Counselling services
Couples and Individual Therapy Programs and Seminars
Rebuild your relationships with couples therapy intensive programs.
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What are Intensive Couples and Individual Therapy Programs?
Can’t We Just Get Along Counselling provides intensive marriage counselling and couples workshops with certified Gottman therapists in Calgary, Alberta. We also offer individual workshops to improve mental health in several areas.
The goal of the programs is to help clients improve committed relationships and create the desired changes and positive results they seek for their individual and relationship wellness. These intensive counselling groups and workshops combine the most evidence-based theories, tools, and useful strategies to help couples get along and personal growth and well-being.
Are You Struggling with finding meaning, life purpose and connections after infertility? This group may help to support you in your journey as you wade through the pain of grief, loss, injustice, anger, low self-worth, and uncertainty. We hope that in attending this group you will find a way to navigate the pain, not have to feel alone and continue to move forward in your life’s journey.
What you will learn and experience in this group therapy:
- How to cope with the loss of having a child
- Connections and awareness to other individuals who are going through what you are going through
- Challenge thinking barriers that are stopping you from moving forward
- Find and create hope for the future and tell your story
- Learn how to cope with others' reactions to your situation and triggers around children and babies
- Create greater awareness of mindfulness & mindfulness practices
- Find a way to go through the stages of loss to acceptance in your timing and pacing of the current situation
- Increase your connection between your mind and body as you may feel it, or life has betrayed you
- Identify and explore barriers to your change process
What is the purpose of this group?
- The group's purpose is to help participants build connections, gain skills to manage their anxiety and depression, and identify hope for the future.
- The group will help you gain skills to manage anxiety and depression associated with infertility through mindfulness, movement, connection, and future goal setting.
- The group will help to create a space for you to connect and support one another as you move through a similar experience.
- We will also explore how culture and our intersecting identities influence and impact our views of infertility and the associated feelings with living without children.
What is this group based in:
Who is this group for?
How does the group work?
In-Person Couples Intensive Clinical Counselling Workshop
For Couples Who Want to Improve Their Conflict Skills, Communication, and Intimacy.
This is an intensive program that deals with topics that promote a healthy, lasting relationship.
What is the method we use? The Gottman Method.
At Can’t We Just Get Along Counselling, we use the Gottman method, developed by John and Julie Gottman, to provide effective counselling to couples in need. After 30 years of research on marriage success and failure, Dr. John Gottman developed a counselling technique that helps to increase the success of relationships. The Gottman method is centered on the conclusion that relationships last longer when couples become better friends and learn to manage conflict.
Melody Evans, our Registered Clinical Psychologist and Marriage and Family Therapist, is trained by the Gottman Institute and provides effective, research based Gottman couples therapy to couples in Calgary.
When Couples Therapy Programs are a Good Fit
- Couples want to learn and work intensively over a short period
- Couples have tried counselling and want a different experience and approach
- Couples or individuals are looking for preparatory therapy to further counselling services such as couples counselling or psychotherapy
- Couples want to improve their conflict resolution and problem-solving skills to overcome gridlock and repair their relationship with their partner
How does the group work?
The group is a combination of assessment of your relationship before you start the workshop, so you know your strengths and needs, short psychoeducational seminars with, videos, training exercises, and one on one counselling sessions with a therapist post learning the skill to apply it. Group questions and answers, followed by homework to apply your learning at home. Follow up post the workshop, with a plan to move forward after.
Register now to guarantee your spot, as space in each workshop is limited.
Registered psychologist and mental health professional Melody Evans will be your workshop leader. She creates a safe space where partners can deal with the challenges of healing from an affair, work through issues with self-esteem, and develop coping skills and emotion regulation. This program is provided to just one couple at a time.
Who Benefits from an Affair Recovery Program?
This is an intensive program for couples going through the initial discovery and recovery stages of infidelity.
Program Topics
This program covers the following issues to assist a couple dealing with the challenging problem of betrayal:
- The three phases of healing from infidelity: atone, attuning, and attaching (Gottman, 2017)
- Understanding PTSD its impact, effect, assessment of and treatment for PTSD due to an affair.
- Transparency and expressions of remorse, shock, hurt and loss
- Boundaries making sure there are only two people in the relationship now
- Understanding the story and what happened - the WHYS
- Restoring trust, and the expression of needs
- Understanding how to express emotions, tolerate and regulate our emotions
- Rebuilding the relationship, dealing with conflict and past hurts
- Responding to the betrayal and moving towards acceptance
- Moving forward in marriage with a new sense of connection: of what we are now, where were we, and what has changed.
- Ways we will stay connected now that the affair is in the past
- How to communicate dreams, wants, and needs
- How do we deal with sex and intimacy, given what we have been through?
Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work Psychoeducational Virtual Workshop in Calgary
This is an intensive program that deals with topics that promote a healthy, lasting relationship.
Who Benefits from a Couples Communication, Conflict, and Intimacy Intensive Program?
This program is best suited for partners who want to stay in their marriage but are struggling or feel they need a tune-up.
Program Topics
This program addresses the following aspects of creating healthy relationships:
- An evaluation of where we are at in our marriage
- How to understand conflict: why can we not stop fighting and why do we have the same fight over and over
- Tools to create new healthy interactions with your loved one
- How are we doing regarding money, sex, in-laws, children, and running the household
- Overcome myths of our marriage; challenge the past or current hurts and negativity
- Building our friendship or making it more robust and learning how we can express our needs.
- What is the importance of empathy and fairness, and how do we create and communicate these values?
- Review the positive and what works
- How has our individual growth affected our marriage over time?
- What do we both want, and what are we working towards together and as individuals?
- What are our beliefs and views on sex and intimacy, and how do we talk about sex? How to say yes and no to sex, dealing with feelings of guilt and the rejection, "not tonight, honey."
- How are we doing regarding our bodies, health, and physical connection? What makes us feel alive, creative, fun, and adventurous? Trauma and the effect of trauma on our relationship to our bodies, minds, spirits, and others
- This workshop is broken down into 1-hour sessions over 6 weeks on- line. Participate form the comfort of your own home.
This is an intensive program that covers all aspects of how to create a long-lasting relationship.
Who Benefits from a Pre-Marriage Program?
Program Topics
Topics include:
- Understanding Our Love Story, the Past, Present, and Future Where did we come from, and where are we going?
- How to have a long-lasting friendship
- How to effectively resolve conflict
- How to manage our money now that we are getting married
- How will in-laws and external relationships be managed
- Our plans for children and our parenting styles
- The wedding – how are we doing regarding the big day?
- The stages of marriage and our shared purpose, goals, and dreams; as a couple and as individuals
- What are our expectations of marriage?
- Questions to you should ask your partner before the big day
- How are we doing regarding sex and intimacy, and what are our expectations desires and needs long term?
Who are your presenters, and what are the group facilitator's qualifications?
Melody Evans is an authorized Seven Principles Program Educator through the Gottman Institute. She has a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy and is a Registered Clinical Psychologist, and Registered Marriage and Family Therapist. She has over twenty plus years of experience in the field of psychology; is a CAP (College of Albert Psychologist) supervisor, Certified EMDR Therapist and Approved EMDRIA Consultant.
Workshop Details
Time: March 2023
Location: In person and online via ZOOM, DOXY and at Can’t We Get Along Counselling located at #610 2424 4th Street or local hotel, depending on the workshop.
Fees
Based on the recommended fee schedule of the Association of Alberta Psychologists PAA Recommended Fee Schedule
Virtual groups – COST: $65 per hour, per person. Group counselling session lengths vary
In-Person Intensive Clinical Counselling Weekend – COST: $2500 per couple held over a weekend.
What is the cancellation policy?
Your registration fee is non-refundable 14 days before the group/workshop or seminar.
Register now to guarantee your spot, as space in each workshop is limited.
Fee is required to be paid in advance to register for the workshop. Please check with your insurance provider or health spending account to see if the fees will cover this psychological service.
