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OUR SERVICES

Couples Therapy

Montréal • Québec • Ontario • Online

What is Couples Therapy?

Navigating ruptures. Rebuilding trust.

At Clinic Altera, we believe that healing in relationships is possible, even when things feel stuck. Our therapy offers a safe, trauma-informed, emotionally focused space where couples, families, and other relational configurations can repair ruptures, deepen connection, and grow resiliently together.

Flexible Formats

Weekly Couples Therapy

Ongoing weekly or biweekly sessions for consistent support.

Couples Intensives

Half-day, full-day, or custom intensive sessions for couples wanting deeper focused work quickly.

Ideal for:

Affairs / rupture repair
Premarital work
High conflict couples
Big life transitions
Couples traveling in

Couples therapy can help with:

LGBTQ+ Couples

Affirming relationship therapy that supports communication, attachment, intimacy, identity, and partnership within LGBTQ+ relationships.
BIPOC and Inter-racial Couples

Culturally responsive couples therapy that honours identity, family systems, communication differences, and the unique pressures interracial and BIPOC couples may face.
Ethical Non-Monogamy

Support for open relationships, polyamory, boundaries, jealousy, communication, trust, and creating agreements that fit your values.
Fertility Struggles and Loss

Compassionate care for couples navigating infertility, IVF, pregnancy loss, differing coping styles, and the strain these experiences can place on connection.
Grief

Therapy for couples facing bereavement, shared loss, anticipatory grief, or the ways grief can impact closeness and communication.
Parenthood

Support through the transition to parenthood, co-parenting stress, identity shifts, unequal labour, and staying connected while raising children.
Intimacy

Help rebuilding emotional and physical closeness, desire, vulnerability, affection, and a stronger sense of connection.
Infidelity

Structured support for couples processing betrayal, rebuilding trust, understanding patterns, and deciding the path forward together.
High Conflict Couples

Guidance for recurring arguments, defensiveness, shutdowns, emotional escalation, and learning healthier ways to repair conflict.
Seperation and Divorce

Support for couples navigating separation, discernment, respectful endings, co-parenting transitions, and healing after relationship change.
Attachment Styles

Couples therapy focused on understanding emotional patterns, unmet needs, fears of closeness or abandonment, and creating a more secure bond together.
Complex Trauma

Support for couples impacted by childhood trauma, relational wounds, nervous system reactivity, trust difficulties, and patterns rooted in past experiences.