Couples / Relationship Therapy

We would all like to have healthy relationships where there is lots of honesty, respect, trust and open communication. In our fast-paced twenty-first century world, sometimes it is hard to slow down and make sure that we are doing everything we can to support the health of our couple relationship.

After 30 years of practice Dr. Lisa Sheinin uses many approaches, including elements of psychodynamic and family therapy, as well as cognitive behavioural approaches and relational therapy to offer help in practical ways for the short-term, but also to build long term stability in relationship.

Working together, Dr. Sheinin will help you to find the best approaches to help your relationship work.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Psychodynamic therapy uses the idea that early childhood relationships/experiences may be very much alive in our present day/life relationships. Family Systems therapy is basically the idea the feelings float around in families but may be expressed differently, by different family members. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is therapy to help you change the way you feel by changing the way you think. We almost all use some CBT ideas in our day-to -day life already, without even going to see a therapist. Finally relational therapy basically uses principles of all of the other therapies, but really places a lot of value on relationship. Ithad its origins in the psychology of women