Couples Therapy
Couples therapy isn't for relationships that are falling apart. It's for relationships worth fighting for.
You’re sitting on the same couch, but the distance between you feels miles wide.
Every relationship has a story, and some chapters are simply harder to write than others.You may have come here because the distance between you has grown quietly over time. Or because something happened that shook the foundation of everything you built together. Or because you love each other — and that love alone no longer feels like enough to find your way back.
Wherever you're arriving from, you're not here by accident. Admitting something needs to change takes courage. Admitting something needs to change takes courage. Couples wait an average of six years of struggling before seeking help. You don't have to wait any longer.
Moving Beyond the Blame Cycle: Active, Evidence-Based Couples Therapy
Research tells us that conflict in relationships is rarely about what it appears to be about. Underneath the arguments about money, parenting, or distance is almost always the same question — are you there for me? When that question goes unanswered long enough, the patterns become the relationship.
Research also tells us that it takes five positive interactions to outweigh a single negative one. When couples are struggling, that ratio quietly flips — and the negative starts to define everything. The same arguments cycle endlessly. The same silences stretch longer. The same moments of reaching out go unanswered.
This is not a sign that your relationship is beyond repair. It is a sign that the patterns have become larger than the tools you currently have to address them.
That is exactly what couples therapy is designed to change. Couples counselling offers a structured, supported space to interrupt those patterns and build something different - together.
Our clinicians draw directly from the two most thoroughly researched relationship modalities in the world:
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The Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Focusing on disarming conflicting verbal communication, removing gridlocked barriers, and systematically rebuilding trust, commitment, and fondness.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Looking beneath surface-level anger to identify your couple "dance" (the pursue-withdraw loop), allowing you to safely express core attachment needs and heal deep emotional wounds.
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We won't sit in passive, silent head-nodding while you search for answers. Our practice brings an honest, engaged, and direct presence to the room—gently naming the hidden dynamics that are hard to see from the inside, while holding a space that remains warm, grounded, and non-judgmental.
The Collaborative Circle of Care: A Unified Approach
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A common roadblock in relationship counselling occurs when couples work uncovers deep, unhealed individual pain—such as trauma responses, adult ADHD loops, or intense emotional dysregulation. Ethically, the same clinician cannot see both partners individually while remaining an objective couples therapist.
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At Discover Your Path Psychotherapy, our multi-disciplinary team framework solves this friction point completely. With your explicit consent, our Registered Psychotherapists and Registered Social Workers can collaborate seamlessly behind the scenes. This allows one partner to focus on individual trauma processing or behavioral patterns with one associate, while the other partner receives dedicated individual support or parent coaching from another—all while remaining completely aligned with your overarching couples therapy goals.
Couples come to virtual relationship counselling navigating many intersecting challenges. Our practice provides dedicated, structured care for:
Focused Support for Complex Relational Realities
Communication & Connection
Infidelity & Betrayal
Addiction & Recovery
Intimacy & Emotional Connection
Breaking out of chronic defensive dynamics, repetitive misunderstandings, and the painful, heavy silences that quietly stretch between you over time.
Navigating the raw, non-linear trauma of a broken agreement, guiding both partners through safety stabilization, honest disclosures, and slowly reconstructing trust from the ground up.
Supporting partnerships as they move through the profound relational ripple effects of substance use or behavioral dependencies, while providing a secure space to navigate the parallel path of early recovery.
Moving intentionally past feeling like mere roommates to safely rekindle physical closeness, affectionate vulnerability, and genuine emotional warmth.
Parenting Conflicts
ADHD & Relationships
Grief & Child Loss
PTSD & Trauma
Aligning opposing parental styles, managing collective household burnout, and learning how to preserve your core partnership amidst the daily demands of raising children.
Untangling the common over-functioning and under-functioning dynamics that naturally occur when neurodiversity impacts a relationship, moving away from constant resentment and toward collaborative teamwork.
Holding an incredibly sacred, gentle space for partners enduring the devastating weight of profound bereavement, helping you navigate the distinct, non-linear ways each person processes loss so you do not drift apart in your pain.
Understanding how past developmental trauma, systemic injuries, or acute PTSD symptoms actively trigger protective somatic survival loops within your current partnership.
Offerings & Fees
Choosing the right couples therapist is an important step. This complimentary consultation is an opportunity to briefly connect, talk about what is bringing you in, and explore whether my approach feels aligned with the journey you want to take. Both partners are welcome and encouraged to be present.
$0 | Both partners required.Â
A dedicated time to slow down and look honestly at your patterns, communication, and connection. We identify the cycles keeping you stuck and begin developing new ways of responding to each other — with curiosity, respect, and care. My approach blends heartfelt presence with practical, evidence-based guidance.Â
$180 - $215 per session.Â
Some relational challenges benefit from exploring both shared and individual perspectives. In this format, we meet together as a couple, then each partner meets individually, and we reconvene to integrate insights and plan next steps. This structure is available after an initial couples session has been completed and both partners have agreed to the individual component.Â
$155 - $165 per session.
TELUS e-claims, Blue Cross, Veterans Affairs and Sunlife insurance direct billing available by request.Â
Every practitioner at our clinic brings a dedicated, relationally honest approach to one-on-one care. Read through our backgrounds below to see who feels like the right fit for your path.
Pamela Giarrizzo, RP | Owner
Relational, curious, direct, and honest. Active and engaged in the room—won't sit in silence or just nod and passively reflect. Providing care for individual adults navigating relationship/family systems, trauma-informed recovery, systemic grief and bereavement, adult ADHD coping strategies, and corporate or supervisor burnout. Deeply informed by couples therapy dynamics to map out protective nervous system layers.
Ritushaa Rajendram, RSW, MSW
Warm, collaborative, and deeply honest. Focused on helping you identify and unpack the embedded environmental loops keeping you stuck. Centering her practice on systemic family-of-origin stress, major life transitions, behavioral patterns, school-related anxieties, and workplace or academic burnout.Â
Renata Roma, PhD, RP (Qualifying)
Warm, structured, and deeply human. Emphasizes collaborative, step-by-step nervous system mapping to move out of fight-or-flight. Dedicated to helping clients manage acute anxiety, panic cycles, phobias, chronic worry, parental burnout, and caregiver exhaustion.
Samaha Sufyan, RP (Qualifying)
Steady, warm, and gently humorous. An active partner who works to help you build practical, concrete daily grounding skills. Advanced clinical focus on complex trauma processing, developmental trauma, severe emotional dysregulation, cultural transitions, immigration stress, and intergenerational family trauma.