Mindful Care-giving: Couples Counselling & Family Therapy

At Kayda Health, several of our clinicians offer Couples Counselling and Family Therapy to support either romantic partners and/or family members in navigating communication challenges, stressors that impact relationships, and caregiving dynamics. We offer evidence-based therapy online & in-person in Coquitlam (clinician dependent) to help balance the needs and expectations in a relationship, repair breaches in trust, build communication & intimacy, and create a healthy vision of the relationship that works for each person involved.

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Issues We Work With (Communication, Conflict, Stress)

There are many issues which can challenge the care we experience & give in familial & romantic relationships, such as:

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• Styles of Attachment, Conflict, and/or Communication 

• Stressors impacting nervous system regulation & emotional fatigue

• Underlying physical & mental health concerns, including substance use, neurodivergence, personality disorders, serious or chronic pain/ illness

• Relational Breaches & Dynamics

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Who benefits most from these services?

​Each person in the relationship as well as the relationship overall will benefit. To clarify; when one person in a relationship is struggling in some manner, it  impacts the entire system - everyone hurts together. Some kinds of relationships therapy can help and the types of issues are: 

• Couples experiencing conflict or communication breakdowns.

• Partners navigating parenting stress, caregiving, or life transitions.

• Families navigating mental, emotional, environmental, or physical issues. Families adjusting to separation, blended family dynamics, or role changes. 

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How does Couples Therapy or Family Therapy work?

To improve a relationship, it's crucial to understand that care-giving is an act of love AND a major risk factor to the relationship and to a care-giver's own wellbeing. Therefore, the idea of being mindful in the relationships we are in - of the needs and wants of each person involved, equity, overall health and wellbeing, and alignment to what matters most -- becomes a critical focus in therapy. Thus we land in a place of working on Mindful Care-giving when working with couples and families; tuning into what each person needs and can hold space for and working on a vision that is healthy for everyone. We additionally focus on attunement to self and other, attachment-building, and repair/ atonement where needed.

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In close relationships, it can be surprisingly difficult to separate what we can ask of another person from what is actually ours to decide. Boundaries help clarify what we will and won’t do, take responsibility for or participate in, while still leaving room for the other person to make their own choices. Explore your own boundary patterns with our 3-minute quiz →

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Which counsellors offer Couples Counselling?

• General Couples Counselling - RCCs Vanessa, Crina, Krupa, Nafiseh

• Collaborative Separation & Divorce + General Couple's Counselling - RCC Ashely

• Infidelity Repair & General Couple's Counselling - RCC Nafiseh​

• Sex & Kink Positive Monogamous & Ethically Non-Monogamous Couples Counselling (Low-Cost)- Intern Jessica ($75/session)

 

Which counsellors offer Family Therapy?​

• ​Families of neurodivergent or struggling children & youth (aged 5-18) - RCC Nafiseh

• Teens/ families of teens facing issues - RCCs Nafiseh, Vanessa, Krupa & Crina

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Book a free consult with a therapist who understands caregiving & relational issues here.