Couples Counselling Bendigo & Regional Victoria
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.
I moved to McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula in 2023, and still provide Couples Counselling to my Bendigo clients online using zoom.
I am an experienced couples counsellor, passionate about supporting couples from the country. From folks on the farm to professionals around town, let’s get your relationship back on track.
Couples Counselling Retreat
In-Person Couples Counselling at our Private McCrae Location
Couples from the country can now take advantage of my Couples Counselling Retreat here in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula. Also known as intensive marriage counselling’ – this style of therapy is a popular option for busy couples, parents and those who live further away.
Over 2 full days we work together to repair your relationship and strengthen your connection. The retreat is well suited to regional Victorians who can dedicate a weekend away to work on their relationship.
McCrae is located on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula. A quiet and relaxing spot to get away for a couple of days, rekindle your relationship, and spend some quality time together.
Travel times from Bendigo are around 2 and a half hours, and less if you are coming from Kyneton, Woodend, Macedon or Gisborne down the Calder highway.
Weekend appointments are available. Get in touch with Jacqui to talk about what’s going on for you and to check upcoming 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.
- Connect online with Jacqui via Zoom for convenient and effective couples counselling from the comfort of home.
- Repair your relationship with Jacqui at her private McCrae location. Just south of Melbourne.
- Longer 90 minute sessions help you achieve the breakthroughs you desire without being cut-short of time.
- Fast-track relationship repair with your 2-day couples counselling retreat... A popular option for busy couples, parents and country folks.
Get in Touch
Call Jacqui now for a free short chat about what’s going on for you, or let Jacqui give you a call by filling out the form below.
If Jacqui feels she can help you, you’ll be invited to book a 90 minute discovery session, with you and your partner.
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 Jacqui Help You?
For Couples in Distress
It’s time to get professional help.
Let’s put an end to your ongoing suffering. I help couples with multiple and complex problems. This includes…
Ongoing Conflict
Out-of-control arguments and escalating conflict is damaging to your relationship, and those around you, including children.
Broken Trust & Betrayal
Broken trust, lies and betrayal are particularly damaging for your relationship. It's no surprise infidelity is a leading cause of separation & divorce.
Negative Sentiment
Constantly seeing the negative in your partner and harbouring resentment toward them erodes the connection in your relationship. Left unchecked you will drift further apart and find it increasingly difficult to communicate and see eye to eye.
Broken Communication
Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness & Stonewalling are clear signs of broken communication. Known as the 'four horsemen' - they're especially destructive and will tear your relationship apart.
Severed Connection
Mismatched values, different goals, and a different life direction all lead to disconnection. With no passion and care, your relationship is disconnected. With no shared hopes and dreams to keep the relationship alive, there's little to look forward to but a life of unending misery.
Avoidant Behaviour
Avoiding the problems in your relationship is a heavy burden to carry and eventually wears you down. Depression, sadness, poor sleep and low energy are all common signs of carrying a burden. Many will seek comfort and solace outside the relationship, but the problems remain.
Lingering Resentment
Disturbed by lingering resentment of a past issue can feel like a sharp stone in your shoe. It's there every step of the way, and gnaws away at any joy and happiness in your life. Avoid it or distract yourself as much as you like, ongoing resentment can 'drive you crazy' and is detrimental to your mental health and quality of life.
Unrelenting Pressure & Stress
Stress and pressure from work, family, finances, children, and health issues to name a few all compound on a daily basis. The unrelenting pressure and stress takes a toll on your relationship. Left unmanaged, stress spills over as destructive patterns of behaviour, destabilising the relationship.
Unfulfilled Dreams & Desires
Frustration and unfulfilled dreams leave you feeling like life is passing you by. As the days and years roll by, your left feeling unfulfilled and running out of hope. As desperation and loneliness creep in, your relationship is at risk of being de-railed.
Repair Your Relationship
Turn your relationship around with effective couples therapy and be supported to save your marriage.
Reduce Conflict in Your Relationship
De-escalte conflict and manage your emotions. Process underlying issues calmly and welcome a new way of communicating.
Rebuild Trust & Support Each Other
Process infidelity, betrayal and broken trust in a safe space. Move through feelings of grief, shame & guilt toward forgiveness. Create a healthy space in your relationship with new standards to support each other, talk, empathise, forgive, understand and recover.
Cherish & Respect Each Other
Dissolve negative sentiment and release negative thoughts and feelings clouding your relationship. Break free from unhelpful patterns and behaviours suffocating your relationship. Invite positive sentiment into your relationship and see the 'good' in your partner more often. Feel closer, happier, accepted and loved.
Healthy Communication
It's crucial the 'four horseman' are eliminated from your relationship as soon as possible. In fact it's essential, for the healing work to begin. After slaying the four horseman, you'll discover how to have only healthy and respectful conversations, with a focus on feeling heard and being understood.
Create Warm Connection
Discover your shared values. Create new rituals of connection. Feel heard by your partner. Be valued, and support each other. Find common ground and know how to resolve tension before it becomes a problem.
Taking Responsibility
Empowerment comes through taking responsibility. Disrupt negative thought patterns, and retire old beliefs. Sharpen your character, identity, and find your reason to change and live in alignment with your empowering set of values to achieve peace, harmony & fulfilment in your relationship.
Find Forgiveness & Acceptance
Let go of the past and find forgiveness for peace and relationship repair. Create hope for the future and an inspiring life vision together based on new trust building behaviours.
Reduce Stress with Love & Kindness
Manage stress with love & kindness. Find healthy outlets and create boundaries to protect your relationship. Support each other and work together as a team to get through difficult times.
Fulfilment & Life Balance
Keep your relationship on track with a renewed sense of self-awareness & relational-awareness. Create a fulfilling vision for the future together and achieve a Life Balance that fulfils each others needs. Tune into each other's needs and explore ways to strengthen the love and bond you share.
Change is Just a Conversation Away
Client Success Stories
About Jacqui
Jacqui is a warm and compassionate Couples Counsellor with over 22 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
