Daina compassionately supports couples to rebuild trust: working with you to understand how, and why you may each be contributing to negative relationship patterns in your own particular ways, and guiding you towards building safe and respectful interactions, and deepening your connection.
She is interested in resilience and repair, inner-child work, and helping couples and individuals to safety explore how their life context, family and relationship histories, beliefs, and behaviours may be impacting their relationships today.
While some couples may feel ready to continue their journey together; others may decide to separate. Couples therapy may help these couples to go their own way with increased insight into the contributions they have brought to the relationship, which may prove a useful life-lesson going forward, and the beginning of deep healing.
If children are involved it is vital the separating couple improve their negative communication practices, and learn how to interact constructively in their new roles, to protect and sustain their children during this transition and beyond.
Daina is a Masters of Couples Counselling student in her final year of study at Swinburne University and Relationships Australia, and uses a collaborative person-centred approach to couple’s therapy. She is non-judgemental and empathetic and draws on emotionally focused, attachment, cognitive-behavioural and systemic approaches to help heal and build your relationship.
Daina has life experience working as a therapist with autistic children, managing small and medium business, and in the fine arts. She volunteers with a crisis support organisation, and enjoys yoga.