Couples counselling at Soul Mechanics cater for interracial relationships, young teens or college relationships, dating, engaged or married couples and more. Common issues addressed in sessions include financial struggles, parenting differences, sex, infidelity, friend issues, chronic health issues, infertility, trauma, gambling addictions, substance use, emotional distance, conflict and more.

Couple counselling consists of a couple willing to attend the sessions together. The counsellor would meet each client individually and listen to their issues apart if needed. Typically, the first session involves a standard set of questions regarding each partner’s culture, values and origin. Once this process is complete, the counsellor will bring both parties together for a session.

Each session would typically last approximately 90 minutes with your counsellor, once every two weeks at Soul Mechanics unless stated otherwise.

While each counsellor may use different techniques and theories, the ongoing sessions primarily focus on a specific issue brought up, requires active collaboration from both partners, and is solution and objectives focused on early within the sessions. Typically, the counsellor would help both partners change the views of their relationship, improve communication, change dysfunctional behaviours, reduce emotional avoidance of one another and promote each of their strengths in the relationship.