I remember how bad my parents relationship was. In fact, if I think back to my earliest memories, I have few memories where my parents weren’t fighting or annoyed at one another. Watching their relationship unfold, I began to think that was what love was - it was cruel, it was mean and it said hurtful things.

This lead me to a series of bad relationships and choosing bad people to be in relationships with. I’ve made every relationship mistake in the book. I’ve been cheated on and done the cheating. I’ve been mentally manipulated, moved state for the wrong reasons and ended up an incredibly domestic violent relationship that nearly cost me my life.

After fleeing the state and moving home to escape DV, I started the relationship I have now with my fiance. I constantly questioned the relationship but we always managed to muddle our way through. After welcoming our beautiful baby girl into the world, we realised how much we needed couples therapy. We needed tools and techniques we hadnt yet used in our relationship and couples therapy was the place to find them. After undergoing that transformation together I realised so much about myself, how I was showing up in relationships and how incredibly powerful these tools and techniques are.

I truely believe that couples therapy can help people uncover not only themselves, their patterns and their behaviour but the pathway to a love that understands, is seen, heard, acknowledged and true.