Couples often reach out because they want to "work on their relationship," but they don't know whether Relationship Counseling or Relationship Coaching will help them most. Both can be transformative, but they serve different purposes,  and use different tools, at different speeds.

 

This page is meant to help you and your partner figure out which method will work best for you right now.

 

Relationship Counseling

Counseling for relationships is a medical service that helps people work through emotional, mental, and social problems that are hurting their relationships. When deeper, unresolved problems like trauma, attachment scars, broken communication, infidelity, or emotional disconnection are getting in the way of trust and intimacy, this is the right thing to do.

 

The Gottman Method, REBT, DBT, and Attachment Theory are just a few of the therapeutic frameworks that are used in counseling sessions. The process is planned, exploratory, and healing, and its main goals are to understand core dynamics, control emotions, and change behavior.

Some of the most common goals of relationship counseling are: 

• Healing from betrayal, mistrust, or ongoing conflict 

• Improving emotional communication and empathy 

• Dealing with mental health issues that affect the relationship 

• Rebuilding connection and safety after long-term separation or divorce 

• Getting through big changes like marriage, loss, or separation

 

Relationship Coaching

On the other hand, relationship coaching is focused on the future and growth. Healing emotional wounds isn't the point. The point is to help people or couples grow in love, communication, and intentional partnership by building new relational skills, perspectives, and habits.

 

This method combines psychological knowledge with real coaching techniques to help you make your values clear, set goals for your relationship, and start new ways of interacting with others. People or couples who are high-functioning but want more clarity, depth, and unity in how they love can benefit the most from coaching.

 

Relationship coaching often aims to: 

• Make relationship goals and shared values clear

• Improve communication and intimacy skills

• Increase relational confidence and emotional availability

• Help individuals navigate dating and commitment while increasing (self) awareness

• Create a relationship vision that feels purposeful and expansive

 

Whether we move through counseling or coaching, the work remains rooted in authenticity, insight, and the courage to grow.

 

Our goal is not simply to help you “fix” your relationship, but to help you understand, evolve, and expand within it.​​​

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