Last Updated on 23 October 2024 by Brisbane Livewell Clinic
Get the Relationship Counselling You Need at Brisbane Livewell Clinic
At Brisbane Livewell Clinic, Mel Blair offers a wide range of relationship counselling services, helping individuals, couples, and families navigate various challenges. Mel provides a supportive, trauma-informed environment where clients can explore their emotions, address conflicts, and rebuild connections.
Categories of Relationship Counselling
Mel offers several targeted services based on different relationship needs:
1. Couples Counselling
Couples often struggle with communication issues, emotional disconnect, or conflicts that erode the foundation of their relationship. Mel provides couples counselling to help partners identify and address these issues, rebuild trust, and strengthen their emotional connection. This service is ideal for couples dealing with conflict, miscommunication, or contemplating separation.
2. Family Therapy
Family dynamics can be complicated, especially when conflicts arise between parents and children or among siblings. Mel offers family therapy to help resolve issues related to parenting, sibling rivalry, financial stress, or significant life transitions. This approach aims to improve communication within families and foster a healthier home environment.
3. Same-Sex Relationship Counselling
Mel provides inclusive counselling services for same-sex couples, addressing the unique challenges they may face. These sessions focus on fostering trust, improving communication, and helping partners navigate issues specific to their relationship.
4. Pre-Marriage Counselling
Mel works with couples preparing for marriage, helping them explore their expectations, address potential areas of conflict, and establish a strong foundation for their relationship. This proactive approach helps couples better understand each other and prepare for long-term commitment.
5. Affair Recovery Counselling
Rebuilding trust after infidelity is a difficult journey, but Mel helps couples navigate this process. Through affair recovery counselling, partners can address the hurt and betrayal while working to rebuild trust and emotional closeness.
6. Separation Mediation
For couples considering separation, Mel provides mediation services to help them navigate the emotional and practical challenges of separation. This service includes discussions on co-parenting, financial arrangements, and emotional closure.
7. Conflict Resolution Counselling
For couples experiencing recurring conflicts or communication breakdowns, conflict resolution counselling can help. Mel assists couples in identifying the root causes of their conflicts and developing healthier ways of interacting.
Counselling Methods Used by Mel Blair
In addition to specific relationship categories, Mel Blair uses various counselling methodologies tailored to the needs of each couple or family:
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): EFT is designed to help couples build emotional bounds by identifying and addressing negative emotional patterns. This method helps couples develop a deeper understanding of each other’s emotional needs and foster stronger connection.
- Gottman Method: The Gottman Method is a research-based approach that focuses on improving communication, managing conflict, and enhancing intimacy and respect in relationships. Mel uses this method to help couples develop the skills needed to maintain a healthy relationship.
- Imago Relationship Therapy: Imago Therapy helps couples understand how their childhood experiences affect their relationship. It encourages partners to recognise and heal their unmet childhood needs, transforming conflict into an opportunity for growth.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): CBT is used to address negative thought patterns and behaviours in relationships. This approach helps couples develop healthier ways of thinking and interacting, making it particularly useful for managing recurring conflicts.
The Counselling Process
1. Initial Individual Sessions:
Mel begins with individual 30-minute sessions with each partner. This allows her to understand their personal perspectives and emotional states before moving into joint sessions.
2. Joint Sessions:
After the individual sessions, Mel conducts joint counselling sessions to address the couple’s issues together. These sessions focus on improving communication, rebuilding trust, and developing strategies to resolve conflicts.
3. Flexible Format:
Counselling sessions can be conducted in person or via videoconference, offering flexibility for couples who may be located remotely or have scheduling constraints.
Meet Mel Blair
Mel Blair is a highly skilled counsellor specialising in child, youth, and family counselling. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Youth, Child, and Family Counselling from the University of Southern Queensland and is a certified Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher. Mel’s trauma-informed approach ensures that every session is sensitive to the unique emotional experiences of each client, creating a safe space for healing and growth. Her use of creative therapies such as art, mindfulness, and animal-assisted therapy helps clients express and process their emotions effectively. Mel often incorporates her therapy dog, Gypsy, into sessions to provide additional emotional support.
Book a Consultation today
If you are looking to improve communication, rebuild trust, or navigate relationship challenges, Mel Blair at Brisbane Livewell Clinic is here to help. Whether you’re dealing with emotional disconnect, recurring conflicts, or preparing for marriage, Mel offers a compassionate and tailored approach to relationship counselling. Book your first session today and start building a stronger, more connected relationship. Visit Brisbane Livewell Clinic or call our reception team to schedule an appointment.
FAQs
1. What is Couples Counselling?
Couples counselling helps partners work through conflicts, improve communication, and rebuild emotional bonds. Mel Blair provides a tailored approach based on each couple’s unique challenges.
2. How Does Family Therapy Work?
Family therapy involves working with all family members to address conflicts, improve communication, and foster a healthier family dynamic.
3. What Can We Expect in the First Session?
Mel will meet with each partner for 30 minutes individually to understand their perspectives. This is followed by joint sessions to address the issues together.
4. Can We Do Counselling via Videoconference?
Mel offers flexible counselling options, including in-person and videoconference sessions.
5. What Is the Gottman Method?
The Gottman Method focuses on improving communication, managing conflict, and enhancing intimacy and respect between partners.
6. How Does Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Work?
EFT helps couples identify negative emotional patterns and fosters deeper emotional connections by addressing these patterns head-on.
7. Can Counselling Help with Infidelity?
Mel offers affair recovery counselling to help couples rebuild trust and emotional closeness after infidelity.
8. What is Pre-Marriage Counselling?
Pre-marriage counselling helps couples explore their expectations, values, and potential areas of conflict, ensuring a strong foundation for their future together.
9. What Is Conflict Resolution Counselling?
Conflict resolution counselling helps couples identify the root causes of their conflicts and develop healthier ways of communicating and resolving issues.
10. What is Imago Relationship Therapy?
Imago Therapy helps partners understand how their childhood experiences influence their current relationship dynamics, offering an opportunity to heal and grow.
11. Is Same-Sex Relationship Counselling Available?
Mel provides inclusive relationship counselling for same-sex couples, addressing their unique challenges.
12. How Can Sex Therapy Help?
Sex therapy helps couples address intimacy issues that may be causing broader relationship problems, improving both emotional and physical connections.
13. How Long Does Relationship Counselling Take?
The duration of counselling varies depending on the complexity of the issues, with sessions typically offered weekly or fortnightly depending on the couple’s needs.
