Couples Counselling

Rebuild trust, strengthen your bond

Feeling disconnected or in conflict? Many Calgary couples face communication breakdowns and stress. At CPC Clinics, our couples counselling offers real solutions to rebuild trust, improve communication, and restore a loving connection.

Couples Counselling Overview: Our Calgary couples therapy provides a safe, supportive space to address a range of relationship challenges. We tailor the experience to your needs with:

Effective Communication Coaching:

Effective Communication Coaching:

Learn proven techniques to truly listen and express yourself without blame or hostility…

Effective Communication Coaching:
Learn proven techniques to truly listen and express yourself without blame or hostility. Our coaching helps you navigate difficult conversations with clarity, fostering empathy and understanding. Whether addressing sensitive issues or resolving conflicts, we’ll teach you how to communicate constructively, build trust, and strengthen your relationships.

Conflict Resolution Strategies:

Conflict Resolution Strategies: 

Break unproductive cycles of fighting. We guide you in managing disagreements constructively and finding common…

Conflict Resolution Strategies:
Break unproductive cycles of fighting. We guide you in managing disagreements constructively, turning conflicts into opportunities for growth. Our strategies help you stay calm, listen actively, and find common ground even during the toughest discussions. By learning how to handle disagreements in a healthy way, you’ll improve communication, reduce stress, and strengthen your relationship in the long run.

Emotional Intimacy Building:

Emotional Intimacy Building :

Reconnect on a deeper level. Exercises in empathy and understanding help you rekindle affection…

Emotional Intimacy Building:

Reconnect on a deeper level. Our exercises in empathy and understanding guide you through the process of rekindling affection and trust. By fostering emotional vulnerability and open communication, we help you strengthen the bond with your partner, creating a safe space for both to express feelings and needs. Together, you’ll rebuild a foundation of love, trust, and emotional closeness that lasts.

Support for Specific Issues:

Support for Specific Issues:

Whether it’s recovering from infidelity, navigating parenting or blended family stress, or coping with external pressures (work, finances…

Support for Specific Issues:
Whether it’s recovering from infidelity, navigating parenting challenges, managing blended family stress, or coping with external pressures like work or finances, our therapists are here to help you tackle these issues as a team. We provide personalized support, offering tools and strategies to address each challenge with understanding and resilience. Together, we’ll help you strengthen your relationship and overcome obstacles, creating a solid foundation for growth and healing.

Personalized Action Plans:

Personalized Action Plans:

After assessing your unique dynamic, we provide actionable steps and homework to practice new skills in between sessions – ensuring…

Personalized Action Plans:

After assessing your unique dynamic, we provide actionable steps and exercises to practice between sessions, ensuring progress continues at home. These plans help reinforce positive change and support lasting growth in your relationship.

How Couples Counselling Can Strengthen Your Bond

Meet Our Calgary Couples Counsellors :

Flexible & Accessible Counselling Options :

We’re committed to making couples counselling convenient, transparent, and accessible—whether you’re in Calgary or anywhere across Alberta.

Sessions start from $240 CAD per session

Insurance billing available under specific conditions

In-person sessions available in Calgary

Virtual therapy sessions offered throughout Alberta

Let’s find a time and format that works best for you

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As the golden leaves begin to fall in Calgary’s beautiful parks and the crisp autumn air settles in, many couples find themselves facing an unexpected challenge.

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1. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) :



What It Is :

Emotionally Focused Therapy is a research-backed couples counselling approach designed to uncover each partner’s unmet attachment needs and vulnerabilities. By focusing on the emotional undercurrents of your interactions, EFT helps you break negative cycles and create a secure base.

How It Strengthens Your Bond:

  • Deepens Emotional Connection: Builds a safe space where both partners feel genuinely heard, reducing defensiveness and enabling honest sharing of fears and needs.
  • Transforms Negative Patterns: Converts “protest-withdraw” cycles into secure attachment behaviors, so conflicts are met with empathy rather than escalation.
  • Boosts Relationship Satisfaction: Increased emotional responsiveness leads to more frequent positive interactions and lasting intimacy.

2. The Gottman Method

What It Is :

Rooted in over four decades of relationship research, the Gottman Method equips couples with practical tools for effective communication and conflict resolution. Therapists guide you in replacing the destructive “Four Horsemen” (criticism, defensiveness, contempt, stonewalling) with positive, trust-building behaviors.

How It Strengthens Your Bond:

  • Enhances Communication Skills: Teaches structured techniques—like “I-statements” and stress-reducing conversations—to help you discuss sensitive issues calmly and productively.

  • Repairs Trust & Builds Intimacy: Focuses on increasing daily expressions of appreciation, affection, and respect, solidifying the friendship at your relationship’s core.

  • Prevents Future Conflicts: By mastering practical exercises, you learn to catch and defuse tension before it becomes a full-blown argument.

3. Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy (CBCT)

What It Is :

CBCT targets the negative thought and behavior patterns that fuel resentment and misunderstandings. Through cognitive restructuring and behavioral rehearsal, couples learn to identify and challenge unhelpful beliefs—such as “They don’t care about me”—and replace them with realistic, compassionate perspectives.

How It Strengthens Your Bond:

  • Clarifies Misconceptions: Helps you pinpoint triggers and false assumptions that lead to conflict, fostering empathy and reducing misplaced blame.

  • Promotes Team-Based Problem-Solving: Shifts the dynamic from “you vs. me” to “us vs. the problem,” encouraging collaborative strategies and mutual support.

  • Improves Emotional Regulation: Teaches coping skills and thought-reframing techniques to manage intense emotions and maintain constructive dialogue.

4. Solution-Focused Therapy

What It Is :

Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes your strengths and future goals rather than revisiting past conflicts. By identifying “what’s already working,” this rapid-results approach empowers you to replicate positive patterns and achieve meaningful change in a shorter timeframe.

How It Strengthens Your Bond:

  • Accelerates Positive Change: Focuses on actionable steps and small wins, so you see progress quickly and stay motivated to build on successes.

  • Cultivates a Shared Vision: Encourages partners to co-create a detailed picture of their preferred relationship, fostering unity and purpose.

  • Reinforces Strengths: Highlights each partner’s contributions to the relationship, boosting confidence and mutual appreciation.