Auckland PSI^TM  Institute

Family or Couples Therapy tends to be more efficient than individual therapy because you get to work through your issues together, as a team, and there is less tendency to relapse because it is easier for an individual to change when the family system changes with them. Relationship or Family  Counselling offers a safe place where each person can be heard, first by the therapist, and ultimately by each other.  Sometimes the therapist acts as a translator, but never as a referee. It helps to start by exploring the strengths of each relationship, and what makes for positive mutual experiences.

Sometimes understanding the history of the problem and the histories that each individual brings to the relationship or family can help to uncover familial patterns that may be repeating themselves through the generations. When this is the case, we can use a genogram- an emotional family tree of interactional patterns - to help you understand where some basic assumptions and communication styles may come from. Understanding this will help you see each other more accurately, with less intrusion from past relationships.  Couples may begin to remember what drew them to each other, and what each offers the other over the long run. 

Relationships can bring out the best and the worst in us, cause us heartbreak and ecstasy.  Romantic relationships, be they heterosexual or gay, within or outside of the institution of marriage, intimate, distant, or from afar, effect all other aspects of our lives.  So too do our relationships with other family members.  They are too  important to treat lightly.  When problems arise, the earlier the intervention, the easier it is to get back on course.

Couples and family sessions are charged at $120 for a 50 minute session or $144 per 60 minute session. To make an appointment, click here: Make an appointment

For non-traditional families and couples see: Relationship Counselling Page      

For a description of Couples and Family Therapy Approaches see: Family Therapy Page

 1. Arguing = trouble.
2. Distance = trouble.
 3. Opposites attract.
4. Flattery will get you nowhere.

5.  You have to agree on the BIG issues (like children, sex and money).
6. People divorce because they “grow apart”.

7. Couples divorce because they get older and change physically.

8.  The more sex the better. 

9. A fat woman will lose her man.
10. Men and women have to be equal in a good marriage.

Auckland PSI^TM (PsychoSomatic Integration) Institute and Psychotherapy 

254 Lincoln Road, Suite 5, Henderson, West Auckland, New Zealand

Office right off the Western Motorway

For map and directions click here

Phone: (027)  657 2106