Couples Counselling
Each session is personal to you and your goals as a couple. Here are some of the topics that may be discussed during your session based on your goals:
Getting to Know You: We begin by understanding your relationship’s background, exploring your worries and conflicts, and identifying your strengths. What do you do well together? Recognizing these strengths is crucial in building a positive foundation for your counseling journey.
Conflict Resolution: Utilizing the Gottman Method, we delve into what conflict looks like in your relationship. We explore each partner’s conflict style and how past traumas and personal worries may affect your interactions. Understanding how your bodies process trauma, such as the flight or fight response, is vital in managing conflicts constructively.
Understanding Each Other: We help you become aware of each other’s conflict styles, traumas, and personal worries. We also address different parenting styles that may impact your relationship dynamics, fostering a deeper understanding and empathy between you and your partner.
Love Languages: Discover how you and your partner display and want to receive love. Understanding each other’s love languages enhances emotional connection and ensures that both partners feel valued and loved.
Self-Care: We emphasize the importance of self-care for mind, body, and soul. This includes focusing on sleep, nutrition, exercise, fresh air, and hobbies—both individually and together. Self-care nurtures personal well-being, which in turn strengthens your relationship.
Quality Time: We highlight the significance of spending quality time together, especially before and after having a child. Maintaining a strong connection during these transitions is key to sustaining a healthy, fulfilling relationship.
Our goal is to provide you with the tools and insights necessary to navigate challenges, celebrate strengths, and build a resilient and loving partnership.
Practical Exercises: Throughout the sessions, you’ll practice what you’ve discussed, applying new skills and strategies to real-life situations. This hands-on approach helps solidify your learning and encourages positive change in your relationship.
Getting to Know You: We begin by understanding your relationship’s background, exploring your worries and conflicts, and identifying your strengths. What do you do well together? Recognizing these strengths is crucial in building a positive foundation for your counseling journey.
Conflict Resolution: Utilizing the Gottman Method, we delve into what conflict looks like in your relationship. We explore each partner’s conflict style and how past traumas and personal worries may affect your interactions. Understanding how your bodies process trauma, such as the flight or fight response, is vital in managing conflicts constructively.
Understanding Each Other: We help you become aware of each other’s conflict styles, traumas, and personal worries. We also address different parenting styles that may impact your relationship dynamics, fostering a deeper understanding and empathy between you and your partner.
Love Languages: Discover how you and your partner display and want to receive love. Understanding each other’s love languages enhances emotional connection and ensures that both partners feel valued and loved.
Self-Care: We emphasize the importance of self-care for mind, body, and soul. This includes focusing on sleep, nutrition, exercise, fresh air, and hobbies—both individually and together. Self-care nurtures personal well-being, which in turn strengthens your relationship.
Quality Time: We highlight the significance of spending quality time together, especially before and after having a child. Maintaining a strong connection during these transitions is key to sustaining a healthy, fulfilling relationship.
Our goal is to provide you with the tools and insights necessary to navigate challenges, celebrate strengths, and build a resilient and loving partnership.
Practical Exercises: Throughout the sessions, you’ll practice what you’ve discussed, applying new skills and strategies to real-life situations. This hands-on approach helps solidify your learning and encourages positive change in your relationship.
Common reasons people seek couples counselling
- Proactively enhancing communication skills
- Transitioning from a roommate dynamic to rekindling their romantic relationship
- Addressing acute issues such as infidelity or different parenting styles
OUR LICENSED COUNSELLORS
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Sara Hashmi
BSW, RSW, Registered Social Worker, Psychotherapist Accepting new patients Sara is a Registered Social Worker, who is passionate about working with women, through all the beautiful, painful and chaotic seasons of life. She has experience working with children, youth, adults, couples and families. She recognizes every human comes with a variety of experiences in life, and takes a strengths based and trauma informed approach to counselling. She is passionate towards helping clients to strengthen their self care, and learn to nurture, soothe and care for their body, mind and soul. She takes a warm, gentle and authentic approach in helping clients to overcome challenges and strengthen coping strategies through difficult transitions, including pregnancy, birth, postpartum and through the fertility journey. She takes an eclectic approach to counselling, incorporating models of therapy including Mindfulness- based techniques, Family Systems, Narrative and Relational approaches. She has experience supporting clients through perinatal grief and loss, relationship challenges, perinatal depression and anxiety, chronic health challenges and family traumas. Sara is a mother of a little boy, and continues to be inspired by her own healing journey, to help women find their own power within. Her hope is to support you on your healing journey, and help you to shine the light within yourself. Additional Certifications:
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Kat Bayang, MA, MACP:
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) Accepting new patients Hello! I’m Kat, a parent of three and a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) offering individual and couples counselling at Yoga Mamas. With over a decade of experience in perinatal healthcare and peer support, my practice is deeply informed by principles of anti-oppression, inclusivity, and cultural safety. I’m committed to providing compassionate and comprehensive care tailored to each individual’s unique journey. I house my practice in Filipinx Liberation Psychology and Relational Cultural Theory. This dual approach guides me to focus on relational dynamics and cultural attunement in therapy, while finding grounding in an eclectic practice that draws on various therapeutic techniques like Narrative Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to address your needs. My background in midwifery also plays a significant role in my approach. The skills I developed through midwifery—such as harnessing agency and autonomy, offering emotional support and validation, being attuned to both physical and emotional needs, providing crisis care, engaging community and supporting people through significant life transitions—enhance my ability to provide thoughtful care through your own perinatal journey. Topics close to my heart include: parental identity, relational dynamics and disconnection, obstetric violence, birth trauma, racism and discrimination, grief and loss, blending families, sex and pleasure, and raising interracial children. My hope is to journey with you as you establish clarity and insight, reconnect with your embodied wisdom and your restore trust in your innate ability to parent yourself, your children and/or your wider community. Your story is important, and I am eager to understand where you are, the challenges you face, and the future you envision. It would be an honour to support you on this journey. |
