Relationship & Marriage Counselling Perth

Yes, eight rooms north of the river: Carine, Gwelup and Scarborough toward the northern beaches, Ellenbrook in the north-east, Morley, Menora, Mount Hawthorn and North Perth closer in. Couples from Joondalup and the far northern corridor typically use Carine or Gwelup, or work with our practitioners online – tell us your suburb and how far you’ll travel, and we’ll match from there. Appointments are usually available within a week.

Yes. South of the river our practitioners are at Fremantle and Winthrop, covering the southern suburbs down toward Rockingham, with Claremont and Subiaco serving the western suburbs. Mandurah couples work with these rooms or online. Some of our Perth clinics also run after-hours and Saturday sessions.

Yes – through our Perth rooms and online sessions that reach anywhere in Western Australia. For FIFO couples, we match you with practitioners who work around swing rosters: sessions online from site or from home, scheduling that follows the roster rather than fighting it, and counsellors who know the particular strain a two-weeks-away rhythm puts on a relationship.

That strain is real and it’s common – long absences, compressed time together, and the same argument restarting every fly-in. It’s some of the most familiar territory our WA practitioners work in.

Yes. Many of our Perth practitioners hold evening slots, and some rooms run Saturday sessions – which for most couples is the only time you can both realistically be there. Tell us the times that genuinely work when you enquire and we will match you to a practitioner with that availability, rather than sending you a schedule to squeeze into.

Our Perth practitioners typically charge between $150 and $300 for a 50-minute session, with the CBD and Subiaco rooms toward the higher end. Each therapist sets their own fee and it appears on their profile, so you can weigh it up before committing to anything. The matching service itself is free. See our Fees and Rebates page for the full detail.

If you’re with HBF or another fund and your extras include psychology or counselling, rebates should apply to sessions with our Perth practitioners – check your level of cover with a quick call, since it varies by policy and funds won’t tell us on your behalf.

Medicare is narrower: it doesn’t cover counselling where the relationship is the client. But if one of you has a Mental Health Treatment Plan from your GP for your own anxiety, stress or low mood, individual sessions with one of our Perth psychologists attract a rebate. If claiming matters, tell us when you enquire and we’ll match you with a psychologist from the start.

Two things: couples-specific training, and enough experience to have seen your situation before. Most therapists are trained for individual work; couples counselling is a different craft, and every counsellor and psychologist in our Perth network is Hart Centre Certified – vetted for both before we refer a single client.

Then there’s fit, which is the part a directory can’t do. When you enquire we ask what’s actually happening – the affair, the FIFO strain, the silence – and match you with the Perth practitioner best placed for it, backed by our HartMatch™ Guarantee: if the first match isn’t right, we rematch you and cover the next session.

Yes. Our Perth network includes practitioners with specific training and experience in same-sex, non-monogamous and gender-diverse relationships, so the work starts with your actual relationship rather than an explanation of it. Say so when you enquire and we will factor it into the match.

We can match you with Perth practitioners experienced in working with couples for whom faith matters – Catholic, Christian or otherwise – who will work respectfully within that framework rather than around it. Tell us when you enquire and it becomes part of the match, the same way personality and location do.

Yes, several of our Perth practitioners run our Pre-Marriage Insight Program – structured sessions covering money, conflict styles, family expectations, sex, and the assumptions you each hold about children before they collide. Couples who do this treat it as insurance, not a sign of trouble.

You can. Our Perth network includes psychologists and specialist relationship counsellors, vetted to the same standard for couples work. On rebates, one thing to know: a Mental Health Treatment Plan covers individual sessions with a psychologist for your own mental health, not couple sessions – so if one of you plans to use a plan for individual work alongside the joint sessions, mention it up front and we’ll match you with a psychologist.

Completely, and it doesn’t mean your relationship has failed. Almost every couple who sits down in one of our Perth rooms was nervous on the way in – about being judged, about what might get said, about whether coming at all means something is broken. Mostly it means you’ve noticed a pattern you can’t shift on your own, which describes most patterns.

Counselling works more like maintenance than a verdict. The couples we see do best are rarely the ones with the smallest problems – they’re the ones who came while there was still plenty left to protect.

About 50 minutes: the counsellor hears each of you out, asks what brought you in, and starts mapping the pattern between you rather than refereeing it. Nobody is put on trial, and you set the pace on the hard topics.

Nearly every couple arrives with one partner who pushed for it and one who came warily – our practitioners see that every week and know how to work with it. You can also start alone; many of our Perth associates see one partner first, and if you’re on a roster, online sessions mean the work doesn’t stop when you fly out.

Turn up consistently, say the true thing rather than the safe thing, and treat the space between sessions as part of the work – that’s where the pattern actually changes. Your counsellor will give you things to notice and practise, and couples who do them move noticeably faster than couples who don’t.

We also give every couple who books our complimentary StartStrong toolkit – a self-reflection guide built by Hart for your first session: what to expect, why therapeutic fit matters so much, and reflection questions to help you walk in knowing what you want from it. It’s yours when you book, before you’ve sat down with anyone.

Walking into a room where you expect to be the accused is a hard ask, and your therapist knows it. Couples counselling is not a courtroom: there’s no judge, no verdict, and no session where one of you is convicted. Our Perth practitioners work on a simple principle – the pattern is the problem, not either person. Blame is usually the surface layer of something else (hurt, fear, feeling unseen), and a skilled therapist moves the conversation below it fast, for both of you. You will not be ganged up on. If anything, most people leave the first session surprised by how balanced the room felt – including the partner who arrived certain they’d be blamed.