Is your sex life falling apart because of your libido?

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Is your Sex Life falling apart because of your Libido? A common complaint couples share with me in my role  me as Burnaby relationship counsellor specializing in sex therapy and marriage counseling is a loss in libido. Usually these are long-term partners who are unhappy about the steady decline of passion and fire in their lovemaking. Often there is a higher desire partner and a lower desire partner and the self-diagnosis is a loss of …

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Why can couple’s counselling before marriage have an impact on your sex life?

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Why can couple’s counselling before marriage have an impact on your sex life? Pre-marital counselling or pre marriage therapy is becoming more and more popular, not only with celebrities like Jennifer Aniston. When couples come to see me because they need help resolving conflicts they have become gridlocked on, in our first session I also ask “How is your sex life?”. Usually the answer is: “It hasn’t been great for a while”. [jwplayer mediaid=”1220″] While …

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Is Addiction Relapse Prevention part of your Wedding Preparations?

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Is Addiction Relapse Prevention part of your Wedding Preparations? Are you worried your wedding plans might lead to an addiction relapse? As a couple’s therapist and addiction counsellor who specializes and is passionate about premarital counseling, it is my job to help couples make wise choices in their wedding planning if one partner is also in recovery. The lasting ripple effect of Addiction can sometimes come as a surprise, especially when the individual is sober …

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Why understanding Mr. Duffy can save your marriage

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Why understanding Mr. Duffy can save your marriage or How to stop escalating relationship conflicts. When couples contact me for relationship counselling and marriage therapy, I invite them to fill out a personal info form where they are asked to name their short and long term goals for couple’s counselling. 80% of couples that seek out my services as a marriage and family therapist want to change how they communicate. More specifically they want to …

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Are these 4 LOVE ERASERS at work in your relationship?

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Are these 4 LOVE ERASERS at work in your relationship? They use different aliases: marriage wreckers, divorce predictors, love erasers…but they all do the same thing. They are the termites that slowly eat away at your marriage. I recently wrote an article on my website www.goddessrevealed.ca which focuses on counselling for anxiety and stress relief. The post is called “How to raise your Happiness Quotient” and discusses the effects of negativity on the brain as …

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Do you know the number 1 secret to a fulfilling long-term relationship?

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Do you know the number 1 secret to a fulfilling long-term relationship? You may be surprised if I told you that you would have received an answer to this question at my Hot Yoga class the other day. While several of us were struggling with a pose, the instructor repeated  “The answer lies in the connection!” a few times. From experience I know this is true. When I can stay fully connected to my body …

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