You want effective, cost efficient counselling. There’s been an explosion of research in the last twenty years into adult love relationships. We know what happens in the brain when love goes well and when it goes wrong. Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, or EFT, is based on this research.
Couples Therapy: Intensive Counselling & Couples Retreats
3-Day Intensive? Retreat? Which is Best For Us?
3-Day Intensive Couples Counselling
Typically very distressed couples come to a 3-Day Couples Counselling Intensive. The 3-Day Intensive is not a group program. You, your partner, and the Couples In Step therapist, Irene Oudyk-Suk, are the only ones present. The 3-Day Intensive takes place either on line or in person in Toronto or Kingston.
The online 3-Day Intensive takes place over 3 consecutive days, usually a Sunday – Tuesday. Because the 3-Day Intensive is offered online couples from all over Ontario are able to access this service.
The in person 3-Day Intensive takes place in Toronto beginning mid Friday afternoon and ending mid Sunday afternoon.
Couples In Step Retreats
Couples In Step offers online and in-person retreats. There are two options: an emotional connection focus (Hold Me Tight®), and a touch and physical connection focus.
Some couples come to a retreat wanting to deepen their relationship. Some want to rediscover the connection they once had. For some, a couples retreat is an alternative to couples therapy. You do not need to speak in the group if you do not wish to.
Between 7-14 couples attend a retreat. Couples are sometimes anxious about the group nature of a retreat. There is ample private couple time and you are not required to be an active participant during the larger group times. The larger group is for the facilitator, Irene Oudyk-Suk, to provide instruction you then apply to your relationship in the private couple time.
Hold Me Tight® is a registered trademark to Sue Johnson.
Discernment Counselling
Are you considering divorce or separation but unsure that’s the right path for you? That’s a hard place to be! Here’s where Discernment Counselling can help.
Discernment Counselling offers the opportunity to pause, take a breath, and carefully consider the long term consequences of divorce/separation.