Premarital & Marital Counselling & Therapy
Are you engaged to be married in the future? Would you like to enhance and deepen your relationship with your spouse? At Hopewoods Psychotherapy & Consulting Services, we have served premarital and marital couples throughout Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area since 2011 with our comprehensive, supportive premarital and marital counselling and therapy services.
How Premarital & Marital Therapy
Can Help You
Premarital counselling and therapy is recommended for any couple who has gotten engaged and they want to lay down the groundwork for a healthy marriage. Similarly, couples who are already married and are interested in strengthening their current bond and addressing potential conflicts before they occur can benefit from marital therapy and counselling.
While they bear similarities to couples therapy, premarital and marital therapy both focus on how the relationship is doing in the present time and the now, rather than navigating current problems in a relationship that are sometimes rooted in the past.
Both premarital and marital therapies centre around prevention of the majority of conflicts that a couple may face in couples therapy down the road. They are both helpful in boosting a couple’s communication skills, teaching them how to best compromise, developing the skills needed to address and navigate future and potential challenges, and overall ensuring a prosperous, happy, and healthy marriage.
Benefits of Premarital & Marital Therapy
These forms of therapy are a collaborative process with the clients and therapist, where common marital and premarital goals are worked on in each session. Goals may include understanding each other’s differences, attachment styles, and relationship better, developing healthy ways of relating to one another, and deepening the understanding about their marriage.
What's included?
The benefits of premarital & martial therapy for couples are many, including:
- Undivided attention between you as a couple and your therapist
- A new addition to your support network who is impartial
- Gaining a better understanding of yourself and your partner, while learning how to handle emotions, set boundaries, initiate coping strategies, and facilitate healthy lifestyle changes
- Gaining understanding of your relationship dynamic
- Having a safe space to discuss all issues and future challenges, where a neutral third party oversees the process
- Allows two people to really see each other’s perspectives
- May help you and your future/current spouse discover potential issues that can create certain roadblocks, address them, and collaborate on how to approach them if or when needed
- Learn strategic and effective coping skills that can help you and your spouse get through more challenging moments
- Ensure and strengthen a sense of trust
- Deepen your intimacy and connection with your partner
How it Works
At Hopewoods, our team goes beyond helping premarital and marital couples addressing and navigating issues. We help these couples to truly connect and attune to each other’s attachment needs.
We do this using what is called Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), which focuses on adult relationships, attachment styles, and connection/affection. We look at patterns in your marriage and relationship, look at your stuck points if applicable, and identify certain roadblocks such as disconnect. Then, we take the steps toward creating a deeper emotional connection and develop more trust to move your marriage or engagement in a healthy and mindful direction.
By incorporating EFT as well as other modalities into marital and premarital counselling and therapy sessions, couples can find the tools they need to enhance their relationships and truly connect with each other.
We are here to help
Our team of experienced counsellors is dedicated to providing you with a safe and supportive space to explore your thoughts and feelings. Book a 30-minute consultation with a psychometrist to match you and your spouse with a suitable therapist.
We understand that taking the first step can be difficult, which is why we offer free consultations to help you get started. You can book online or contact us directly. Please call our staff if you have any questions.