Couples & Marriage Counselling Gold Coast
Last updated:
Soul Counselling · Couples & Marriage · Gold Coast
Couples, marriage and relationship counselling on the Gold Coast
Whether you are stuck in the same argument, drifting quietly apart or trying to rebuild trust, a calm third person can help the two of you hear each other again. Christina Feyes is a Gold Coast counsellor with training in psychology, social work and human services. She sees couples in person by appointment, depending on venue and availability, anywhere from the Gold Coast to Tamborine Mountain, and online or by phone from anywhere in Australia. Her approach is clinical and intuitive, always impartial, and centred on steady healing rather than blame.
Book a free 15-minute assessment →What is couples counselling on the Gold Coast?
Couples counselling, also called marriage or relationship counselling, gives two people a calm, neutral space to be heard and to change the patterns that keep hurting. The names describe the same work: married, de facto, dating or about to commit, the focus is the relationship between you. Christina sees couples in person on the Gold Coast by appointment, or online and by phone, and one partner can start alone. It helps with communication breakdown, distance, broken trust and the argument you keep having. A free 15-minute assessment is the simplest way to begin.
Related: Separation and divorce counselling Gold Coast · How to stop having the same argument · Marriage vs couples counselling
A word of hope
Hope, even in uncertainty
Many couples arrive unsure whether there is still a way back.
If you are reading this, part of you is still hoping, and that matters. Couples often come in feeling like strangers and leave a session having really heard each other for the first time in a long while. Christina’s work is to give that hope somewhere safe to land: a calm space where both of you are heard, the old patterns finally make sense, and small changes start to feel possible again. You do not need to know how it ends to take the first step.
Take the first small step →
Five-star Google reviews
Couples keep saying the same thing.
In their own words, from their Google reviews.
“The insights we gained about our relationship dynamics have strengthened our bond and improved our communication substantially.”
“I'm feeling really good about myself, life and my marriage these days and am grateful to have found Christina to help me get to this point.”
“I respond differently to feelings of hopelessness and deal with conflict in my relationships a lot better now too. It’s an amazing feeling to look back and see how far I’ve come”
You might be here because
The reasons couples get in touch
Most people reach out well before things are at breaking point. These are some of the reasons couples, married or not, contact Christina.
- You are having the same argument on repeat and cannot find the way out of the loop.
- You have slowly drifted into housemates, polite but disconnected.
- Trust has been broken and you do not know whether it can be rebuilt.
- One of you is talking about separation and the other is not ready to give up.
- You are about to commit and want to start on solid ground.
- Your partner is not ready to come yet, but you want to start working on it.
A simpler healing path
Couples work does not have to be complicated
Most couples arrive tired of the same argument, not sure how they drifted, and hoping there is still a way through.
The real pattern
The surface fight is rarely the actual problem. Christina helps you both see the pattern underneath the arguments, the loop you keep landing in, so you can finally interrupt it instead of repeating it.
A safe space
Sessions are a calm, structured space where each of you can speak and be heard, not another round of the same fight. Nobody is put on trial and nobody has to win.
Together or solo
You can come as a couple, or one partner can begin alone. The free 15-minute assessment is where you work out which step actually fits your situation right now.
What it can help with
What couples counselling can help with
You do not have to be in crisis to come. Strained but not broken is often the best time to start.
The same argument
Understanding the cycle you keep falling into, and learning to step out of it before it escalates.
Growing apart
Reconnecting when work, kids and bills have turned you into co-managers of a household rather than partners.
Rebuilding trust
After an affair or a broken promise, careful work on whether and how trust can be rebuilt, without rushing or pretending.
Intimacy and closeness
Finding your way back to emotional and physical closeness when distance has quietly crept in.
Before commitment
Starting a marriage or a serious relationship on honest, solid ground, with the hard conversations had early.
Your own patterns
Working on your own when a partner will not come, when the same kind of relationship keeps repeating, or when a bond with family has become painful.
If you are weighing up whether to stay or part, separation and divorce counselling offers a clear, supported space to decide, and to do either with less damage.
Research often quoted in relationship work suggests couples carry their unhappiness for around six years, on average, from the first real sign of trouble before they reach out for support. In Queensland, the most recent national mental health study found that close to a quarter of people aged 16 to 85, about 23.7 percent, lived with a mental disorder in a single twelve month period, so the strain many couples feel is more common and less isolating than it seems.
Sources: The Gottman Institute; ABS National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, 2020 to 2022.Couples across the Gold Coast
Why Gold Coast couples reach out
So many Gold Coast couples relocated here from interstate or overseas, chasing the lifestyle, and now find themselves raising a family or facing hard seasons a long way from parents, old friends and the support that once held them steady. Add hospitality and tourism shift work or a FIFO roster pulling two people onto opposite schedules, plus real housing and cost-of-living pressure, and it is easy to feel like you are quietly struggling as a couple in the middle of paradise. None of that means anything is wrong with the two of you.
- You moved to the coast for a fresh start and now feel far from the family and friends who used to steady you.
- Shift work, hospitality hours or a FIFO roster means you keep passing each other rather than truly meeting.
- Money, rent and the cost of coastal living have turned into a recurring source of tension between you.
- On paper life looks good in a beautiful place, yet the connection between you has gone quiet.
Couples who want to work through this side by side in one room can arrange a Gold Coast session, booked around an available venue and both of your diaries. Partners living or working in different places can still do the work together over video or phone, from anywhere in Australia. You can also explore all Gold Coast counselling services.
Couples work that fits Gold Coast life
Support that works around your week, from the coast to Tamborine Mountain
Whether you are in Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads, Palm Beach, Robina, Coomera, Nerang or up in the Hinterland, the two of you can book a joint session by appointment, depending on venue and availability, or let sessions come to you online and by phone. Online, you can sit together on the one couch, or join separately from wherever the day has landed each of you.
For couples who have been together a long time, or who are rebuilding trust after a rupture, it can help to give the relationship time outside the family home, away from the children, the phones and the kitchen bench where the old arguments tend to start.
Christina works with the dynamic between the two of you and never takes a side, so neither partner walks away feeling ganged up on. When only one of you is ready, that person can quietly begin with the free 15-minute assessment, and nothing is ever forced on the other.
No pressure
You do not have to wait until you are both ready
If your partner is not ready yet, you can still start on your own. A relationship is a system, and it often shifts when just one person begins to move differently within it. Christina can help you see what is genuinely yours to carry, what belongs to the relationship, and what honestly needs to change.
Some of the couples who get the most from this work are the ones who were fairly sure it would not help. They simply took the free 15 minutes and let the conversation show them what was possible.
Start with the free 15 minutes →Go deeper
Read a little deeper before you decide
If you are still weighing things up, these articles go further into the patterns, the small repairs and the honest questions that come up when two people are trying to find their way back. Take what is useful and leave the rest.
- Rebuilding trust after betrayal
- When one partner won’t go to counselling
- Rebuilding intimacy in marriage
- FIFO and relationships: staying connected
No sign-up, just an honest read.
Quick questions
Before you book.
What is the difference between couples, marriage and relationship counselling?
Mostly the name. Marriage counselling and couples counselling describe the same work, two partners and the relationship between them, whether you are married, de facto or dating. Relationship counselling is a little broader: it also covers one person working on their own patterns, recovering after a breakup, or a strained bond with a parent, adult child or sibling. Christina offers all three, and the free 15-minute assessment is where you work out which fits your situation.
Do both of us need to attend the free assessment?
No. It is completely fine for just one of you to come to that first 15-minute conversation. Plenty of people reach out on their own because their partner is unsure, busy or not quite ready, and that is a perfectly normal place to begin. Christina can help you think through your next step either way, and if your partner wants to join later, there is always room for that when the time feels right for both of you.
What if only one of us is sure about this?
That is completely okay, and more common than you might think. You do not need matching levels of certainty to begin. If you are the one who is ready, you can start solo, and the way you show up in the relationship can quietly shift the dynamic between you. Christina will never push your partner to take part before they are ready. Many couples find that one person starting is exactly what opens the door for the other.
Is this only for couples in crisis?
Not at all. Most couples who reach out are not in crisis, they are just tired of the same argument, feeling disconnected, or navigating a big change like a move, a new baby, shift work or money stress. You do not need things to be at breaking point to benefit. In fact, coming in earlier, while there is still goodwill between you, often makes the work gentler and the progress quicker than waiting for years to pass.
Can counselling really save our marriage?
Many couples do find their way back, and counselling gives you the best chance to try. What it offers is a fair, skilled space to understand what has gone wrong and what you both still want, so repair has room to happen. No honest counsellor can guarantee how it ends, but you will not be facing it alone, and you will know you gave it a genuine go.
Where do sessions happen, in person or online?
Christina is Gold Coast based. For couples who want to share a room with her, joint sessions can be booked by appointment anywhere from the Gold Coast up to Tamborine Mountain, depending on venue and availability, and many couples find that having a counsellor physically present helps a difficult conversation slow down and stay steady. Online and phone sessions are just as available, from anywhere in Australia, which keeps things flexible around work, family and travel.
Can we join from two different locations, and can it work around shift work?
Yes. Alongside in-person appointments, Christina offers online and phone sessions, so the two of you can join from separate places, or even separate households, when work, rosters, travel or living apart for a while keep you from sharing a room. This suits Gold Coast couples juggling hospitality hours, tourism shifts or a FIFO schedule, where being in the same room at the same time is not always possible. Christina works with your reality rather than against it, and appointment times can be arranged to fit around the way your week actually runs.
Are you a psychologist?
No. Christina is a counsellor with training in psychology, social work and human services, and she does not diagnose or prescribe. For relationship work, counselling is the natural fit. If you specifically need a diagnosis or a Medicare rebate, a registered psychologist is the right path, and she will gladly point you there.
Is couples counselling right if there is violence or an acute crisis at home?
Couples counselling is relationship work, and it is not the right or safe setting for an acute crisis or for any situation involving family or domestic violence. If you or someone you love is in immediate danger, please call 000 straight away. Once safety is in place, Christina is glad to talk with you about what kind of support might genuinely help next.
What does it cost to find out if this is right for us?
Nothing. You can begin with a free 15-minute assessment, with no card and no obligation, so you can get a real feel for how Christina works before deciding anything. It is genuinely a nothing-to-lose first step. Just one of you is welcome to start, and there is no pressure to continue afterwards.
Start small
Start with one short, honest conversation
A free 15-minute assessment costs you nothing and asks for no card and no commitment, just a chance to talk it through. There is genuinely nothing to lose in finding out whether this is the right next step for the two of you.
Book a free 15-minute assessment