Couples Counselling Bendigo & Regional Victoria

with Jacqui Hogan

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Jacqui Hogan - Couples Counsellor - BASW, Dip PsyC, Gottman Lvl 3, RLT Lvl 3

Looking for Help in Your Relationship?

Couples Counselling Online

Safe & Convenient Couples Counselling from the Comfort of Home

Hi I’m Jacqui, and I help couples from all over Victoria, including Bendigo, where I used to live.

Now based in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula, I continue to support Bendigo clients and other regional Victorians with online couples counselling through Zoom.

As an experienced couples counsellor, I’m passionate about helping couples from the country. Whether you’re living on the farm or a professional in town. Together, we can get your relationship back on track with professional, compassionate support, all from the comfort of your own home.

Couples Counselling Retreat

In-Person Couples Counselling at our Private McCrae Location

For couples in the country looking for a more immersive experience, my Couples Counselling Retreat in McCrae is the perfect option. Also known as intensive marriage counselling, this approach is ideal for busy couples, parents, or those traveling from further away.

Over two full days, we’ll work together to repair your relationship, rebuild trust, and strengthen your connection. Regional Victorians often find this weekend retreat to be a transformative way to dedicate time to their relationship while enjoying the peaceful surroundings of the Mornington Peninsula.

McCrae is a relaxing coastal destination, offering the perfect setting to rekindle your connection while spending quality time together. Located just 2.5 hours from Bendigo—and even closer if you’re traveling from towns like Kyneton, Woodend, Macedon, or Gisborne—the retreat offers a convenient getaway to focus on your relationship.

Weekend appointments are available. Reach out to me today to discuss what’s happening in your relationship and to check retreat availability.

 

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No Barrier for Regional Victorians

‘Couples from the country’ can start Couples Counselling online, or see Jacqui in-person at her private McCrae location on the Mornington Peninsula.

Convenient Online Sessions

Connect with Jacqui via Zoom for effective couples counselling from the comfort of your home—perfect for busy schedules or rural locations.

In-Person Counselling

Repair your relationship at Jacqui’s peaceful and private McCrae location, just south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula.

Longer Sessions for Deeper Progress

With 90-minute sessions, there’s plenty of time to have your say and feel heard and understood. Providing the space you need to make real breakthroughs.

Couples Counselling Retreat

Fast track relationship repair with our 2-day couples counselling retreat. A top choice for busy couples, devoted parents and those from rural areas seeking an empowering transformational experience.

Get in Touch

Jacqueline Hogan Couples Counsellor - Mornington Peninsula
Jacqui Hogan - Couples Counsellor - BASW, Dip PsyC, Gottman Lvl 3, RLT Lvl3

Get in touch for a free short chat about what’s going on for you, or let me give you a call back by filling out the form below.

If I believe I can help, let’s get you booked into a 90 minute discovery session with me.

Your discovery session is a welcome relief. It’s a positive experience for most couples, and you’ll feel much more at ease, and hopeful for the future.

How Can I Help You?

For Couples Seeking Hope & Healing

It’s time to get professional help.

I help couples struggling with a range of challenges. Whether it’s ongoing conflict, broken trust, or feelings of hopelessness, these difficulties can feel heavy, but they don’t define your future.

Together, we’ll work to turn things around, restore your connection, and create a path toward a stronger, more fulfilling relationship.

The Challenges You Face

It’s natural for relationships to hit rough patches. You may be experiencing:

  • Constant Arguments: Conflict that spirals out of control, leaving you feeling unheard and exhausted.
  • Broken Trust: Betrayals or infidelity that have left you devastated and uncertain about the future.
  • Feeling Distant: Negative thoughts, resentment, and emotional disconnection that have created walls instead of bridges.
  • Communication Breakdowns: Misunderstandings or patterns of criticism and defensiveness. Or perhaps you or your partner withdraw to avoid conflict, but the silence and unresolved issues have created distance between you.
  • Unrelenting Stress: Financial pressures, work challenges, and family responsibilities that pile on, leaving little time for intimacy or connection.

These struggles are tough, but they don’t have to be the end of your story.

I work with couples every day, helping them through challenges, just like these.

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When love feels strained, know that hope and help are available.

Repair & Strengthen Your Relationship

Turn your relationship around with effective couples therapy and be supported to save your marriage.

Through compassionate and effective couples therapy, we’ll create a space for healing, understanding, and growth. Here’s what you can expect:

  • A New Way to Communicate: Learn how to de-escalate conflict, manage emotions, and truly listen to each other. Together, we’ll replace old patterns of criticism and defensiveness with meaningful conversations built on respect and understanding.
  • Restoring Trust and finding Forgiveness: Betrayal and broken trust can make you feel like there’s nowhere to turn, but moving forward and finding forgiveness is possible. We’ll work to process the grief, and create new standards of trust, laying the foundation for forgiveness, healing and empathy.
  • Deepening Your Connection: Discover your shared values, create new rituals of connection, and build a vision for a future you can both look forward to. Feel heard, supported, and truly valued by your partner again.
  • Releasing Resentment: Let go of the negativity weighing down your relationship. By inviting positive sentiment and kindness into your daily lives, you’ll begin to see your partner in a whole new light. Feel cherished, respected, and truly loved.
  • Strengthen Your Connection
    Together, we’ll work to reduce stress and create healthy habits and balance in your relationship. Whether it’s setting new, simple boundaries or practising kindness and compassion more often, you’ll build a thriving relationship that’s resilient to life’s challenges.
  • Creating Fulfilment and Meaning Together
    A healthy relationship is one where both partners feel seen, supported, and fulfilled. Through self-awareness and relational growth, you’ll craft a more meaningful life direction and build a rewarding relationship that meets both of your needs.
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Understand there is hope, and change is possible.

Change is Just a Conversation Away

Client Success Stories

A & P DD
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Attending Jacqueline Hogan's "Save Our Marriage" retreat was a truly transformative experience for my partner and me. We were at a critical point in our relationship, but Jacqueline's compassionate and insightful approach provided us with the tools and perspective we needed to reconnect. She created a safe space for open communication, allowing us to address our challenges and rediscover the love that brought us together. We left the retreat feeling more connected and with a clear path forward. I highly recommend this retreat to any couple looking to strengthen their relationship and create a marriage 2.0!
Michelle
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My partner and I were in a very dark place before we met Jacqui, I was not confident we could find a way back. I’m so grateful to have found Jacqui. With her support, professionalism and the arsenal of tools she has provided for us, our relationship is now better than it has been for a decade.
G C
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I am so glad that we chose Jacqueline to be our relationship counsellor. Just when it seemed to my wife and I that there was no way forward together, thankfully one of the few things that we agreed upon was choosing Jacqueline from all of the counselling services that we could see online. The Save My Marriage program did exactly that for us. We are communicating like we never had in the past, and we have restored intimacy, love, and trust to our relationship. I feel we are on solid foundations now, and we have both learned to forgive, and how to become better partners.
Dr Janine ArnoldClient Review
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Working with Jacqui was very rewarding for me. I am now in control of my life, and I can believe in myself again. I was able to develop an excellent rapport with Jacqui, I would definitely recommend her to others.
Sara Newman
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Jacqueline was highly professional, experienced, caring, positive and knowledgeable in my experience. She provided easy to follow tools and advice to both of us for communicating in a better way to improve our relationship, and space to do so while being considerate of our emotional well-being too. It feels scary and emotional at times but also worth doing the work, I valued her honesty and intent on a good outcome, and trust in her abilities to help couples during difficult times in their relationship.
Rachael CollinsClient Review
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I would highly recommend Jacqui. Her knowledge and tools helped us mend and save our marriage when we were stuck and thought there was little hope of recovering. We committed to her step by step program that we worked through together; Which taught us to communicate and work through our issues.
Simon Carter
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Most Excellent!
ConfidentialClient Review
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We came in feeling hopeless and preparing for divorce and left with hope.
Kate KoopmansClient Review
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I went off the tracks a few times and nearly crashed but with the tools provided in the program, I used those to avoid crashing and steered my way back onto the track.
ConfidentialClient Review
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By the 12th appointment it was really clear why Jacqui structures the program the way she has. We did the majority of our sessions via Zoom calls, this worked really well for us with young kids and having a distance to travel to get to Bendigo. The program is very confronting and you learn a lot about yourself and your partner, but Jacqui is very supportive and adds cheeky humour to lighten the mood along the way. Our marriage is still not perfect, but we are getting there and the tools and techniques we learnt throughout the program will be with us for life. For this, I thank you Jacqui and would recommend you to anyone of any age.
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"Thank you so much for the affirmation, I love it and will use it everyday from now on... With her and yourself in my corner, I’m sure I can keep progressing to be the person I want to be and that my family deserve. Thanks again Jacqui, you’re a legend."
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"Thank goodness I found you. You have done more for me than any counsellor I’ve ever been to before."
A FClient Feedback
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"Our communication has been great! Conversations have been enjoyable and [husband] is really enjoying the deep breathing exercises and meditation."
ConfidentialClient Feedback
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"I think we are making progress as we have talked a lot more openly about this recent issue and moved on a lot quicker than we would have in the past. I had a lot of self awareness around my responses and reactions and have not punished him for the mistake. I’m feeling much better this morning."
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About Jacqui

Jacqui is a warm and compassionate Couples Counsellor with over 25 years of counselling experience. Jacqui tailors her approach to your needs and preferred learning style.

Jacqui draws upon a lifetime of experience and specialist training. Her most significant Couples Counselling related training includes:

  • Gottman Therapy – Level 3
  • Relational Life Therapy, Terry Real – Level 3
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy – Esther Perel
  • Treating Affairs & Trauma – Gottman Institute
  • Multi-generational Trauma: Treating the Past to Heal the Present – Terry Real, Relational Life Institute
  • Working with Infidelity and Making Love Work – Terry Real, Relational Life Institute
  • The Relational Brain – Terry Real & Julianne Shore, Relational Life Institute
  • Staying in Love – The Art of Fierce Intimacy, Terry Real, Relational Life Institute
  • Grandiose Women and Shut Down Men – Terry Real, Relational Life Institute


Formal education

  • Bachelor of Social Work (BASW) – Latrobe University
  • Diploma of Counselling Psychology – Ampersand Australia, 2009

My Professional Memberships

Gottman Method Couples Therapy - Jacqueline Hogan - Approved Member
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Jacqui loves her new location in McCrae, on the Mornington Peninsula.