Couples Therapy
Relating is a skill.
We help you design the relational structure your connection deserves (and gently retire the default one that you’ve outgrown).
Couples therapy isn’t about deciding who’s right - or “fixing” someone.
It’s about learning how to stay connected when youre activated, mis-attuned, exhausted, or afraid and building practical structures that make repair possible.
At The Rewilding Collective, we offer trauma-informed couples therapy for partners who want to strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and create a relationship that can actually hold the lives you’re living.
Who This Is For:
Couples Therapy may be the right door if you are dealing with :
recurring conflict cycles you can’t seem to break
shutdown, distance, resentment, or emotional disconnection
trust ruptures and repair after harm
nervous system dysregulation, trauma history, or attachment wounds
neurodivergence and differing needs around communication, intimacy, and sensory load
major life transitions (parenthood, grief, illness, relocation, career stress)
If you’re unsure whether couples therapy is the right fit, reach out we’ll help you map the most appropriate pathway.
How We Structure Couples Work
Most couples work best with a repeatable cadence that supports both the relationship and each individual.
Our typical rhythm is:
Individual session- Partner A
Individual session - Partner B
Couples session - together
Then we repeat.
This structure matters.
It gives each partner space to:
integrate new relational structures in their own unique way
work through individual barriers that may not be shared by their partner
build self-regulation and reflective capacity (so the couples session isn’t the only container)
bring clearer insight, accountability, and language back into the relationship
Couples sessions then become a place to practice - not just process.
If One Partner Is Already Working With Us
Many psychology practices won’t see each partner separately once couples work begins. That boundary exists for good reason: to reduce the risk of splitting, triangulation, and fragmentation when the clinician is holding multiple perspectives inside a high-charge relational system.
At The Rewilding Collective, our Clinical Director is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker — and our therapeutic training is explicitly ecological. We are trained to work with people in context: nervous system, attachment, family system, culture, power, history, and environment. We can hold the murkiness without collapsing into it — and still bring absolute clarity to what’s happening, what’s needed, and what each partner is responsible for.
That’s why we can offer a structured model where one partner may already be engaged with us individually, and the other partner joins through 1–2 individual sessions first, before commencing couples sessions.
We use the Integrated Triadic Convergence (ITC) Model to guide this work — creating a shared map for:
what’s happening inside each individual,
what’s happening between you,
where the relationship is at in its maturity cycle
and what structures need to be designed so the relationship can hold truth, repair, and forward motion.
If you’re unsure whether this pathway is appropriate for your situation, reach out — we’ll advise the best next step.
Clear Boundaries:
At TRC, we offer therapy, coaching, supervision & spiritual direction, and have different practitioners who specialise in different modalities. Here is a breakdown of the difference between our offerings. If you’re unsure which container is right, we can help you choose.
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Therapy is clinical care. It is designed to assess and treat mental health concerns and psychological distress, including trauma, anxiety, depression, and complex presentations.
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Clinical Supervision is profession-specific and focused on clinical governance: ethics, scope, risk, case formulation, and safe practice.
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Coaching is non-clinical and future-focused. It supports performance, leadership, decision-making, and sustainable capacity. It is not designed to treat mental health symptoms.
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Spiritual Direction is a reflective, sacred container for meaning, discernment, and spiritual integration. It is not a substitute for clinical mental health care.
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Clinical pastoral supervision integrates theological reflection with philosophical and psychological insights, allowing practitioners to make meaning of their experiences while maintaining safe, ethical, and attuned care. It recognises that pastoral work often involves deep engagement with suffering, existential questions, and human vulnerability, and therefore requires ongoing reflective support.
Frequently Asked Questions:
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Counselling appointments with Querida and Naomi are $180 p/h, and couples appointments are 90 minutes totalling $270.
Couples therapy with Cate, our Clinical Director are $330 p/h, and couples appointments are 90 minutes totalling $495. Individual sessions can still attract Medicare rebates.
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Not if you begin as a couple. Individual sessions are simply an option for your care plan.
Individual sessions are only necessary when one couple starts individual therapy, then decides they want to involve their partner in the work.
The individual sessions create the conditions for deeper, safer couples work by supporting each partners regulation, insight, and integration.
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It depends on your goals, the complexity of the pattern, and how much support you want around integration.
Some couples come for targeted support over a short period.
Others choose a longer arc to rebuild trust, intimacy, and communication capacity.
Plan to invest in your relationship leading up to the 7 year mark, the 15 year mark, the 21 year mark or the 30 year mark. Those are the times when relationships tend to require more TLC.
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Don’t stress! When you get your confirmation text for your appointment time, you can reply and ask for your in-person appointment to be changed to online, and we will send you a link.
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If you’re experiencing immediate risk, domestic violence, or feel unsafe, couples therapy is likely not an appropriate as a first step.
Please contact emergency services or local crisis supports.
If you’re unsure, reach out we’ll help you determine the safest next step
Crisis support contacts:
Crisis Care: 1800 199 008
Lifeline: 13 11 44
Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800
SARC (Sexual Assault Resource Centre): (08) 6458 1828
White Ribbon Helpline: 1800 RESPECT
CAHMS Crisis Connect: 1800 048 636
Ready to change the pattern, not just talk about it?
If you’re both willing to build new structures, we’ll help you create a relationship that can hold truth, tenderness, and repair.
We’ll help you find the right practitioner and the right pace with care, clarity, and clinical integrity.
Click here to book a discovery call to discuss your needs and we will be happy to assist.