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Relationship Counselling helps couples enrich their relationship, creating greater harmony and encouraging the deepening of their intimacy and shared bond.

Love is the most profound emotion known to human beings. For most people, romantic relationships are the most meaningful element in their lives. But the ability to have a healthy, loving relationship is not innate. Almost all of us have experienced a failed relationship, and most of us have to work consciously to master the skills necessary to make them flourish. The good news is that with effort and perseverance, you can learn what you need to know to make your relationship last. My counselling practice incorporates specialist skills in Relationship Counselling. It is inspiring to work with couples who are committed to seeking more fulfilling relationships. Sometimes clients struggle with identifying their emotions and feelings, or communication becomes defensive and critical, which is damaging to a couples relationship. Based on the latest empirical research, my approach to Relationship Counselling supports couples to enhance their relationship, provides strategies to overcome and appreciate differences, and promotes greater harmony that encourages the deepening of their intimacy and shared bond. My training in Holistic Kinesiology provides a valuable tool to support clients in overcoming a wide range of emotional difficulties, therefore powerfully supporting the relationship counselling process.This healing model is based on a deep understanding of the psychology of Traditional Chinese Medicine, effectively helping liberate clients from unconscious patterns of negative beliefs and attitudes, allowing them and their partner to live happily in a more loving relationship. My work with clients is backed by over 3000 hours of clinical experience. As a relationship advocate, I also facilitate Authentic Man™ Relationship Skills Course. Current Memberships:
Australian Counselling Association - 5810
Fellow of Australain Traditional Medicine Society - 19716

Specialties:Supporting clients in personal development, empowering them to overcome the often unconscious limitations of the effect of negative childhood formative experiences, enabling psychological and spiritual growth towards fulfilling relationships with self and others.

12/02/2026

Looking for real connection with other like-minded men?
If you live around inner city Melbourne, you are invited to attend Mens Wellbeing - Open Men’s Group – on Tuesday February 17, 2026

Our Open Men's Group (OMG) is held at North Fitzroy Library on the third Tuesday of each month, and hosted and facilitated by experienced members of Mens Wellbeing Inc.
Our group is open to all men who feel the need to connect with our community of men, but especially those who may be experiencing life’s challenges or isolation due to their personal circumstances. No prior experience of men's groups is required.
Join us to start the conversation to share what is meaningful in your life, challenges you may be facing, or just stuff that’s going on!
• It's a place where you can come and express what's going on for you in confidence, where you can be heard.
• There’s respect and the space to be real.
• No judgement, no advice.
• More connection, more support, less stress!
• No sales pitch.
• We welcome any man
If you’re already involved in our group, this is a great gift to give another man, bring a mate along and have him experience the support and compassion that other men can offer.
Please join our Mens Wellbeing – Victoria group on Meetup at: https://www.meetup.com/mens-wellbeing-victoria/ ….where you can RSVP your attendance.
Plan to arrive early (from 6:45pm) for our meet & greet, then settle in to connect with our community before our 7:15pm start.
For further information call Graham, OMG Coordinator, on 0419 572 023.

23/09/2024

Looking for real connection with other like-minded men?
You are welcome to join our Mens Wellbeing - Open Men’s Groups in Melbourne on Tuesday October 1st.
Our regular face-to-face Open Men's Group is held in Melbourne's east at North Ringwood Community House, and hosted and facilitated by experienced members of Mens Wellbeing Inc.
Our Ringwood North group is held on the first Tuesday of each month and is open to all men who feel the need to connect with our community of men, but especially those who may be experiencing life’s challenges or isolation due to their personal circumstances. No prior experience of men's groups is required.
Join us to start the conversation and share what is meaningful in your life, challenges you may be facing, or just stuff that’s going on!

It's a place where you can come and express what's going on for you in confidence, where you can be heard.
There’s respect and the space to be real.
No judgement, no advice.
More connection, more support, less stress!
No commitment, no sales pitch.
We welcome any man

If you’re already involved in our group, this is a great gift to give another man, bring a mate along and have him experience the support and compassion that other men can offer.
You are invited to join our Mens Wellbeing – Victoria group on Meetup.com at: https://www.meetup.com/mens-wellbeing-victoria/ …where you can RSVP your attendance.
Plan to arrive early (from 6:45pm) to settle in and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee before our 7:00pm (sharp) start. You will be unable to join after the group has started to ensure confidentiality, so please be punctual.
For further information call Graham on 0419 572 023 - Mens Wellbeing - Victoria

20/09/2024

As some of you may know, I will be facilitating one of the daily men’s circles at Menergy 2024, a 3 day gathering retreat, taking place from Thur 17 - Sun 20 October – at Licola Wilderness Village in the beautiful Licola Valley (3 hrs east of Melbourne).
Sponsored by Mens Wellbeing Inc., it's been running for over 10 years, and serves as a place for men to come together, explore the challenges of modern life, and map out a path to honour the changing times – while embracing the essence of who we are as men.
The theme for this year's retreat is:
Hearts on Fire: the courage to listen, love and lead.
Learn more at: https://menergy.org.au/
Looking forward to seeing you there!

02/04/2023

How does your relationship stack up on trust?

Are you in it together, and are they going to look out for you?

24/09/2022

In any close relationship (where we take the risk of allowing another to matter) we open ourselves to the two primary archetypal energies of abandonment and fusion. At a deep level there may always be some hesitancy in stepping all the way in, which is valid and worthy of our exploration.

We come into relationship with a living template of past relational experiences – will I be safe? Can I be fully as I am? What about all of my eccentricities, sensitivities, and essence-vulnerabilities? Will I need to become different in order to be held and known? Will I lose myself? Is this all going to be worth it?

Inevitably, ruptures will occur within the relational field, in that tender intersection between ourselves and another. But these ruptures are natural, organic, and quantum, and portals of wholeness and integration.

A healthy relationship is not one in which there is never any conflict, but one in which rupture is repaired. Through our shared, holy resonance circuitry and by way of right-brain attunement, we honor our connectedness as well as our own autonomy and integrity which, too, is sacred. The invitation is into the aliveness of paradox and contradiction, not unconscious merging into some homogenized leaky middle.

Embodiment to the cycle of rupture and repair is what allows the relationship to unfold, deepen, and disclose its secret essence.

Each of us arrives in the emerging we-space with biographical, cultural, and archetypal patterning, schemas, and implicit worlds of meaning and imagination. These intertwine to weave the interactional field, along with the companionship, play, and shepherding of the mysterious Other, the third who also appears.

Through co-illumination, co-articulation, and making sense of our experience together the templates reveal their transparency and become ripe for revisioning. But in the core of that ripening it is tender and sensitive, and will ask everything of us.

This is why, in part, close personal relationships can be so achingly painful, on the one hand… while simultaneously being the most majestic and transmutative temple on the other.

Matt Licata

07/09/2022

Some wisdom in this article….

Why the obvious isn’t necessarily the most draining.

08/08/2022

Is there anything familiar from your own relationship experience in this analysis?

A breakdown of what goes wrong and what you can do so they’ll choose to stay.

29/07/2022

The value of attachment through healthy relationships is widely beneficial. When loneliness kicks in, it opens the door to a space that can be difficult to occupy, with the possibility of significant negative side effects.

Each person responds in a different way. Here are some ideas to help you cope.

26/12/2021

Startling findings that relegate intimacy and romantic relationships to oblivion. What does this mean for us all when material assets are much more highly rated than intimate connection?

For married Americans, a drop from 31 percent to 13.

20/11/2021

Is this pattern familiar to you?

The Pursuer-Distancer Relationship.

25/10/2021

What it means to be an overfunctioning partner.

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Melbourne, VIC
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+61419572023

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Love is the most profound emotion known to human beings. For most people, romantic relationships are the most meaningful element in their lives. But the ability to have a healthy, loving relationship is not innate. Almost all of us have experienced a failed relationship, and most of us have to work consciously to master the skills necessary to make them flourish. The good news is that with effort and perseverance, you can learn what you need to know to make your relationship last. My consulting business has a renewed focus to incorporate specialist skills in Relationship Counselling. It is inspiring to work with couples who are committed to seeking more fulfilling relationships. Based on the latest empirical research, my approach to Relationship Counselling supports couples to enhance their relationship, provides strategies to overcome and appreciate differences, and creates greater harmony that encourages the deepening of their intimacy and shared bond. Sometimes clients struggle with identifying their emotions and feelings, or communication becomes defensive and critical, which is damaging to a couples relationship. Kinesiology provides a valuable tool to support clients in overcoming a wide range of emotional difficulties, therefore powerfully supporting the relationship counselling process.This healing model is based on a deep understanding of the psychology of Traditional Chinese Medicine, effectively helping liberate clients from unconscious patterns of negative beliefs and attitudes, allowing them and their partner to live happily in a more loving relationship. My work with clients is backed by over 2500 hours of clinical experience. As a relationship advocate, I have facilitated a weekly group "Understanding Ourselves - Managing Relationships" , and a couples workshop “Good Connecting” at Relationships Australia. Current Memberships: Australian Counselling Association - 5810 Australain Traditional Medicine Society - 19716 Australian Counselling Association - College of Supervisors Specialties:Supporting clients in personal development, empowering them to overcome the often unconscious limitations of the effect of negative childhood formative experiences, enabling psychological and spiritual growth towards fulfilling relationships with self and others.