Couples Counselling Gold Coast
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Soul Counselling · Couples Sessions · Gold Coast
Find your way back to each other on the Gold Coast
Christina Feyes is a Gold Coast based counsellor with training in psychology, social work and human services, and she works with couples across the coast and all of Australia online and by phone. Her approach is both clinical and intuitive, always impartial, and centred on quiet, steady healing rather than blame.
Book a free 15-minute assessment →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.
Five-star Google reviews
Couples keep saying the same thing.
A few sessions in, most couples say the dynamic they couldn’t shift on their own has started to move.
“After a few couple’s sessions with my fiancé, I’m thoroughly impressed with Christina’s intuitive abilities. Her unique approach has been transformative for both of us.”
“The session created real change for me. I felt the shifts straight away — and interestingly my partner, who wasn’t in the session, also experienced an energetic shift later that day.”
“I deal with conflict in my relationships a lot better now. It’s an amazing feeling to look back and see how far I’ve come.”
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.
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.
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Read a little deeper before you decide
If you are still weighing things up, our couples blog goes further into the patterns, the small repairs and the honest questions that come up when two people are trying to find their way back. It is a gentle, no-pressure way to get a feel for how Christina thinks and works. Take what is useful and leave the rest.
Read the couples counselling blogNo sign-up, just an honest read.
Quick questions
Before you book.
Is couples counselling expensive?
There is no fee to find out whether this is right for you. 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, and there is no pressure to continue afterwards. Many couples simply value being able to test the water first, on their own terms, before committing time or energy to the work.
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.
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 healing quicker than waiting for years to pass.
Are sessions online, and is Christina really Gold Coast based?
Christina is genuinely local, with a base in Southport on the Gold Coast, so she understands the rhythms and pressures of coastal life first hand. That said, sessions are held primarily online by video and by phone, which keeps things flexible around work, family and travel. You get the reassurance of a counsellor who knows the region, with the convenience of meeting from home rather than sitting in traffic or a waiting room.
Can we join from two different locations, and can it work around shift work?
Yes. Because sessions run online and by phone, the two of you can join from separate places when work, rosters or travel keep you apart. 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.
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 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. For confidential support and advice around family and domestic violence, you can contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 at any time. Once safety is in place, Christina is glad to talk with you about what kind of support might genuinely help next.
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.
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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.
Sessions are held online and by phone across the Gold Coast and all of Australia. You can also explore all Gold Coast counselling services.
Couples work that fits Gold Coast life
Support that works around your week, from Southport to the Hinterland
Whether you are in Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Burleigh Heads, Palm Beach, Robina, Coomera, Nerang or up in the Hinterland, sessions come to you online and by phone. You can sit together on the one couch, or join separately from wherever the day has landed each of you.
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.