Couples therapy to help you reconnect, repair, and feel like a team again.
In-person and online relationship therapy for couples feeling stuck in conflict, distance, hurt, or disconnection.
Most couples arrive at therapy when they feel they’ve exhausted their own resources. You might recognise yourself in these moments:
The same argument keeps coming back: You feel stuck in a loop, fighting about the same topics (money, kids, chores) without ever reaching a resolution.
You feel more like housemates than partners: You’ve become great at logistics and co-parenting, but the emotional and physical intimacy has faded into the background.
You avoid conflict, shutdown, or walk on eggshells: To avoid tension or arguments, one or both of you may withdraw, stay quiet, or carefully manage conversations — leaving you feeling increasingly disconnected from each other.
Trust has been hurt or broken: You are navigating the aftermath of an affair, a secret or a moment of abandonment when you needed your partner most.
“Most couples are not struggling because they do not care. They are struggling because they have become caught in patterns that make it hard to reach each other.”
Couples therapy can help you understand the cycle you are caught in, communicate with more safety, and rebuild emotional closeness over time.
Start couples therapy in 3 easy steps:
1. Complete the enquiry form
Answer a few brief questions so we can understand what you are looking for.
2. We review your needs
Our team will consider your situation and help you take the next step with couples therapy.
We’ll be in touch to help you book and get started.
3. We contact you with next steps
Our Approach: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
At The Heart & Mind Collective, couples therapy is not about taking sides, assigning blame, or giving you a script to follow.
We use Emotionally Focused Therapy, an attachment-based approach that helps couples understand the deeper patterns underneath conflict, distance, hurt, and withdrawal.
Rather than focusing only on the surface argument, EFT helps you recognise what happens between you when one partner feels unheard, rejected, criticised, abandoned, overwhelmed, or alone.
The aim is to help both partners feel safer, more understood, and more able to reach for each other in difficult moments.
Why EFCT?
Understand the pattern
We help you identify the cycle you get caught in, so the relationship becomes the focus — not blaming each other.
Repair emotional injuries
Therapy can support couples to work through ruptures, betrayals, disconnection, or moments where one partner felt deeply alone.
Rebuild secure connection
The goal is to help both partners feel more emotionally safe, supported, and connected.
Ready to take the next step?
Complete the form below and our team will be in touch to help you get started.
Meet Leigh Wallace
Couples Therapist & EFT Practitioner
Leigh supports couples experiencing conflict, emotional distance, communication difficulties, ruptures in trust, and relationship disconnection.
Her approach is warm, grounded, and non-judgemental, helping couples better understand the patterns keeping them stuck and begin rebuilding emotional safety and connection.
Leigh’s approach
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attachment-based couples therapy
Trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming care
Supporting both high-conflict and withdrawn couples
Helping couples rebuild emotional connection and trust
Leigh works with couples at many different stages of their relationship — including those wanting to strengthen connection, navigate ongoing conflict, or repair after periods of hurt and disconnection.
Currently accepting new couples referrals
Not sure if couples therapy is right for you?
Many couples feel uncertain before reaching out — especially if things have felt difficult for a while.
You do not need to be in crisis, on the verge of separation, or have everything figured out before starting therapy.
Couples therapy can support partners who feel stuck in conflict, emotionally disconnected, overwhelmed by parenting or life stress, navigating differing parenting styles, recovering from hurt or betrayal, or simply wanting to strengthen their relationship and reconnect.
At The Heart & Mind Collective, the focus is not on assigning blame or deciding who is “right.” Therapy is about helping both partners feel heard, understood, and supported while working toward a healthier, more secure connection together.
Taking the first step can feel vulnerable — our team is here to support you through the process with warmth, care and confidentiality.
Hear more about Leigh’s approach to couples therapy
Starting couples therapy can feel vulnerable. These short videos are designed to help you get a feel for Leigh’s approach, the therapy process, and how couples therapy can support reconnection and understanding.
Meet Leigh Wallace, our Couples Therapist
Is it too late for therapy if we’re already considering separation?
How to rebuild trust after it’s been broken.
How to reconnect when you feel like 'roommates'?
We have the same argument every week, how do we break the cycle?
How therapy can help even when things are 'mostly okay'?
No time? Here is the flexibility I offer for parents.
How to navigate different parenting styles without constant friction
What does 'healthy' conflict actually look like?
What to expect at your first couples therapy session together? And how the series/process will look.