Couples Counselling Near Melbourne

Repair Your Relationship with Jacqueline Hogan

Supporting Couples Across the Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne, and Beyond.

Online | In-Person | Retreats

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

Specialist in Couples Counselling

With more than 25 years’ counselling experience, I’ve been specialising in helping couples since 2016. I provide practical, compassionate support to help couples rebuild trust, communicate kindly, and repair their relationship.

Looking for In-Person Couples Counselling Near Melbourne?

Couples can work with me online or in person from my private therapy space in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula, within easy reach of Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.

Couples appreciate the calm, private setting and beautiful bay views, which help create a welcoming environment for reconnection.

I also offer weekend sessions and private couples retreats, giving you focused time away from everyday pressures to work more deeply on your relationship.

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Private & comfortable counselling space

For Couples Drifting Apart

Let’s turn the tide and rebuild your connection.

With compassionate support and practical tools, I help couples work through difficult challenges and create a stronger, more fulfilling relationship.

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"When nothing changes... Nothing changes..."

You may be experiencing:

  • Ongoing Arguments: Recurring conflict that leaves you feeling unheard and exhausted. 
  • Broken Trust: Betrayal or infidelity that has left you heartbroken and uncertain about the future.
  • Feeling Distant: Negative thoughts, resentment and emotional disconnection can create walls and barriers instead of bridges.
  • Communication Struggles: Misunderstandings or patterns of criticism and defensiveness can make it difficult to talk things through. Perhaps you or your partner withdraws to avoid conflict, but the silence and unresolved issues create further distance between you.
  • Rising Pressure and Stress: Financial pressures, work challenges and family responsibilities can pile up, leaving little time or energy for intimacy and connection.

These are just some of the challenges couples face, but they don’t have to define the future of your relationship.

I work with couples every day who are facing struggles like these.

With the right support, it’s possible to understand what’s happening, change unhelpful patterns and begin repairing your relationship and rebuilding your connection.

Repair and Strengthen Your Relationship

Turn your relationship around with effective couples therapy.

Feel heard, rebuild your connection and begin a more hopeful chapter together.

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Understand there is hope, and change is possible.

What we might work on together:

  • Discover a Better Way to Communicate: Learn to de-escalate conflict, manage emotions and listen to each other with greater respect and understanding.
  • Restore Trust and Find Forgiveness: Process hurt and betrayal sensitively, establish new standards of trust and create a foundation for forgiveness, healing and empathy.
  • Deepen Your Connection: Reconnect through shared values, meaningful rituals of connection, and create an inspiring vision for your future together.
  • Release Resentment: Let go of lingering negativity and invite more kindness, appreciation and positive sentiment into your daily lives. Feel cherished, respected, and truly loved.
  • Strengthen Your Relationship: Reduce stress, create healthier boundaries and build habits that help your relationship remain resilient.
  • Create Fulfilment and Meaning Together: Build a relationship where you both feel seen, supported and fulfilled while creating a shared direction for your future.

The couples who make the most progress are usually the ones who commit to the process and practise what they learn between sessions. I’ve designed my Save My Marriage Program to help you do just that, with practical tools, clear structure and support along the way.

What Real Couples Have Shared

A & P DD
★★★★★
Google Review
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
★★★★★
Google Review
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
★★★★★
Google Review
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
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
★★★★★
Google Review
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
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
★★★★★
Google Review
Most Excellent!
ConfidentialClient Review
We came in feeling hopeless and preparing for divorce and left with hope.
Kate KoopmansClient Review
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
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.
A LClient Feedback
"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."
A DClient Feedback
"Thank goodness I found you. You have done more for me than any counsellor I’ve ever been to before."
A FClient Feedback
"Our communication has been great! Conversations have been enjoyable and [husband] is really enjoying the deep breathing exercises and meditation."
ConfidentialClient Feedback
"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."

Get in Touch with Jacqui

Start with a Free Chat or Book Your Initial Session

Call Jacqui for a brief, confidential chat, or leave your details and a short message using the form below to request a callback.

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

Send Jacqui a Message

Complete the private form below and I’ll be in touch – usually within a few hours, or by the end of the day.

What Happens Next

After our chat, if I feel I can help you and we’re a good fit, we can arrange your 90-minute initial session.

This session is for you and your partner. Most couples find it a welcome relief, providing much-needed clarity and renewed hope about the options and next steps available.

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Jacqui in McCrae, on the Mornington Peninsula
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About Jacqui Hogan

Jacqui is a warm and compassionate couples counsellor with more than 25 years of counselling experience, including 10 years specialising in couples counselling.

Based in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula, Jacqui supports couples online, in person, and through private couples counselling retreats.

Her approach is practical, empathetic and tailored to each couple’s needs. Jacqui draws on advanced training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Relational Life Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, trauma-informed practice and infidelity recovery.

Formal qualifications
Bachelor of Social Work — La Trobe University
Diploma of Counselling Psychology — Ampersand Australia, 2009

Professional memberships
Gottman Relationship Checkup Approved Member
Australian Association of Social Workers

Thanks for Your Message

I’ve received your message and will get back to you as soon as I can – usually within a couple of hours, or later in the day if I’m in session with clients.

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Kind regards, Jacqui