Enhance Your Relationship: Professional Couples Counselling in South Yarra

Relationships are pivotal in shaping our emotional well-being and overall happiness. Significant life transitions—like cohabitation, welcoming a new family member, career changes, or financial challenges—can put immense pressure on our most intimate bonds. Emotional strains often manifest, giving rise to entrenched behavioural cycles that compound issues rather than resolve them.

This is precisely where the value of relationship counselling for South Yarra couples becomes apparent. Such counselling furnishes couples with a professionally guided sanctuary to delve into their emotions, convictions, and behaviours. It offers an opportunity to dismantle these unhealthy cycles, replacing them with constructive coping mechanisms. We use tailored therapeutic approaches to equip couples with actionable tools to navigate emotional complexities, ultimately nurturing more resilient, fulfilling relationships. This professional guidance serves as a cornerstone for not only immediate problem-solving but also for instilling lifelong relationship skills.

Meet Our Counsellors

Meet our seasoned professionals behind your journey towards a stronger, more fulfilling relationship. At MSRCC, our diverse team of therapists brings a wealth of expertise and qualifications to provide tailored, compassionate counselling services.

Susan Lackner

• Expertise: Specialises in Couple, Relationship and Individual Therapy. Uses neuroscience research and unique tools for personal growth.
• Qualifications: Master of Social Science in Couple Counselling, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.
• Professional Memberships: PACFA, ACA, Society of Australian Sexologists.

Josey Roydhouse

• Expertise: Focuses on Emotion-Focused Therapy and Attachment Theory for relationship counselling with experience with the LGBTIQA+ community.
• Qualifications: Certificate in Couples Counselling from Relationships Australia, Advanced Diploma of Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy.
• Professional Memberships: PACFA.

Deborah Cole

• Expertise: Focuses on child and adult attachment theories and trauma with extensive experience in post-separation counselling.
• Qualifications: Certificate in Couples Counselling from Relationships Australia, Bachelor of Social Work.
• Professional Memberships: AASW.

Gillian Fernandes

• Expertise: Specialises in emotionally focused therapy, attachment theory, and Gottman methods. Expertise in polyamorous relationships.
• Qualifications: Master of Counselling (Specialising in Couple Counselling), Graduate Diploma Counselling.
• Professional Memberships: ACA.

Nick Mason

• Expertise: Experienced in conflict resolution, trauma, stress, and anxiety. Works with a broad socio-economic background and the LGBTIQA+ community.
• Qualifications: Master of Counselling (Specialising in Couple Counselling), Bachelor of Psychological Sciences.
• Professional Memberships: ACA.

Laura Emmi

• Expertise: Works on issues related to trauma, mental illness, and interpersonal relationship conflict with completed training specific to couple therapy.
• Qualifications: Master of Social Work, Master of Counselling (current).

Sharon Weingarten

• Expertise: Specialises in couples and family therapy, with a focus on relationship struggles, parenting difficulties, and mental health concerns.
• Qualifications: Master’s in Counselling (in progress), Specialist Course in Integrative Couple Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy Externship

Belinda Greig

• Expertise: Uses an integrative, evidence-based approach and welcomes all members of the LGBTIQA+ community. Focuses on parenting complexities.
• Qualifications: Master of Counselling (Couples, current), Graduate Diploma in Counselling.

Edina Tugui

• Expertise: Works mainly with families and couples, drawing on Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, Attachment Theory, and The Gottman Method.
• Qualifications: Masters of Counselling (Couples, current), Bachelor of Psychological Studies.

Mellisa Clark

• Expertise: Brings a cross-cultural understanding to relationship challenges. Emphasises self-awareness and systems thinking.
• Qualifications: Masters of Counselling, Specialist Course in Integrative Couple Therapy.

Find Professional Couples Counselling with MSRCC in South Yarra

Navigating the complexities of a relationship is a challenging journey that you don’t have to take alone. At the Melbourne Specialist Relationship Counselling Clinic (MSRCC), we’re here to provide expert guidance and effective therapeutic strategies. We’re not just offering you a listening ear; we are extending a professional hand to help you and your partner work through both spoken and unspoken issues. In collaboration with our highly trained counsellors, you’ll gain the skills needed for improved communication and greater emotional understanding, thus fostering a more harmonious relationship.

To arrange a meeting or a free consultation with one of our highly qualified counsellors, call us at 0411 615 313 or email us at admin@msrcc.com.au. While our primary clinic is in Malvern, we are committed to making our couples counselling services accessible to the South Yarra community and the wider east and southeast of Melbourne through face-to-face and telehealth options. With this promise of accessibility, our relationship counselling services are available in Armadale, Malvern, Prahran, Caulfield and Winsdor.

Rest assured, we adhere to the strictest professional standards, following PACFA and ACA guidelines, to offer unparalleled quality in relationship counselling services in South Yarra. Your journey towards a more fulfilling relationship starts with MSRCC.