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Marriage Therapy 

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Strengthen and Renew Your Marriage

 

Natalie offers an intensive, evidence-based Marriage Therapy program integrating:

  • Focus Marriage Therapy Method – world-renowned marriage therapy (Focus on the Family)

  • Gottman Method – evidence-based approach to relationship success

  • Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)

  • Bowen Family Systems Therapy

  • Solution-Focused Couples Therapy

 

Marriage Therapy Concepts Covered Include:

  • Understanding what a healthy marriage model looks like

  • Exploring safety in relationships

  • Identifying reactive cycles and how to respond effectively

  • Caring for ourselves when we’re dysregulated

  • Practicing heart talks vs work talks

  • Learning “no losers, win-win” problem solving

  • Breaking down walls of disconnection and rebuilding trust

  • Strengthening emotional and physical intimacy

  • Applying Bowen Family Systems Therapy principles to improve patterns across generations and strengthen relational functioning

 

Natalie is the first Australian to be trained as a Focus Marital Therapist and currently the only one delivering this integrated program in Australia.

 

Program Options & Fees (Face-to-Face on the Gold Coast Only)

  • One-Day Intensive – 7 hours: $1,400

  • Two-Day Intensive – 12 hours total (7 hours Day 1; 5 hours Day 2): $2,500

  • One-hour session at a time: $200

 

What’s Included:

  • Morning & afternoon teas (intensives only)

  • One-hour lunch break (self-catered; cafes & parks nearby)

  • Relationship assessment to guide therapy (Gottman Method)

  • Handouts, handbook & take-home gift

  • Email summary of sessions

 

Extra Benefits for Intensives:

  • Two discounted maintenance sessions: 60-min each, $170 (normally $200), online or face-to-face 

 

Booking & Payments

  • Intensives offered on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays

  • Full payment due 7 days before the session

  • Cancellation within 7 days: 50% of the fee payable

 

Travel Recommendations

  • Arrive at least one day prior to the session

  • Consider staying an extra day or two for reflection & relaxation

  • Local accommodation suggestions available in Varsity Lakes or Robina

 

Marriage Therapy Bookings:

Contact Natalie Daugherty to schedule your intensives or click here to book one session at a time

0412 121 580
natalie@backtobasicscounselling.com

 

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Natalie is Level 2 Focus Marital Therapy Trained
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Counselling space

Counselling Days:

Tuesdays, and Fri/Saturday Marriage Intensives 

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Address: 194 Varsity Parade - Varsity Lakes 

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Contact Number: 0412 121 580​

Email: natalie@backtobasicscounselling.com​​

​ABN: 61417571132

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