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Research shows that Couples Therapy positively impacts 70% of those receiving treatment. And for many couples, seeking professional help can be the difference between making the long haul or becoming a divorce statistic. Within the modern context, couples therapy is initiated to create and maintain a healthy marriage rather than simply being a “last resort”. Couples therapy can improve communication within your marriage, allow for ongoing mediation and helps to guide your relationship to cultivate genuine Christ-centred love.

Marriage counselling isn’t meant to be a quick fix and won’t be beneficial if both parties aren’t committed to doing the work. Marriage counselling helps to create openness in dialogue between spouses and allow for a deeper level of connection through the guidance of the Counsellor.  During our time together we will collaboratively plan strategies that will introduce active and compassionate listening into your relationship and assist in cultivating deep understanding. 

It is also important to understand that the focus of marriage counselling is not to address or work through you or your partner’s childhood trauma and impactful life events. For such support individual counselling is recommended. 

Family counselling is a therapeutic method to develop and maintain healthy and functional family relationships. Family counselling can help define roles, improve communication, and assist in developing healthy boundaries within family members. Often, a primary goal for engaging in family counselling is to address problems within the family and identify each members contribution to the family dynamics. Understanding the emotional, psychological, or behavioural patterns in your family will help to give direction as to what areas can be explored and improved to create healthy, loving family interactions.

Trauma Counselling provides people with an opportunity to discuss their experiences within an empathetic supportive setting.

At Divine Empowerment we do not promote "re-living" the traumatic experience or discussing the event in detail if our clients do not feel comfortable doing so.

We are a trauma-informed practice and are committed to making sure that your preferences and comfort are of primary importance.  Trauma Counselling can help guide you through lingering and intrusive thoughts, negative thought loops, triggers, and anxiety.

Grief is a natural response to loss. Though it’s often thought of in relation to death, it can occur no matter what type of loss you experience. It might well be the loss of a loved one. But it could also be the loss of a relationship, job or something else entirely.

The more significant the loss, the more intense your grief is likely to be. It can affect every part of your life and have a big impact on your mental health.

Grief and loss counselling helps you to work through the primary and secondary losses and also identify if you're experiencing cumulative grief.

For a variety of reasons we don't always have a safe person in our life who we can turn to when we need it most.

Unlike mainstream counselling, Christian counselling integrates faith into therapeutic practices. With Christian counselling, the Bible, faith and prayer are used to compliment therapeutic modalities and facilitate deep spiritual closure. 

Counselling provides you with a non-judgmental, safe and confidential space to talk through issues and concerns that can be affecting your quality of life, relationships and well-being. Counselling can provide professional assistance with specific areas of concern in your life, in a way that no other relationship can facilitate.