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Couples Therapy
Rebuilding Connection. Restoring Trust. Learning to Feel Safe Together Again.
Every couple begins with hope
Over time, however, stress, misunderstandings, unmet needs, and unresolved wounds can slowly create distance. Conversations may become tense. Small disagreements may escalate quickly. What once felt easy can start to feel fragile.
Couples therapy provides a structured and supportive space to pause these patterns and understand what is happening beneath them. It offers an opportunity to improve communication, repair trust after betrayal, navigate recurring conflicts, deepen emotional intimacy, and move from blame toward greater understanding.
At Restoring Peace, we work with couples who are not only seeking to “stop fighting,” but who genuinely want to reconnect and feel emotionally safe with one another again.
When Might Couples Therapy Help?
You may benefit from couples therapy if conversations quickly turn into arguments or if one or both of you feel unheard and unseen.
Many couples come to therapy because they find themselves stuck in the same conflict cycle despite repeated attempts to resolve it.
Therapy can also be helpful when there has been infidelity or betrayal, when intimacy feels distant or strained, or when major life transitions — such as parenthood, relocation, or career stress — begin to create tension within the relationship. Sometimes, couples still deeply love each other, yet feel emotionally disconnected and unsure how to bridge the gap.
Seeking support does not mean your relationship is failing. Often, it reflects a shared desire to preserve and strengthen what matters most.
How Couples Therapy Works
Couples therapy is not about choosing sides. It is about understanding the interactional cycle between you.
We help couples:
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Identify negative interaction patterns
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Slow down emotional reactivity
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Express vulnerable needs safely
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Learn healthier communication tools
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Rebuild emotional safety
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Strengthen secure attachment
Our approach integrates several therapy modalities, which include, but are not limited to, Gottman Method, Emotion-focused Couple therapy, Internal Family System Couple therapy, and Bowenian Family Therapy. We also administer assessment tests to help couples assess their relationship strength and identify areas of conflict. The assessment test is particularly helpful for improving communication and managing conflict, leading to healthier relationships.
Common Areas We Work With
Couples seek therapy for a wide range of concerns, including communication breakdown, persistent conflict, emotional disconnection, affair recovery, and sexual or intimacy difficulties. Some couples come for pre-marital preparation, while others are navigating parenting stress, cultural differences, or challenges related to family-of-origin dynamics. The therapy goal is to restore emotional safety and strengthen secure attachment.
What to Expect in Sessions
In couples therapy, both partners are given space to share their perspectives and experiences. Together, we identify recurring patterns and explore how attachment histories and past experiences may influence present interactions.
The sessions can be structured or dynamic, depending on the couple’s needs. The couple therapist facilitates couples' emotional safety, with a focus on practical change. Couples are supported not only in gaining insight, but also in practicing new ways of communicating and responding to one another between sessions.
Healing in a relationship takes courage. With commitment, openness, and guided support, meaningful repair and reconnection are possible.
Our Couples Therapists:
Geraldine Chua - Relationship therapist
Geraldine Chua specializes in relationship therapy and works extensively with couples. She incorporates both the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy, helping partners develop healthier communication patterns and rebuild emotional safety.
Read more about Geraldine here
Benjamin Wong Yew Fei - Individual, marriage, and addiction therapist
Benjamin Wong Yew Fei is an Individual, Marriage, and Addiction Therapist who provides structured couples therapy using the Gottman Method and Emotion Focused Couple Therapy. His work includes affair recovery and premarital counselling, supporting couples through both crisis repair and proactive relationship strengthening.
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Abigail Yang - Senior therapist
Abigail Yang provides therapy for both individuals and couples. Her couples work integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), supporting partners in identifying attachment needs and strengthening emotional responsiveness within the relationship.
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Lena Chew - Senior therapist
Lena Chew works with individuals and couples, focusing on strengthening marriages and restoring relational connection. Her work supports couples navigating communication breakdowns and relational strain.
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Tsui Ling Lee - Senior therapist
Tsui Ling Lee is a Senior Therapist who works with children, adults, and couples. She is trained as an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Couple Therapist, which allows her to help partners understand the internal emotional parts that shape their interactions and conflicts.
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Lisa Xu Haiyan - Senior therapist
Lisa Xu Haiyan provides therapy to individuals and couples and integrates Emotion Focused Therapy into her relational work. She is also pursuing doctoral training in Marriage and Family Counselling, further deepening her systemic understanding of couple dynamics.
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Rose Faquir
Rose holds more than 15 years of experience in providing trauma-informed and attachment-based psychotherapy to individuals with complex trauma, anxiety, personality disorders, and other mental health challenges. Her approach to therapy integrates somatic experiencing and attachment theory. Rose works with early attachment wounds that affect the couple’s dynamic. She also provides discernment therapy for couples who are at a crossroads in their relationships.
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Read more about Rose here