When two people understand each other, they move forward together.
Couples counseling provides a safe space to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen the relationship. It helps partners understand each other better, express their needs and emotions, and build a more harmonious and fulfilling relationship.
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Why should couples see a psychologist?
This support helps partners improve communication, manage conflicts, and strengthen their emotional connection. It provides a safe space to overcome difficulties, express needs, and align expectations, helping to prevent breakups and strengthen the relationship.
What do we work on during couples counseling sessions?
In a relationship, you can work on yourself for a long time, but it is often when you are in contact with the other person that difficulties arise.
The couple's space then becomes a valuable arena for exploring issues of trust, security, intimacy, desire, pleasure, and time spent together.
Séverine offers support to help you communicate better, understand how you each function, and restore meaning to your relationship and underlying patterns. Together, you will shed light on recurring conflicts, "relationship dances," and repetitive mechanisms in order to develop genuine relational and emotional intelligence.
Through practical tools derived from the Imago approach, positive couples therapy, psychoeducation, and mediation, you will learn to manage avoidance and reactivity, reconnect with tenderness and affection beyond sexuality, and explore the languages of love and communication—including touch.
This space can breathe new life into your relationship, helping you to work as a team, build a loving and solid partnership, weather crises and life transitions, and rediscover your connection, your shared dreams, and peace of mind. And when necessary, it can also provide support for a separation that is conducted with kindness and respect.
Support with Séverine Murner
Séverine, FSP psychologist, supports you using a variety of approaches:
- IMAGO relationship therapy
- Positive marital therapy
- Emotional therapy
Follow-up is adapted to your pace, your situation and the age of your relationship.
The relationship is a magnificent space for growth, a place where you can evolve and grow. Séverine guides you in this discovery, so you can rediscover complicity, breathe new life into your relationship, understand each other better and increase quality time. She guides you between theory and gentle exercises, in an ethical, respectful and caring way.
What is the IMAGO method?
Created by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, it aims to improve communication by teaching partners to express their needs with empathy and to listen actively.
Imago couple therapy therefore focuses on deep connection and empathic listening between partners. This method encourages each member of the couple to actively listen to the other, validate their emotions, and respond in a caring way, creating a safe space to express their needs. By reinforcing this listening and mutual understanding, the Imago method enables the couple to reconnect emotionally and heal past wounds together.
How does a session using the Imago method work?
- Non-judgmental welcome
- Dialogue on individual requirements
- Defining objectives
- Proposed follow-up approaches
Sessions can be tailored to suit individual needs and desires. A session can be done alone, as a couple or alternately.
The number of sessions can be adjusted according to your time, budget, desires, and needs (to be determined during your first few sessions).
Why "Couples Psychology" and not "Couples Therapy"?
The term "couples therapy" is sometimes used in everyday language, but in the Swiss professional context it can refer to a form of psychotherapy, which requires specific postgraduate training and, depending on the situation, a cantonal license to practice.
Our rates for couples therapy
(subscription valid for 1 year)
| Session | Duration | Rates |
|---|---|---|
| Couples session | 1 session lasting 1 hour and 30 minutes | CHF 220 |
| A private session | 1 session lasting 1 hour | CHF 150 |
FAQ – Couples Therapy
Yes, it's a safe space where you can freely express your emotions.
Some supplemental health insurance plans cover part of the cost of the sessions.
Yes, you are free to pause or resume the tracking whenever you like.
Not at all. You can also seek counseling to get to know yourself better, improve your life, or prevent feelings of unease.
It depends on your needs. Some people come in occasionally, while others come in regularly.
Yes, psychologists are bound by professional confidentiality.
No, you talk about what you think is important and useful.
A psychologist provides support and guidance. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor (and can prescribe medication).
Starting in childhood. There are specific approaches for children, teenagers, adults, and seniors.
