Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Evidence based relational skills and knowledge
Are you tired of repeating the same patterns?
Feel like you're stuck in a loop?
Sick of going over and over the same old issues?
Finding it hard to communicate and be understood?
Struggling to manage conflict effectively?
Wondering how to get the intimacy back in your relationship?
FOR A BETTER RELATIONSHIP YOU NEED
Better Skills
A secure, healthy, loving relationship doesn’t come from simply trying harder. Many couples seek couples counselling because they feel stuck in recurring patterns, struggling with communication, conflict, or emotional disconnection. Lasting change requires practical relationship skills and a deeper understanding of what’s happening beneath the surface.
Most of us were never taught how to communicate well or navigate conflict in intimate relationships, yet we often expect we should just know—especially if we’ve found the “right” person. This isn’t realistic. Healthy relationships need support to make sense of ourselves in relationship and the deeper challenges beneath communication, conflict, and connection.
Whether you’re addressing issues early, working through ongoing conflict, or questioning whether to stay or leave your relationship, couples counselling can help you gain clarity, strengthen your skills, and move forward with greater confidence and connection.
Why Couples Therapy?
Everyone deserves the happiness that comes from secure, healthy, deeply connected relationships
Relationship experts agree, secure, healthy relationships require self-awareness, dedicated attention, and key relational skills. People in successful relationships actively work on the qualities and skills they need to ensure a loving, connected relationship especially during challenging communication and conflict. Our couples counselling aims to provide you with those skills.
Our counselling approach is informed by attachment theory, relational theory and neuroscience, to guide you to create a vision for your relationship and provide you with the crucial relational tools to deepen love, revitalise love or move on from love with dignity.
ABOUT AMY
Amy is a qualified Psychotherapist, Relationship Counsellor and Relational Skills Educator. (That’s Amy in the pic with husband, Nathan.) For over a decade, Amy has helped clients to find love, deepen the love they have or move on with dignity. Amy’s passion is to help as many people as possible to deepen their love and connection – so we can all experience a more loving world.
AWARDS & MEMBERSHIPS
Counsellor Excellence Award
PACFA Registered Clinical Counsellor (23291)
Outstanding Student Satisfaction
SUCCESS STORIES
“We had relationship counselling before which didn’t help at all but Amy is brilliant.”
– Anne
“Thanks Amy. You saved our relationship.”
are you ready?
COUPLES COUNSELLING
$249 per session
Couples therapy session with Amy Islip
Sessions are up to 60 minutes and can be attended face-to-face at our rooms in Melbourne CBD or via online platform, zoom. See contact page for location.
For zoom sessions please ensure the following:
You can be seen clearly on camera
You have a good internet connection
You are in a private space.
Zoom or face to face sessions available.
Payment is due on the day of your session via credit card or direct bank transfer.
COUPLES MASTERCLASSES
$690 or $130 monthly
Monthly LIVE online masterclasses with Relationship Expert, Amy Islip.
Attend monthly masterclasses over 6 months held live online or access recorded classes at your convenience:
- Create your compelling relationship vision
- Understand your attachment style and it’s impact
- Identify your personality parts and how they work
- Speak your truth – communicate like a pro
- Manage conflict to strengthen your relationship
- Supercharge your connection and intimacy
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Includes:
6 x live online masterclasses (1.5 hrs each)
Workbook
Attachment Style Quiz
Email reminders and tips
* Monthly payment plan available
FAQ’s
Is the therapy online or face to face?
You can choose between face to face in our Melbourne office or online sessions. (Walking distance from Southbank, Docklands, Melbourne CBD. Closest station, Southern Cross. Direct trams from Port Melbourne, St Kilda, Richmond and Brunswick.)
See contact page for Melbourne CBD office location.
How do the masterclasses work?
The training component of the Couples Masterclasses consists of live online classes via zoom. Only 10 spots per class available. Courses run regularly and modules are held each month. (This allows clients to book therapy between sessions.) If you miss a class you will be sent the recorded session.
You will need to allow 1.5 hours per module and dates and times will be provided so you can lock it into your calendar (evening and day times available). Register for a free consult and we will let you know when the next course starts.
Can we claim on my health insurance?
Most private health insurance allows you to claim individual counselling but relationship counselling is not usually covered.
Talk with your private health insurer to clarify.
Can we use a mental health care plan?
Sessions are not eligible under mental health care plans through your GP.
Is THIS right for you?
We want to ensure you get the results you are after so it has to be the right fit.
Couples Counselling with Think Better is right for you if you are:
- Seeking to understand yourself and each other more
- Open to identify and work with difficult emotions
- Open to identify and work with relationship patterns
- Keen to learn new relationship skills
- Willing to do things differently to grow and change
- Committed to do the work
It doesn’t matter where you are starting from. Some clients come to us having never had any counselling or skills development. Many of our clients have had counselling that hasn’t helped. They find our approach, which combines counselling, coaching and skills development, to be more helpful and effective.
The best way to establish whether Couples Counselling with Think Better is a good fit for you is to chat with us. Then you really get a sense of who we are and how we operate.
We’d love to talk with you.