Couples & Relationship Therapy Singapore
Turning Conflict Into Connection
When Did ‘We’ Become Just ‘Me’?
Work through communication blocks, emotional distance, and conflict — together.
Couples counselling offers a safe, supportive space for partners to resolve conflicts, improve communication, and deepen their emotional connection with the guidance of a professional. It helps couples address challenges and find practical solutions to strengthen their relationship.
Relationships can be incredibly beautiful — but also deeply challenging. Regardless of gender, stage of commitment, or relationship type, couples may encounter obstacles that strain their bond. At Listening Ear Counselling & Consultancy Pte. Ltd., we understand the vulnerability that comes with love and offer the tools, insight, and support needed to navigate these difficulties with care and clarity.
How Couples Counselling in Singapore can help?
Couples counselling can help partners improve communication by learning to express thoughts and feelings clearly, without blame. It addresses harmful patterns like criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling — often known as the Four Horsemen — and replaces them with healthier, more constructive ways of relating.
It also equips couples with tools for resolving conflicts more effectively, helping them navigate disagreements with respect and understanding. As communication improves, so does emotional and physical intimacy, allowing partners to reconnect on a deeper level and reignite the spark that may have faded.
Rebuilding trust is another key benefit. Counselling provides a structured space to work through betrayals or breaches of trust, fostering honesty, accountability, and gradual healing. It also helps uncover and process underlying issues that may be shaping the relationship, such as childhood trauma, attachment wounds, or unresolved pain from previous relationships.
At Listening Ear, we believe couples are not the problem — they may simply be carrying unresolved patterns that need support to shift. Our approach is grounded in healing the past, but also in moving forward with clarity, compassion, and renewed connection.
Struggles We Help Couples Navigate
No relationship is without its challenges. Over time, patterns of miscommunication, emotional distance, or repeated conflict can start to erode the connection between partners. Whether you’re facing small misunderstandings or major roadblocks, couples counselling offers a safe and structured space to identify these struggles, understand their root causes, and begin the process of healing together.
Misunderstandings, poor listening, or emotionally reactive conversations that involve blame or the Four Horsemen: criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling.
Struggles with transparency, emotional safety, or past betrayals that have damaged trust between partners.
Emotional and physical disconnect that builds over time, leaving couples feeling distant or unfulfilled.
Persistent arguments that keep resurfacing without resolution, creating tension and emotional fatigue.
Teaching couples how to see and value one another again — how to notice, praise, repair, and rebuild the relationship with intention and care.
Therapy Approaches used during Couple Counselling Sessions at Listening Ear Counselling
At Listening Ear, we tailor our therapeutic approach to suit each couple’s unique dynamics. Our work is grounded in empathy, collaboration, and evidence-based methods that support lasting relationship change.
EFT helps couples identify and shift negative interaction cycles by focusing on emotional bonding and unmet attachment needs.
Create Secure Bonds: Foster emotional safety and closeness.
Understand Emotional Needs: Help partners express and empathise with each other’s underlying feelings.
Break Negative Cycles: Transform distressing patterns into moments of connection.
How it Works:
Through guided emotional exploration, couples learn to share vulnerabilities and respond to each other with greater sensitivity — building trust, intimacy, and emotional resilience.
This approach uses decades of research to help couples strengthen friendship, manage conflict, and deepen shared meaning.
Enhance Communication: Replace harmful patterns with healthier interactions.
Manage Conflict Effectively: Learn tools for respectful disagreement.
Foster Intimacy: Build emotional and physical closeness.
How it Works:
Couples engage in structured exercises to strengthen their bond while addressing the “Four Horsemen” — criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling — with antidotes that promote repair and reconnection.
NVC promotes empathy-based communication, allowing couples to speak honestly without blame and listen without defensiveness.
Cultivate Empathy: Practice active, compassionate listening.
Express Needs Clearly: Share feelings and needs in constructive ways.
Reduce Reactivity: Resolve conflict with mutual respect and understanding.
How it Works:
Couples learn to slow down reactive patterns and instead express themselves from a place of vulnerability and need, fostering connection over conflict.
This method explores self-esteem, family-of-origin roles, and patterns of relating to promote growth and understanding.
Increase Self-Awareness: Understand personal triggers and family conditioning.
Improve Communication: Shift from surface-level reactions to deeper understanding.
Encourage Growth: Support healing and emotional development within the relationship.
How it Works:
Using techniques like sculpting and role play, couples explore deeper patterns and experiment with new, more compassionate ways of engaging.
Family Systems Therapy examines how intergenerational patterns, roles, and rules impact the couple dynamic.
Understand Systemic Patterns: Explore the influence of extended family.
Clarify Roles: Address unspoken expectations and boundaries.
Strengthen Partnership: Establish a shared identity beyond inherited roles.
How it Works:
Therapists guide couples in exploring family dynamics and relational habits that influence present-day struggles, allowing for conscious change and stronger alignment.
Inspired by the writings and work of Esther Perel, this approach explores modern love, desire, and the tension between intimacy and autonomy.
Balance Freedom and Togetherness: Navigate individuality within closeness.
Rediscover Desire: Understand what fuels attraction and connection.
Reframe Relationship Narratives: Challenge outdated beliefs that restrict intimacy.
How it Works:
Couples reflect on their relational dynamics, internalised stories, and evolving identities — gaining tools to build a relationship that feels both grounded and alive.
Our Couple Counselling Fees
| Session Type | Investment | Additional Charges | Cancellation Policy |
|---|---|---|---|
| In-Person Sessions | SGD 250 | – SGD 50 after-hours surcharge -Transportation fees for out-of-office sessions or different venues | Reschedule or cancel with 36+ hours’ notice. Late changes or no-shows incur full session investment. |
| Virtual Sessions (Zoom) | SGD 200 (PayNow) SGD 250 (Other Methods) | – SGD 50 after-hours surcharge | Same as above. |
Why Choose Listening Ear Counselling & Consultancy?
Professionally Trained & Trauma-Informed
Evidence-Based & Grounded in Real Life
Culturally Sensitive & Globally Informed
Respectful of Complex, Delicate Issues
