Couple & Relationship Therapy
Empowering Couples: Navigate Relationship Challenges
At the heart of our work is a commitment to strengthening relationships by fostering resilience, connection, and healing. Our couples specialists draw on evidence-based approaches, including the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), to support meaningful and lasting change.
We understand that relationships naturally encounter challenges. With empathy and clinical expertise, we help couples navigate conflict, improve communication, and better understand one another’s emotional needs.
Through a collaborative process, couples are supported in addressing underlying patterns, rebuilding trust, and deepening their emotional bond. Our goal is not only to help you work through current difficulties, but to equip you with the tools to move forward with greater connection, resilience, and confidence in your relationship.
We begin with a comprehensive assessment of your relationship, including your unique concerns, communication patterns, and goals for therapy. This allows us to develop a targeted, individualized treatment plan tailored to your specific needs as a couple.
Our couples counselling services draw from evidence-based approaches, including the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), to support meaningful and lasting change. Depending on your situation, therapy may focus on improving communication, rebuilding trust after conflict or betrayal, navigating life transitions, or strengthening emotional connection.
By tailoring each session to your relationship dynamics, we ensure that therapy is practical, relevant, and effective—helping you move toward a healthier, more connected partnership.
Couples counselling helps partners improve communication, strengthen emotional connection, navigate conflict, and better understand one another’s needs and experiences. At WJW Counselling and Mediation, couples counselling supports partners in developing healthier relationship patterns, rebuilding trust, improving emotional safety, and strengthening their connection.
Couples often seek counselling for:
Therapy is tailored to the unique needs and goals of each couple.
Yes. WJW Counselling and Mediation provides in-person couples counselling in St. Albert for couples looking to improve communication, strengthen their relationship, and work through conflict in a supportive environment.
Yes. We support individuals and couples in Edmonton through both virtual and in-person counselling services. Many Edmonton-area couples access therapy for relationship stress, parenting challenges, emotional disconnection, and conflict resolution support.
Yes. WJW Counselling and Mediation also provides counselling support for individuals and couples connected to Peace River and surrounding rural communities through virtual services and select in-person availability.
Yes. Communication challenges are one of the most common reasons couples seek therapy. Counselling can help partners:
Our therapists may draw from evidence-based approaches such as:
Therapy approaches are individualized based on the couple’s goals and relationship dynamics.
Usually both partners attend together, but sometimes individual sessions may also be incorporated when clinically appropriate. Your therapist will discuss the structure of counselling during the intake process.
Yes. Many couples attend counselling following breaches of trust, emotional affairs, infidelity, or other relationship injuries. Therapy can help couples process emotions, rebuild trust, improve communication, and determine what healing and repair may look like moving forward.
This is very common. One partner often reaches out before the other feels fully comfortable participating. Counselling can still begin with an initial consultation or conversation about goals, concerns, and what to expect from the process.
No. Many couples attend therapy proactively to strengthen their relationship, improve communication, prepare for life transitions, or deepen emotional connection before problems become more significant.
The length of counselling depends on the goals, relationship history, and complexity of concerns involved. Some couples attend for short-term support around a specific issue, while others engage in longer-term therapy focused on deeper relationship patterns and emotional repair.
Yes. Virtual couples counselling is available throughout Alberta, allowing couples to access support from home, including those living outside of St. Albert, Edmonton, and Peace River.
Many extended health benefit plans cover counselling services provided by registered psychologists, registered social workers, or registered clinical counsellors. Coverage varies depending on your provider and plan. We recommend checking directly with your insurance company regarding eligibility and reimbursement.
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Gottman Therapyhelps couples break through barriers to achieve greater understanding, connection and intimacy.
Stabilizes negative interaction patterns and builds patterns of connection
Find solutions for your current problems by using the skills, resources and abilities you already have.
Take personal accountability to manage your reaction to certain situations
Focuses on your character strengths and behaviours to build a life of meaning and purpose.
Change unhelpful and problematic ways of thinking to change unwanted or unhealthy behaviours.
Focuses on the family as a unit and how generational, social, community and cultural factors influence the family members
Focuses on your existing strengths to reduce problems and accomplish goals
