Couples Counselling
Sunshine Coast RElationship Counselling
With Grace Therapy value relationships and connection and recognise there are times where maintaining healthy relationships can take a back seat to the business of life. We work with couples to rebuild trust, improve communication, and strengthen connection.
We understand the discomfort that accompanies a sense of feeling stuck or distance in relationships, and how this can impact on seeking help and support. We’re here to make that first step feel safe, non-judgmental and supportive.
We welcome and support all types of couples, regardless of age, gender, sexuality, relationship structure, or cultural background. Whether you’re in a long-term partnership, newly dating, navigating a blended family, or part of a non-traditional or LGBTQIA+ relationship, our therapists provide a safe, respectful, and inclusive space to explore your connection and work toward shared goals.
Relationship & Couples Therapy at With Grace Therapy
We are dedicated to supporting couples in reconnecting and building stronger, healthier relationships. Taking the first step can be daunting! We’re here to reassure you that our couples therapists, Karly and Gemma meet you where you are at and work collaboratively with couples to explore your concerns, move toward meaningful change and deepen connection.
With Grace Therapy provides both in-person and online relationship and marriage counselling sessions from our Caloundra, Sunshine Coast clinic. Depending on your needs, our relationship therapists may draw on evidence-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Relational Life Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy and Schema Therapy tailored to the unique dynamics of your relationship.
No matter the challenges you and your partner are facing, our Caloundra couples therapists will meet you with empathy and respect working alongside you to rebuild trust, restore communication, and reconnect with one another.
Couples counselling may support you if you are:
- having the same argument again and again
- feeling more like housemates than partners
- struggling to communicate without defensiveness or shutdown
- rebuilding after hurt, betrayal or broken trust
- navigating parenting, blended family stress or life transitions
- unsure whether to stay, separate or repair
- preparing for marriage or commitment
- wanting a stronger emotional, physical or practical connection
Benefits of Couples Therapy
- Strengthened Communication
- Tools for Healthy Conflict Resolution
- Deeper Emotional Connection
- Support During Life Transitions
- Motivational Interviewing
- Renewed Intimacy
- Healing After Betrayal or Hurt
- Personal Growth in Relationship
- Proactive Support for Stronger Foundations
Couples + Marriage Counselling Sunshine Coast, and Australia-wide
With Grace Therapy provides couples + marriage counselling and therapy in-person at our Caloundra Sunshine Coast office, and online couples counselling for anyone in Australia.
You do not need to be in crisis to start couples counselling. Many couples come because they want to feel closer, parent more as a team, prepare for marriage, navigate a major life change, or make thoughtful decisions about the future of their relationship.
All services can be provided face to face in Caloundra, over the phone or online by telehealth (video) .
We see people Seeking Couples Counselling FOR:
- Communication difficulties – frequent misunderstandings, conflict escalation, or feeling unheard.
- Major life transitions – navigating stress from events like moving, job changes, having children, or retirement.
- Financial stress or conflict – disagreement over spending, saving, or financial priorities.
- Pre-marital counselling – building a strong foundation before marriage.
- Addiction or mental health concerns – where one or both partners are impacted.
- Different values or long-term goals – struggles with aligning visions for the future.
- Recovering after a crisis – such as illness, loss, or traumatic events affecting the relationship.
- Emotional distance or disconnection – feeling more like roommates than romantic partners.
- Infidelity or breaches of trust – working through the aftermath of affairs or betrayal.
- Intimacy or sexual concerns – changes in desire, satisfaction, or sexual connection.
- Parenting disagreements – differing views on parenting style, discipline, or family roles.
- Feeling stuck or considering separation – needing support to make informed, respectful decisions.
- Strengthening a healthy relationship – proactively maintaining connection and growth.
- Cultural or religious differences – managing diverse backgrounds and belief systems.
- Difficulty rebuilding after a past breakup or separation – working through ambivalence or reconnection after time apart.
Are you ready to take the next step?
Couples & Relationship Counselling on the Sunshine Coast
With Grace Therapy are dedicated to providing a calm, non-judgmental space for couples, partners, and individuals to explore their relationships, strengthen communication, and navigate challenges together. Whether you’re seeking support for your marriage, rebuilding trust, or improving emotional connection, our experienced team is here to help.
Our Caloundra clinic is located at 6/67 Bulcock Street, Caloundra, supporting couples from Caloundra and nearby Sunshine Coast areas including Moffat Beach, Kings Beach, Shelly Beach, Currimundi, Battery Hill, Aroona, Little Mountain, Baringa, Pelican Waters and surrounding suburbs.
Our experienced team is available to support you with questions and enquiries. Booking your appointment is easy – just call us on 07 3558 6535, or visit our Contact Page for more info.
General FAQs About Couples Counselling
With Grace Therapy offers couples counselling at our Caloundra clinic on the Sunshine Coast, as well as online relationship counselling for couples across Australia.
Not at all! Couples counselling is for people in all kinds of relationships, including dating, de facto, married, separated, blended family, LGBTQIA+ and non-traditional relationships.
Couples therapy can help you understand the patterns underneath repeated conflict, communicate more clearly, reduce blame and build more helpful ways of responding to each other.
Couples counselling can support partners to explore what happened, understand the impact, communicate safely, and decide whether and how trust can be rebuilt.
Our couples therapist, Karly, is a Certified Gottman Therapist and works with you to explains the assessment process, including joint sessions, individual sessions, a relationship check-up and feedback session.
No, for many couples they attend therapy to strengthen communication, reconnect, prepare for marriage, navigate parenting stress or prevent issues from becoming more entrenched.
You do not need to perform or pretend things are fine.
If conflict comes up in session, your therapist can help slow the conversation down, support safer communication, and notice the cycle that keeps happening between you. This can become an important part of the work.
Yes, couples counselling can support couples who are unsure whether to stay together, separate, or rebuild.
Therapy can help you have clearer, more respectful conversations about your options, especially when emotions are high or communication has become painful.
This is a common reason couples seek support.
Counselling can help you explore emotional distance, disconnection, resentment, stress, intimacy changes, and the routines that may have slowly replaced closeness. The goal is to better understand what has changed and what each person needs now.
Couples counselling is not covered my Medicare Mental Health Care Plans but some private health insurers provide rebates for couples therapy. We recommend contacting your insurer directly to confirm your eligibility and the available rebate amount.
Couples counselling may not be appropriate when there is fear, coercive control, intimidation, violence, or ongoing safety concerns.
If you are in immediate danger, call 000. If you are experiencing domestic, family or sexual violence, you can contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 for free, confidential support.
You can contact With Grace Therapy to ask questions, check availability, or book an appointment here.
Taking the first step can feel uncomfortable, especially when things have been hard for a while. You do not need to know exactly what to say. We will help guide the process from here.
