Couples Therapy
A supportive space for couples to strengthen communication, explore relational patterns, and cultivate deeper connection and understanding.
Couples Therapy
Relationships can hold immense love, meaning, challenge, and complexity. Couples therapy offers a supportive and non-judgmental space to slow down together. To better understand one another, explore relational patterns, and reconnect in ways that feel more authentic, compassionate, and alive.
Drawing from an emotion-focused approach, I work collaboratively with couples to explore both the visible and underlying dynamics shaping the relationship. Often, conflict, distance, or recurring tension are not signs of failure, but expressions of unmet needs, protective strategies, attachment wounds, or ways each person has learned to navigate closeness and vulnerability.
Couples therapy creates space for both partners to feel heard, respected, and understood while supporting deeper awareness of the relational patterns that may be contributing to disconnection or reactivity.
Our work together may include:
Helping each partner better understand the other’s experience, needs, longings, and ways of communicating
Identifying recurring relational dynamics and unconscious patterns that contribute to conflict or distance
Developing greater emotional awareness, expression, and capacity for repair
Exploring nervous system responses and protective strategies that emerge within conflict or intimacy
Cultivating new ways of relating that foster trust, safety, connection, and shared meaning
Supporting individuality and personal growth alongside the shared journey of the relationship
Navigating transitions such as parenting, grief, identity shifts, or changing relationship needs
I aim to offer a space where the relationship itself can be listened to with curiosity and care. Rather than pathologising relational challenges, therapy becomes an opportunity for deeper understanding, healing, and transformation.
Through this collaborative process, couples can begin to move beyond cycles of blame or defensiveness and toward greater resilience, emotional honesty, and connection.
Sessions are available online and in person.
Lizzie (GradDip Psych, M Couns) is a psychotherapist and counsellor offering holistic therapy for couples and individuals seeking deeper understanding, more meaningful connection, and lasting change within their relationship. She works collaboratively with couples navigating communication challenges, conflict, life transitions, intimacy concerns, grief, and patterns of disconnection, supporting greater awareness, emotional resilience, and authentic ways of relating.
At the heart of her work is the understanding that you are the expert of your own lived experience. She offers a non-hierarchical and attuned therapeutic relationship that honours your pace, autonomy, and inner wisdom.
Lizzie is accredited with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) and is committed to ethical practice and ongoing professional development.
Frequently asked questions
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I work with individuals and couples 18 years and older who are seeking support in understanding, acknowledging or transforming trauma, life transitions, relationship issues, grief, anxiety, or seeking holistic therapy.
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Couples often seek therapy when they are navigating:
• Communication Breakdowns: Feeling unheard, misunderstood, or stuck in repetitive arguments.
• Life Transitions: Adjusting to parenthood, career changes, relocation, or other significant life events that impact the relationship.
• Grief and Loss: Processing shared losses, whether it’s the death of a loved one, a miscarriage, or the loss of a shared dream.
• Intimacy Challenges: Desiring to rekindle emotional or physical closeness.
• Conflict or Disconnection: Feeling distant, resentful, or struggling to resolve ongoing disagreements.
• Pre-Marital Support: Building a strong foundation for a lasting partnership.
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Entering the Healing Ground: Grief Ritual Leadership Training - Francis Weller self-study course (currently completing)
Emotionally Focused Therapy: Attachment-based interventions for couples in crisis
Working with the Dream Body with Pathways Psychology Institute
Foundations in Gestalt Psychotherapy with Gestalt Sydney
Master of Counselling
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Graduate Diploma of Psychological Science
Deathwalker Training with Zenith Virago
The Intuitive Invitation Program with Sophia Harvey
200 hr Yoga Teacher Training
Bachelor of Art History and Curating
Alongside private practice, Lizzie has experience in organisational settings offering counselling for specialised family violence, family and relationships services, grief and bereavement, and eating disorders and body image issues.
I also offer deep acknowledgement to the lineage of counsellors, psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, storytellers, poets, mentors, and teachers whose work continues to inform and shape the ground of this practice.
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Our first session is a gentle beginning. We will explore what has brought you to therapy, what you are hoping for, and whether working together feels like a good fit. There is no pressure to share everything at once, we move at a pace that feels safe and supportive.
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Most clients begin with weekly or fortnightly sessions to build momentum and depth. Over time, we may shift this frequency depending on your needs. However, the frequency of appointments is entirely up to you at any point.
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The standard 60-minute session fee for couples is $180.
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If you need to reschedule or cannot make your appointment we ask that you provide 24 hours' notice, otherwise 50% of the session fee will apply.
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Sessions are available online and in person from Fern Tree on Mondays, and from Sandy Bay on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
For online sessions, a session link will be sent to your email. Please try your best to attend the session in a comfortable and private space.
If you're interested in working with together, complete the enquiry below or book a free 15 minute call to see if it feels like the right fit.