Couples Therapy

Couples counselling provides focused, evidence-based support when your relationship feels strained, uncertain, or in crisis. Whether you’re caught in repetitive conflict, recovering from betrayal, feeling emotionally or sexually disconnected, or quietly wondering if you can keep going like this, Jena offers structured guidance and practical tools that create real change. This is not just a space to talk — it’s a space to understand what’s happening between you, interrupt destructive patterns, and rebuild trust, intimacy, and stability. If you’re considering separation or unsure what the future holds, therapy can also help you gain clarity and move forward thoughtfully. When your relationship matters, getting the right support can make all the difference.
Sex Therapy

Sex therapy provides a safe, structured space to address concerns related to intimacy, desire, and sexual connection — topics that are often difficult to talk about, even within a committed relationship. Whether you’re experiencing desire discrepancies, performance anxiety, pain during sex, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, compulsive sexual behaviours, shame, or a loss of intimacy over time, these challenges are more common than you may think — and they are treatable. With advanced training in sex therapy and extensive experience working exclusively with relationship dynamics, Jena approaches sexual concerns with sensitivity, clarity, and practical direction. Sessions focus not only on understanding the emotional and relational factors involved, but also on developing concrete strategies that support lasting change. Healthy sexuality is not just about physical function — it’s about safety, communication, trust, and connection. You deserve a relationship — and a sex life — that feels fulfilling rather than confusing or distant. Support is available, and meaningful improvement is possible.
Relationship Therapy for Individuals

You don’t need your partner to show up in order to start making meaningful change. Working with Jena as an individual can help you better understand your part in the relationship, clarify what you really want, and develop practical strategies to improve connection, communication, and emotional safety — even if your partner isn’t willing to attend sessions. Individual therapy can help you set boundaries, respond differently to conflict, strengthen emotional regulation, and make decisions that feel right for you. Many people find that focusing on themselves not only brings clarity and confidence, but also shifts the overall dynamic in their relationship in ways they couldn’t have anticipated. Even if your partner never joins, investing in your own growth can create real, lasting change — for your relationship and for yourself.
Healing after Cheating / Betrayal

Discovering that your partner has been unfaithful, physically or emotionally, can feel devastating. Shock, anger, sadness, and confusion are normal — and it’s easy to feel like your relationship may never recover. Healing after betrayal isn’t about ignoring the pain or rushing forgiveness; it’s about understanding what happened, processing the emotions safely, and learning how to rebuild trust and connection — if that’s what you both want. Jena works with couples and individuals to navigate this painful process with structure, clarity, and steady guidance. She helps partners communicate honestly, process grief and anger, restore emotional and sexual intimacy, and make decisions about the future with confidence. Whether your goal is repair or clarity about next steps, therapy provides a supportive space where you don’t have to face this alone — and where real, lasting change is possible.
Discernment Counselling - should I stay or go

Feeling unsure about whether to stay in your relationship can be deeply exhausting. You may go back and forth daily — hopeful one moment, discouraged the next. This process offers a structured space to sort through those feelings without pressure. Rather than rushing toward a decision, we take time to understand what has happened in the relationship, what you really want, and whether meaningful change is possible. The goal is clarity — so whatever choice you make feels grounded and intentional, not reactive.
Separation/Divorce Counselling - for individuals & couples

Separation and divorce can feel overwhelming, especially when emotions are high and the future feels uncertain. Counselling provides a steady, supportive space to slow things down and move through this transition with clarity and care. Whether you are still deciding or have already chosen to separate, Jena focuses on reducing conflict, improving communication, and helping you navigate the process in a thoughtful way. If children are involved, she also works to protect and strengthen your ability to co-parent effectively. The goal is to help you move forward with dignity, stability, and as little unnecessary harm as possible.
Postpartum & Pregnancy

Pregnancy and the postpartum period can bring profound change — emotionally, physically, and relationally. While this season is often expected to feel joyful, it can also include anxiety, mood shifts, postpartum blues, depression, intrusive worries, changes in identity, strain on intimacy, or grief after miscarriage or pregnancy loss. These experiences are more common than many people realize, and they deserve thoughtful, compassionate support. Therapy with Jena during this stage offers a steady space to process complex emotions, strengthen communication between partners (whether you come in individually or with your partner), navigate changes in intimacy and roles, and reduce feelings of isolation or overwhelm. Whether you are adjusting to new parenthood, coping with postpartum anxiety or depression, or grieving a loss, support can help you move through this season with greater clarity, stability, and connection.
New Parents

Early parenthood can shift a relationship in ways couples don’t always expect. Sleep deprivation, new responsibilities, changes in intimacy, and the mental load of parenting can create tension or distance. As a Certified Gottman Bringing Baby Home Educator, Jena offers research-based support to help couples stay connected during this vulnerable season. Together, we focus on communication, shared expectations, emotional support, and protecting your relationship while you care for your growing family.
Emotion Coaching

Many couples don’t struggle because they don’t care — they struggle because they don’t know how to respond to each other’s emotions in the moment. When one partner feels hurt, overwhelmed, or shut down, the other may instinctively try to fix, defend, minimize, or withdraw. Over time, this pattern creates distance. Emotion coaching is a structured, research-informed approach — grounded in principles from relationship science, including the Gottman Method — that teaches you how to respond differently. In these sessions, you will learn practical tools to slow down reactivity, validate emotional experiences without agreeing or “giving in,” and communicate needs more clearly and calmly. Individuals build stronger emotional regulation and confidence, while couples practice step-by-step ways of responding that increase safety and trust. These skills are learnable. And when emotional safety grows, connection begins to feel more natural, steady, and secure.
Relationship Changes in Midlife & Beyond

After 20, 30, or more years together, it can feel devastating when your relationship starts to feel distant or uncertain. You’ve invested decades raising children, building a life, and supporting one another — and suddenly, communication feels harder, intimacy may have shifted, or you and your partner may realize you want different things for the next chapter, like retirement or personal goals. Some couples are also dealing with affairs or other betrayals that shake the foundation you’ve worked so hard to build. Jena works with couples and individuals in this stage of life to navigate these changes with care, clarity, and practical strategies. She helps her clients get to know themselves and each other at this stage of life, reconnect emotionally, improve communication, understand each other’s evolving needs, and rebuild intimacy — while honoring the years of shared history that brought you here. Even after decades together, it’s possible to create a relationship that feels meaningful, connected, and resilient as you move into this next chapter.
Premarital Counselling

Premarital counselling is an opportunity to strengthen your foundation before challenges arise. These sessions guide you through important conversations about communication, conflict, finances, intimacy, family dynamics, and future goals. Using practical tools grounded in relationship research, Jena helps you understand each other more deeply and prepare for the realities of long-term partnership. It’s not about fixing problems — it’s about building a relationship that can weather them.
Services

Why Work with Jena?
Jena works with individuals and couples facing complex relationship and intimacy challenges — including high-conflict dynamics, emotional disconnection, infidelity and betrayal, desire discrepancies, parenting strain, and sexual concerns of all kinds. She specializes exclusively in relationship counselling and sex therapy, bringing focused training and years of dedicated clinical experience to this work. Whatever you are navigating, it is likely she has guided someone through something similar with structure, clarity, and steadiness. If your relationship feels fragile, stuck, or uncertain, you don’t have to navigate it alone — with expert, specialized guidance, meaningful and lasting change is possible.
What to Expect from Relationship Counselling

A place to LISTEN & BE HEARD

A place to LEARN and PRACTICE TOOLS

A sacred space that's just for you and your relationship
We can feel lonely and misunderstood in our relationships - and that often comes from one or both partners not knowing HOW to be present with another person. In individual relationship counselling, your therapist will be mindfully and compassionately present with you, listening to your story, reflecting it back to you, and helping you organize your thoughts around it - and that, in itself, is healing and brain-changing.
In couples counselling, you and your partner will learn how to be present with each other - and that, though it's not easy and can certainly take time, is relationship-changing.
Tools are wonderful - but often not enough, in and of themselves. In our counselling sessions, your counsellor will give you evidence-based tools you can use right away, and also help you discover what obstacles might get in your way and how to work WITH those obstacles to learn more about yourself and your relationship.
It's hard to find the time to just TALK about your relationship. And sometimes, even if we have the time, we find our dynamic leads to greater isolation when we DO talk about our experiences, rather than the closeness we really want. With work and kids, we can fall into patterns that feel easy and familiar... but not connecting. In individual counselling, you have a sacred space to consider your needs and learn HOW to talk about difficult topics as well as the good stuff with your partner. In couples counselling, we create a sacred space to learn about your partner's experience in a safe, non-threatening way, and to be able to speak about your own experience in a way that your partner can HEAR (sometimes for the very first time). Often, couples leave session feeling refreshed, as we talk not only about the things that are painful but also about the moments that bring the most joy.
