BUILDING IS THE REST
FINDING GREAT LOVE IS THE BEGINNING
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy in Wodonga and online across Australia. For love that goes beyond the fairytale.
“WE WERE TOLD THAT IF IT'S REAL, IT SHOULD BE EASY. THAT LOVE SHOULD JUST WORK”
It's the kindest lie we're ever sold, and the loneliest. Because when it gets hard, you assume something is wrong with you, or with them.
The strongest relationships aren't the ones that never struggle. They're the ones that learn how to build, on purpose, with skill, at every stage. That's the work, and it can be learned.
HI, I’M NATALIE,
A couples therapist and supervisor certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and a writer and speaker on how great love gets built. Based in Wodonga, working with couples online across Australia.
I work with couples the way I wish we were all taught to love: with both the rom-com and the research. The feeling and the method, together.
BEFORE FOREVER
PREPARE FOR THE MARRIAGE, NOT JUST THE WEDDING.
Before Forever is a way to build your marriage as carefully as you're planning the day. A playbook and a workshop you do together, at home, in your own time. It opens soon. Join the waitlist to be first to know, and I'll send you The Wedding Budget Conversation, my free guide to the first hard talk most engaged couples have.
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EVERY STAGE OF LOVE
You don’t need to wait until things fall apart. Couples come to me to get ready for marriage, to protect what’s good, to find their way back, and to repair.
WHERE ARE YOU?
YOU WANT MORE
It’s solid between you. Now you want to let each other in a little further.
YOU’VE DRIFTED
Life got busy, and somewhere along the way you lost each other.
SOMETHING’S BROKEN
Trust has been hurt, or the same fight keeps winning. It’s time to repair.
YOU’RE ENGAGED
You’re planning a wedding, and you want the marriage to be just as carefully made.
LOVE ISN’T LUCK
IT’S SOMETHING YOU CAN LEARN
Emotionally Focused Therapy is the approach behind all my work. It helps you see the pattern you get caught in, what’s underneath it, and how to reach for each other when it matters most.
THE BELIEFS BEHIND THE WORK
Before the sessions, the method, and the words, there are four beliefs. They are the foundation the whole practice is built on, and they shape every moment we spend together.
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Great love is made, not found. The falling in love is the easy part, the beginning of the story, not the whole of it. What lasts is what you build together, on purpose, and over time.
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You will be supported here, never shamed. There is always a reason beneath the behavior, and you will never be made to feel wrong for the ways you have tried to cope. This is a space to be met with warmth and understanding.
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Feeling and method, together. I believe in the magic of love and in the science of what makes it last. My work holds both the romance and the evidence, the heart and the method.
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Enter anywhere, return for life. Couples work is not only for crisis. You can begin when things are good, when you’ve drifted, or when something’s broken, and come back whenever you need to. Love has seasons, and all of them are worth tending.
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LOVE BETWEEN THE LINES
Building great love beyond the meet-cute. What I see from the therapist’s chair, what the research says, and what I’m still figuring out in my own relationship. Free to subscribe.