Couples Single Session

Understand your relational dance - why you get stuck - how to get unstuck.

Couples Therapy located in Anglesea, Surf Coast - servicing Torquay, Geelong and Surf Coast region. Online available Australia-wide.

 

My experience in social work, family therapy, EMDR, and Schema Therapy gives me a broad and effective toolkit to work with couples within a single session.

Why a Single Session?

Single Session Therapy (SST) is an innovative psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families, first studied in 1980 and further researched by the Bouverie Centre, Melbourne. While a single session often starts with one session, its goal is to spark meaningful change and may lead to further sessions, if needed.

A single session offers:

  • A formulation linking current relationship patterns to family of origin experiences, unmet childhood needs, and difficulties in conflict and repair.

  • We focus on feelings, urges, and unmet needs rather than blaming or content. Our goal is to foster connecting conversations.

  • I use interventions like chair work, guided imagery, and focused conversations to help you connect and address underlying issues.

  • You'll learn to identify and understand patterns that keep you stuck.

 
 

What will this look like?

Initial enquiry

  • Each person to complete a brief questionnaire - helping me to understand more about you and your relationship.

FREE 30 Min Discovery Zoom

  1. Assess Fit: Determine if we’re a good match for working together.

  2. Check Suitability: Is this is the right starting place for you both? Where there is active family violence, a single session won’t be sufficient or may not be safe for everyone.

  3. Understand Dynamics: Begin to explore your relational challenges and underlying life experiences.

  4. Questions: Ask any questions about single session couples therapy.

  5. Set Goals: Think about what you want to achieve.

Preparation:

  • Complete Assessments: Fill out questionnaires and additional assessments. Conceptualisation and understanding of your relational dynamic is included in the fee, and you’ll receive a copy to take home.

  • Return On Time: Both partners must complete and return all pre-session assessments promptly to maximize the session’s effectiveness.

Single Session:

  • A 2 hour session.

Follow-Up Zoom two weeks later (30 mins)

  • Reflective Exercise: Return the reflective exercise from your assessment pack before this call.

  • Check-In: Review how things are going after the single session—what’s working and what needs more focus.

  • Future Work: I’ll suggest next steps, which could include therapy for underlying trauma (e.g., EMDR Intensive or Six Weekly Program) or continued couples therapy.

  • Ongoing Sessions: If continuing, we'll discuss a plan based on your needs, and my availability.

“Our partners do not belong to us; they are only on loan, with an option to renew—or not. Knowing that we can lose them does not have to undermine commitment; rather, it mandates an active engagement that long-term couples often lose. The realization that our loved ones are forever elusive should jolt us out of complacency in the most positive sense”
— Esther Perell

Couples Single Session

3 contact hours plus 1 hour for assessment, workbook, and formulation - Total hours: 4

Includes a FREE 30 Min Discovery Zoom

Single Sessions Fee: $910 includes GST

*Payment plans available. Please email for further information.