• Couples Counselling in Belfast

     

    with Etain O'Kane, NCPS Accredited

  • What is the Gottman Method?

    Introduction

     

    For nearly five decades Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman have conducted research on all facets of relationships and parenting. The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to

    • disarm conflictual verbal communication
    • increase intimacy, respect, and affection
    • remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy, and
    • create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding.

    How Gottman Couples Counselling It Works

     

    Interventions are designed to help you strengthen your relationship in three primary areas: friendship, conflict management, and creating shared meaning.

     

    You will learn how to replace negative conflict patterns with positive interactions and repair past hurts. Over time these interventions will increase closeness and intimacy, improve your sense of friendship, respect and emotional connection, and help you identify shared goals to make positive changes together.

    Assessment

     

    The Gottman Method includes a thorough assessment of your relationship, and integrates research-based interventions based on the Sound Relationship House Theory. You will attend an initial 90 minute consultation session together, and come in separately for 45 minutes to 1 hour for individual interviews. This allows me to get a clear sense of who you are, both together and as individuals.

     

    You are also invited to complete in depth, confidential questionnaires about your relationship. Created by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, Affective Software, Inc., and The Gottman Institute, this online assessment tool automatically scores your relationship’s strengths and challenges and provides specific recommendations for intervention.

     

    I will use this to give you detailed feedback on your relationship and clarify the areas you will work on in therapy.

    Fees

    • Initial Telephone Call (25mins) FREE
    • Online Questionnaires (payable to Gottman Connect) $39
    • Couples Consultation Session (90mins) £120
    • Individual & Standard Couples Session (1hr) £100

     

    Please contact me below for more information.

  • INFO

    Welcome

    I have been in private practice as a counsellor in Belfast, Northern Ireland for a decade, offering emotional support and practical skills to help people overcome personal diliemmas, make decisions, become unstuck, manage anxiety and depression, and resolve relationship issues.

     

    I offer face to face couples counselling in Belfast from my offices on University Street, in the Queens Quarter of Belfast.

     

    If you are looking for timely, confidential, and evidence-based couples counselling to help improve your relationship, please get in touch.

    Qualifications

    • Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling & Therapeutic Communication (University of Ulster)
    • BA Psychology (McGill University)
    • Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Level Three
    • Accredited Member of the National Psychotherapy and Counselling Society

    Experience

    I have devoted my entire career to promoting positive health and wellbeing through peer-support groups, policy & research, training & workshops, and delivering a range of community based projects across Northern Ireland. I am an Accredited Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and am listed on the Professional Standards Authority Accredited Register for Counsellors.

    Specialising in...

    • Conflict
    • Communication Skills
    • Anxiety, Depression & Stress
    • Complex Families
    • Family Estrangement

    Additional Information

    • Sessions take place in-person in my offices in Belfast on Mondays & Tuesdays
    • LGBTQI+ inclusive
    • All relationship styles welcome
  • Lets Get Started...

    Therapy Belfast, 94 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1HE
    Mondays and Tuesdays 9:30-5:30
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