Couples Counselling Near Melbourne

Repair Your Relationship with Jacqueline Hogan

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

In-Person | Online | Retreats

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

Specialist in Couples Counselling

Looking for In-Person Couples Counselling Near Melbourne?

In addition to online couples counselling, I offer warm and professional couples counselling from my private therapy space in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula – less than an hour from Melbourne.

Couples love the calm and welcoming atmosphere, complete with beautiful bay views that help set the tone for reconnection.

I also offer weekend sessions and retreats, perfect if you’re after a peaceful and convenient break from the city to repair your relationship.

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Private & comfortable counselling space

For Couples Drifting Apart

Let’s turn the tide and get love flowing in the right direction again.

With compassionate support and practical tools, I help couples navigate even the most complex challenges. Together, we’ll work to repair and rebuild your connection to create a stronger, more fulfilling relationship by addressing issues such as…

  • 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 nothing changes... Nothing changes..."

Repair Your Relationship

Turn your relationship around with effective couples therapy and save your relationship from further harm.

Working together, feel heard and begin a new chapter in your relationship:

  • Discover A Better 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.
  • Restore Trust and find 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.
  • Deepen 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.
  • Release 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.
  • Create 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.

Get in Touch with Jacqui

Start couples counselling online, or choose to see me in person at my peaceful McCrae location on the Mornington Peninsula – a short drive from Melbourne.

The first step is to get in touch, and let me know what’s going for you.

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

What's Going on For You?

Call Jacqui now for a free short chat about what’s going on for you, or request a callback using 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.

Let Jacqui Call You Back

Client Success Stories

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."

About Jacqui Hogan - Specialist in Marriage & Couples Counselling

Jacqui is a warm and compassionate Couples Counsellor with over 25 years of counselling experience – the last 8 dedicated to helping couples.

Jacqui tailors her approach to your unique relationship needs and preferred ways of learning and connecting.

Drawing on both personal experience and specialist training, she offers practical, empathetic support to help couples rebuild trust, deepen emotional connection, and create stronger, healthier relationships.

Specialist Training in Couples Therapy

  • 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.

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