Healing Together: Conjoint (Couples) and Family Counselling at Solidarity Therapy

Relationships can bring connection, comfort, and belonging. They can also bring misunderstandings, competing needs, and conversations that feel difficult to begin. Whether you’re navigating tension or hoping to strengthen an important connection, counselling offers space to explore how you relate to one another—and how you want to move forward.

What is conjoint counselling?

At Solidarity Therapy, conjoint counselling is counselling for two people. Those two people might be:

• Romantic partners

• Friends

• Siblings

• A parent and their adult child

• Two people connected through chosen family

  
  

When more than two people attend together, we classify this as family counselling. Family can include biological, blended, adoptive, and chosen family.

How can counselling help you as an individual?

Your needs and experiences matter, even when you attend counselling together. Conjoint and family counselling can help you:

• Understand yourself: Explore your feelings, needs, and the experiences that influence your relationships

• Find your voice: Practice expressing yourself more clearly, including when a conversation feels uncomfortable

• Develop boundaries: Identify what feels respectful and sustainable for you

• Recognize patterns: Notice how you respond to stress, disagreement, or feeling misunderstood

• Build understanding: Consider another person’s perspective while staying connected to your own values.

Working on relationships can also support individual well-being by exploring the connections between personal experiences and relationship dynamics.

How can conjoint counselling help your relationship?

Conjoint counselling provides a supported space for two people to work toward shared goals. Together, you can:

• Improve communication: Practice listening, asking questions, and expressing needs with greater clarity

• Explore recurring disagreements: Understand what sits beneath familiar arguments or moments of disconnection

• Strengthen connection: Make room for care, appreciation, and each person’s experience

• Work through change: Navigate shifting expectations, grief, caregiving, or other life transitions

• Explore repair: Discuss hurt, accountability, and what rebuilding trust might require

• Clarify next steps: Identify what each person needs and what moving forward could look like

  
  

How can family counselling help?

When several people are involved, family counselling creates space to explore how everyone’s needs and experiences interact. It can help families:

• Understand different perspectives: Make room for experiences across generations, identities, and family roles

• Discuss responsibilities: Explore expectations around parenting, caregiving, and everyday family life

• Recognize unhelpful patterns: Notice repeated interactions that leave people feeling unheard or disconnected

• Navigate transitions together: Work through changes such as becoming parents, blending families, or children growing into adulthood

• Build mutual support: Develop ways to respond to challenges with clearer communication and shared understanding

  
  

Your counsellor will explore both individual needs and the patterns within your relationships, helping you work toward goals that fit your circumstances.

Your identities and experiences belong in the conversation

Relationships exist within a wider world. Culture, racism, migration, gender, sexuality, and family expectations can influence how we connect, and what makes it difficult to feel understood.

We are currently accepting conjoint counselling clients from South Asian and other Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities, LGBTQIA+, and Neurodivergent folks.

At Solidarity Therapy, we aim to create space for your identities, values, and lived experiences. This may include exploring cultural or intergenerational expectations, experiences of discrimination, or what belonging means within your relationships.

For those who are neurodivergent, differences in communication, sensory needs, or processing time may also be relevant. You’re welcome to ask about a clinician whose experience fits your needs.

Connect with us! We offer in-person or virtual appointments.

You don’t need to wait for a relationship to reach a breaking point before seeking support. Counselling can begin with a shared wish to understand one another better.

Solidarity Therapy offers in-person appointments in Langley and virtual appointments.

Ready to make space for your relationship? Contact our team via email (clientcare@solidaritytherapy.ca) or text 604-313-6818 to explore conjoint or family counselling.