Couples Counselling
Every relationship is unique and needs an empathetic and careful, context-driven approach.
What Can Couples Counselling Help With?
Building and maintaining a healthy relationship requires commitment, understanding, and effective communication. Even the strongest couples can face challenges that feel overwhelming. We provide compassionate couples therapy virtually, offering guidance and support to help you navigate these difficulties.
Led by experienced therapist Calvin Lam, our counselling services create a safe space for open and honest dialogue. Whether addressing communication breakdowns, trust issues, or differing life goals, we use evidence-based approaches to help couples identify the root of their challenges, develop actionable strategies, and rebuild their connection with renewed understanding and respect.
We also specialize in marriage counselling, tailored to meet the unique needs of married and committed partners. Whether you’re newlyweds or have been together for decades, our goal is to foster growth, healing, and lasting connection at any stage of your relationship.
Creating Mutual Goals
Emotional Disconnect
Infidelity
Intimacy Issues
Avoidance
Betrayal
Communication Issues
Conflict Management
Life Changes
Loss, Grief, or Mourning
Marriage Preparation
Relationship Enrichment
Why Choose Oasis of Hope?
Experienced and Compassionate:
Calvin is not only highly trained in couples counselling techniques but also an empathetic listener who genuinely cares about your relationship’s success.
Focused on Long-Term Success:
Our goal is not just to address immediate issues but to equip you with tools and insights for a healthy, long-term relationship. We’re here to help you cultivate lasting harmony and growth.
Pricing
Our fees range from $100-$250 per hour and are eligible for insurance coverage under most extended health care benefit plans. We also offer a sliding scale affordable therapy rate on a case-by-case basis to make therapy accessible to as many people as possible.
We believe that it is important to be transparent about our therapy pricing and where our clients’ hard earned therapy dollars go.
Hope
We believe that there is hope in every step of your journey. Even though you might be coming into therapy believing that you are broken or damaged, we know that your circumstances and struggles do not define you. Restoration and healing are not beyond you! We will work together to get you back to where you deserve to be.
Commitment to Diversity
Regardless of who you are, we are here for you. We honour individuality and are committed to being open, inclusive, understanding, and supportive of people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, orientations, identities, faiths, preferences, lifestyles, and experiences. We believe that our differences and our uniqueness bring a richness to our shared humanity.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Cost of Practicing – This is the “behind the scenes,” not particularly clinically relevant stuff. It includes things like professional licensing and registration fees, membership fees, insurance costs, virtual platform costs, etc. Approximately 30% of a client’s payment goes towards these aspects of operating a practice.
Growing and Expanding the Practice – We want to make therapy accessible to anyone who needs it. This means increasing the scope of our practice (geographically, range of service, expanding our staff and support team, etc.) and engaging in promotion and advertising. Think: pay it forward! Approximately 18% of a client’s payment goes towards current and future growth.
Continuing Education – By broadening and deepening my skill set, continuing education helps me become a better therapist and provide the best possible care that I can to my clients. The College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario requires us to complete a certain amount of continuing education each year. Approximately 20% of a client’s payment goes towards continuing education.
Making a Living – This is the personal part that allows me to buy groceries, visit my barber, partake in self-care, and take my dog to the vet. Approximately 32% of a client’s payment goes towards keeping me and my loved ones housed, fed, and happy.
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It can help with lots of things like feeling anxious, sad, or stressed out, dealing with big life changes, or improving relationships. Whatever you’re facing, we’re here to help you through it.
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It really depends on what you need. Some people come once a week, others more or less often. We’ll work together to figure out what’s best for you.
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Yes, absolutely. What we talk about in sessions stays between us, unless there’s an urgent safety concern. Your privacy is super important to us.
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That’s completely normal. It can be scary to start something new, especially therapy. We promise to make it as easy and comfortable for you as possible, helping you to settle in at your own pace.
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If something in your life is making you unhappy or uncomfortable and it’s hard to handle it on your own, then therapy might be helpful. If you’re not sure, just get in touch and we can talk about whether it might be right for you.