Support when the relationship feels hard to hold
Relationship counselling can help when the same conflicts or patterns keep returning and it feels hard to find your way through together.
Communication Issues
When conversations quickly turn into misunderstanding, defensiveness, shutdown or conflict.
When the same arguments keep happening and neither person feels properly heard.
Conflict and Arguments
Trust and Infidelity
When secrecy, betrayal, repeated hurt or broken trust has changed the relationship.
Intimacy and Disconnection
When emotional closeness, affection, intimacy or friendship has started to feel distant.
Family Pressure
When parenting, blended family dynamics, neurodivergence or past trauma are placing pressure on the relationship.
FIFO and Time Apart
When work, distance, exhaustion, resentment or different routines make it harder to reconnect.
How counselling helps
Communicate
Understand
Clarify
Relationship counselling gives both people a structured space to slow the conversation down and understand what is happening between them.
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The focus is not on blaming one person, choosing sides, or deciding who is right. Instead, counselling can help couples recognise repeated patterns, communicate more clearly, repair trust where possible, and make thoughtful decisions about what needs to change.
Counsellors specialising in Couple and Relationship Counselling in Perth
Every practitioner at Discovery Family Therapy brings deep specialisation, not just a broad clinical background.
Family Counsellor
Best Suited For:
Neurodivergent Families | Trauma | Divorce & Separation | Children and Teens.
Senior Counsellor
Best Suited For:
Relationships | Grief & Loss | Later Life | Anxiety & Depression
What happens in relationship counselling?
Relationship counselling gives both people an emotionally safe space to share how they feel and experience the relationship, without the conversation becoming another argument.
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Your counsellor will help slow things down, understand what has been happening between you, and identify goals for the work ahead. These goals might focus on communication, trust, parenting pressure, FIFO strain, intimacy, separation decisions, co-parenting, or finding a clearer way through change.
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From there, your counsellor can help you define steps to achieve those goals in a way that feels realistic and respectful for both people.
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At times, the couple counselling space is not the best first step. If unresolved trauma, strong emotional reactions, harmful behaviours, addiction, grief, or past experiences are making joint sessions too difficult or unsafe, your counsellor can recommend beginning individual counselling first. This gives each person space to process what is sitting underneath the conflict, build safer ways of responding, and return to relationship counselling when the timing is more appropriate.
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Our therapists can support this by helping you understand which pathway fits best: couple sessions, individual counselling, family-focused support, or a combination of these.
Frequently asked questions
Our team includes practitioners from different professional backgrounds. Each practitioner works within their own qualifications, professional memberships, registrations, and scope of practice.