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The quality of our relationships impacts greatly on our ability to thrive. When our relationships start to struggle or breakdown, we feel isolated – we are in pain. If you are feeling frustrated, uncared for, tired, angry, alone, hopeless or fearful for your future, I really encourage you to take action and get help. It can be almost impossible to fix disconnection and conflict between you and your loved ones without an outside, neutral person to help you navigate your issues.
Against all advice to “keep things brief”, our website is full of information on all aspects of relationship struggle. So, even if engaging with one of us isn’t an option for you right now, it is our sincere intention that this website can help you make sense of your relationship challenges.
If you’re not feeling happy or close in your most intimate relationship, we offer gentle and effective therapy that helps you get away from conflict and distance. We work to reignite the bond between you.
Our Discernment Counselling sessions help if you are close to “done”. We try to uncover what has gone wrong and turn things around, and if that isn’t possible, we offer breakup support.
Our individual struggles are often deeply connected to our early relationships. Understanding the ways your past attachments and trauma have shaped you heals you towards a happy future.
We run couple retreats that are educational, fun and very rewarding for participants. Some of our practitioners offer 2-day relationship therapy intensives for time poor couples.
We help you unpack the complex web of family dynamics that can form a feedback loop that causes multiple relationships in families to become unhelpfully strained.
We understand relationships at a deeper level – and workplace relationships can severely impact your wellbeing. We train teams on how to have empathic, positive & conflict free relationships.
We look after Relationship Therapists around Australia who may otherwise feel isolated in their important and challenging work. We provide support, clinical supervision and training.
We are passionate about delivering capital city quality therapy to couples, individuals and families that are geographically isolated across Australia through online and intensive counselling.
Expert online counselling tailored for rural and remote clients, offering support wherever you are.
To feel loved, appreciated, safe and connected—isn’t that what we all want? And if we’re no longer in love, don’t we still want our ex partner to value us, respect our opinion and act honourably?
The focus of our centre is to find creative ways to help couples really understand each other through effective relationship counselling, separation discerning, mediation and break-up support. We also see individuals who are
looking for high quality counselling that will support, and not undermine, their ongoing relationships.
As therapists, we share a common way of being with clients that brings out the natural personality traits that brought us to this kind of work. As a rule we tend to pride ourselves on being gentle, caring and empathetic people. We might have slight differences in the way that we are, but our culture here is to be down to earth and approachable. We maintain a sense of humour to keep things real. We will listen to you sensitively and compassionately, in whatever emotional state you are in, for as long as it takes, until you feel heard and understood.
If you’re in a relationship—we will show you proven techniques for solving the never-ending cycle of conflict, or the feeling that you’ll never be good enough for your partner or that they will never put your needs first. Our practitioners are dedicated to helping you discover that it is possible to regain the connection you once felt with your partner.
If one of you is ready to leave, we will use discernment techniques designed to help you both examine if separation is the best step forwards. We need to help you create breathing space that lets you both get on the same page.
If you’re already separated, we offer mediation to help you finalise your time together in a constructive way and help you both to feel empowered as you move forward. The centre can also provide counselling for those finding a break-up too overwhelming, or who need support through the family law process.
Contact us if you would like an appointment in Canberra or read more about our services below.
We offer both relationship workshops and relationship counselling intensives to couples who are time poor or who are looking for focused help on their relationship.
One crucial way to become the best practitioner we can be is by seeking support in our work. This, of course, includes mandated clinical supervision, but it also involves connecting with others for debriefing and encouragement, feeling part of a team, and engaging in professional learning. We aim to provide support for therapists living in rural and regional Australia or who are feeling isolated in private practice.
Post-COVID, many people, including therapists, have moved away from capital cities and are now working remotely. Whether you’ve always lived in rural Australia or have recently relocated, read more about how we can support you, including helping you connect with rural and remote clients.
"Our relationship felt strengthened and we felt a deeper tenderness for each other afterwards."
YMU Client Testimonial
