Couples Therapy
Initial Assessment Session:
Cost: $350 | 100 Min
Subsequent Sessions:
Cost: $220 per session | 60 Min
or
$320 per session | 90 Min
Finding the right therapist for you is important. Contact me for a FREE initial 20 minute telephone consultation. This will give us a sense of each other. You don't need to be with your partner during this conversation, just as long as I get to speak to both partners before booking a session
Therapy sessions are held in-person in Thornbury, Melbourne. I can also provide both online and telephone sessions if that is what you need. All online sessions are held through Zoom and the zoom link will be sent to you on the morning of your booked session.
Cost: $350 | 100 Min
Subsequent Sessions:
Cost: $220 per session | 60 Min
or
$320 per session | 90 Min
Finding the right therapist for you is important. Contact me for a FREE initial 20 minute telephone consultation. This will give us a sense of each other. You don't need to be with your partner during this conversation, just as long as I get to speak to both partners before booking a session
Therapy sessions are held in-person in Thornbury, Melbourne. I can also provide both online and telephone sessions if that is what you need. All online sessions are held through Zoom and the zoom link will be sent to you on the morning of your booked session.
Healing Together
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Our intimate relationship can act as the greatest mirror for our hidden insecurities, emotional wounding, and deepest longings. Many couples that I work with are outwardly capable, yet internally disorientated or exhausted. They are often living out dynamics that are stuck in repetitive and destructive patterns of relating. They usually have the same fight but they use different words. I support couples unpack these dynamics, for greater insight and clarity instead of feeling like they are drowning in the chaos and overwhelm.
Couples who choose to work with me have a genuine desire to understand what is happening between them, instead of just wanting to learn how to better manage ‘communication and conflict’. With this kind of orientation, couples begin to understand:
I help couples learn how to slow down and regulate their emotions. Couples walk away from sessions feeling, contained and held, not ‘fixed’. They understand that therapy is a process that requires commitment, honesty, and tolerance for discomfort. It takes courage to sit in discomfort and own personal limitations completely. But, in the true spirit for connection and love, it’s truly worth it. So let’s begin the work….. My therapeutic approach to couples therapy is informed by two of the greatest couple’s therapists; Sue Johnson, who developed Emotional Focussed Therapy (EFT) for Couple’s and Ether Perel. I have completed all necessary training in Emotional Focussed Couple's Therapy with Jenny Fitzgerald, and I have a particular interest in helping couples navigate the tumultuous aftermath of an infidelity! Emotional Focussed Therapy is based on attachment theory and uses attachment and connection to create therapeutic transformation. EFT attempts to find new solutions to old problems and relationship distress is seen as a coping strategy. The approach explores stuck interactional patterns, emotional unavailability and insecure attachment, to reveal how each person protects themselves in the relationship. The therapist supports each person to move beyond their secondary emotions of anger, frustration, helplessness and despair, towards their primary emotions such as sadness, disappointment, fear and longing, where unmet attachment needs live. It requires each person to be with the vulnerability of the other. Esther Perel’s amazing wisdom on intimacy, desire, sex, eros and infidelity speaks to the complexity of our capacity to love and be loved. Her work empathically enables people to take responsibility for the hurt caused to the other as well as each person’s exiled desires. |
“Eleni has been wonderful to work with, she completed changed myself and my partners relationship and our mindset towards each other. She has a calming presence and her ability to pick up certain issues is amazing. I would highly recommend Eleni for anyone looking to repair their relationship“.
LOUISE “Excellent rapport established immediately from us………Eleni promotes a very comfortable and engaging style that in turn creates a great space to be able to talk freely without one inch of any judgement being shown. Attentive and very enagaged counsellor with an excellent results driven style“. SALLY The ProcessWe begin the therapeutic relationship with an initial FREE 20 minute telephone consultation prior to booking any session. Finding the right therapist is a process and this initial contact will give us a sense of each other. It is important that I speak with each person, either separately or together, and that each individual initiates the contact. If you both decide to give it a go, you will attend the initial and subsequent sessions together. Individual sessions during the process are an option if each person requests it and/or I feel it would be beneficial to the relationship repair. If ongoing individual sessions are required for either partner, then I will encourage each person to seek individual therapy with another therapist. Cancellation Policy
Clients will be charged a 100% cancellation fee made less than 24 hours. |
