Feeling Stuck and Disconnected in Your Relationship?
You don’t have to keep having the same fight. And you don’t have to keep feeling like roommates in your own home.
We help busy parents and couples navigating the transition to parenthood understand what is happening in their relationship and learn how to repair, reconnect, and feel like a team again.
Welcome to Relationship Counselling Toronto
Offering Virtual Couples Therapy and Relationship Counselling Across Ontario
Why Couples Choose Us
✔ Specialized in couples and relationship therapy integrating Emotionally Focused Therapy & Gottman Method
✔ We help you understand, slow down, and break the pattern you are both stuck in
✔ Focused support for relationship changes that come with becoming parents - from fertility and pregnancy through the early years of raising kids together
✔ Deep understanding of the emotional realities of fertility challenges, pregnancy loss, and the transition to parenthood — informed by both clinical expertise and lived experience
✔ Trauma-informed and culturally responsive; we work at a pace that feels emotionally safe
✔ Experienced in working with interracial and neurodivergent couples
✔ Virtual sessions across Ontario
It’s Okay to Feel Unsure
Starting couples therapy can bring up a lot of questions.
You may be wondering:
Is it really bad enough?
What if therapy makes things worse?
What if my partner isn’t fully ready?
These concerns are common and completely understandable.
Our role is not to take sides or push you toward any particular outcome. We move at a pace that feels emotionally manageable and create space for both partners to feel heard.
You don’t have to be fully certain to begin. A first conversation can simply help you explore whether this feels like the right next step.
What We Believe
We truly believe that a successful relationship is not built on grand gestures; it is built on the small, everyday moments of turning to each other with genuine care.
Our goal is to help you and your partner feel seen and heard, moving from disconnection to secure, emotionally responsive partnership.
Meet Our Couples Therapy Team
Our therapists are trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and are committed to helping you feel seen, valued, and understood in your relationship. We’ll help match you with the therapist who best fits your needs and goals.
Meet Our Founder
Shirley understands what her clients are navigating because she has lived a version of it herself — in an intercultural marriage, through fertility challenges and pregnancy loss, and as a mother of two young daughters who has experienced how profoundly parenthood reshapes a relationship.
Alongside certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method, and additional training in the principles of sex therapy, she brings both clinical expertise and lived insight to help couples move from feeling stuck to truly hearing each other and feeling emotionally close again.
How We Support Relationships
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy helps you and your partner create more closeness and security with each other by exploring issues such as trust, communication, infidelity, and more.
Relationship Counselling
You may feel anxious about being single, or alone when relationships end. Relationship counselling can help you form relationships in which you feel excited and engaged.
Discernment Counselling
Discernment Counselling is designed to support couples where one partner is motivated in rebuilding the relationship and the other partner is ambivalent and uncertain.
Areas we specialize in
At Relationship Counselling Toronto we offer a broad range of specialities help couples and individuals with relationships.
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Trust & Connections
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New Parenthood
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Infidelity
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Dating
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Breaks Ups
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Emotional Connection
Strengthen your relationships with Relationship Counselling Toronto
FREE GUIDE
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Ready to take the next step?
Before scheduling an appointment, we would like to offer you a complimentary 15-minute consultation to understand your needs better and for you to have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have about the therapy process.
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