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Steadfast Vancouver Counseling Services provides a wide variety of counselling services:

• Relationship Counseling
• Couples Counseling
• Marriage Counseling
• Spirituality & Transpersonal Counselling
• General & Family Counseling
• Separation & Divorce Counselling
• Grief & Loss Counselling
• Mental Health Counselling

We can help with :

• Communications Building
• Loss of Intimacy
• Self-Esteem/Self-Concept
• Personal development
• Successful Co-Parenting Strategies
• Parent Teen Conflict
• Parenting Challenges
• Anxiety
• Apathy/feeling stuck
• Stress/Burnout
• Anger Management
• Life Transitions
• Sexual Abuse Recovery
• Post Partum Depression & Anxiety
• Depression
• Addictions
• Alcohol & Drug Misuse
• Family Conflict
• Life Meaning & Purpose
• Phobias/Fears
• Re building trust

     

North Vancouver & New Westminster
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Emotional Focused Therapy for Couples in Vancouver & New Westminster

Strengthen your bond, feel more connected as a couple and reconnect with your natural instinct of closeness and the purpose of your relationship.

EFT is a short-term approach to helping distressed couples find their way back to a loving and close relationship. Often when we feel upset in our relationship, we seem to turn away from each other, even though, most likely, our first and most natural instinct is to move towards each other. Usually, based on something that has happened in this relationship previously or somewhere in our past, we override this instinct and turn away as a means to protect ourselves. EFT supports couples to reconnect with this natural instinct of closeness and attachment. EFT to me is one of the quickest and easiest ways to go to the core of a couple’s distress patterns. It is an approach that supports both of you in the process of moving from a distant or gridlocked conflict towards a stance with each other that promotes a secure and loving bond.

EFT was developed by leading Canadian psychologists, Dr. Susan Johnson and Dr. Leslie Greenberg. The course of therapy often takes 12 to 30 sessions, where couples are guided through the following process of therapy: Stage one involves looking and understanding the current negative or non-helpful cycle you are in and understanding this current cycle and the underlying emotions and desire to feel closer to each other. Stage two is about reconnecting, about learning to accept your experience as well as your partner's, about getting to discover aspects of yourself, and about learning new ways of interacting with one another. Stage three is about consolidating your new way of being together and looking at new solutions to your old patterns, so that you are able to apply these new skills to moving toward each other. If you are looking to strengthen your bond and feel more connected as a couple, this may be the time for you to try some EFT session with one of the Steadfast Counsellors.

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