Across Ontario and eight other provinces and territories
Online Couples Therapy
Relationships are always changing. Work, family, stress, and life’s transitions all leave their mark, and two people who care about each other can find that feeling connected takes more effort than it used to.
Couples therapy is a place to slow down together, understand what’s been happening between you, and find a way forward that feels right for you both.
You still care, and that’s a good place to start
Over time, many couples fall into patterns that are hard to see, and even harder to change, on their own.
Asking for help isn’t a sign that your relationship is failing. More often, it’s a sign of how much it matters to you.
Perhaps some of this sounds familiar
“Small disagreements seem to turn into big fights.”
“When things get tense, one of us shuts down and the other pushes harder.”
“Trust has been broken, and we’re not sure we can get past it.”
“We feel more like roommates than partners.”
“Somewhere along the way, we stopped checking in with each other.”
“It feels like I’m carrying most of the load at home.”
“We want different things, and we don’t know how to talk about it.”
You don’t need to be at a breaking point to begin. Many couples come to therapy simply because they want more closeness, understanding, or ease in their relationship.
How couples therapy can help
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Communication and Conflict
Sometimes it’s the same argument on repeat, or conversations that turn tense before they’ve really started. Therapy can help you understand what’s happening in those moments and find new ways to talk and listen to each other.
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Emotional and Physical Intimacy
Distance can build quietly, often without either of you noticing. Therapy offers space to explore intimacy, closeness, and what you each need to feel connected again.
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Infidelity and Rebuilding Trust
After a betrayal, it can be hard to know where to begin. Therapy can help you each feel heard, understand what happened, and consider whether trust can be rebuilt.
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Navigating Change Together
Whether you’re managing the demands of parenting, adjusting to a move, grieving a loss, or caring for a family member, these changes can shift how you relate to each other. Therapy can help you stay connected while life around you changes.
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Strengthening Your Relationship
Couples therapy isn’t only for hard times. It can also help you prepare for a big step, like moving in together or getting married, or build on what’s already working.
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Neurodiversity in Relationships
Differences in attention, communication, or how you each process emotion can be misread as not caring or not trying. Therapy can help you understand each other’s needs and find ways of relating that work for you both.
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Deciding What’s Next
Some couples aren’t sure whether they want to stay together. Therapy can help you make that decision thoughtfully and, if you choose to separate, do so with care.
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Blended Families and Co‑Parenting
Bringing two families together, or raising children across two homes, can put pressure on even strong relationships. Therapy can help you work through new roles, different parenting styles, and moments when loyalties feel divided.
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Open and Polyamorous Relationships
Relationships take many forms. We work with monogamous couples and with partners in polyamorous and ethically non‑monogamous (ENM) relationships, without assumptions about how yours should look.
How we approach couples therapy
Rather than looking for who’s to blame, couples therapy focuses on what’s happening between you.
The cycle you’re caught in. Often, each partner’s way of protecting themselves sets off the other’s. Seeing that cycle clearly is the first step toward changing it.
What sits underneath. The needs and feelings that get lost in conflict, and where your patterns first took shape.
New ways of being together. Learning to turn toward each other, even in hard moments, so closeness and repair start to feel possible again.
Your goals guide each session, and the work draws on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), along with attachment-based, psychodynamic, and narrative approaches.
Meet your couples therapist
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying),
Canadian Certified Counsellor
Hazel works with couples on communication, intimacy, and trust. Her style is warm, compassionate, and honest. She helps each partner feel understood, while gently naming the dynamics that can be hard to notice in the moment.
Hazel brings particular care and interest to helping couples work through betrayal and infidelity. She offers online couples therapy in Ontario and eight other provinces and territories.
Hazel Diaz
Common questions
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Start with a free 15-minute consultation by phone or video. You can come together, or on your own if your partner isn’t ready yet. Sessions take place online, from wherever you’re most comfortable.
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Not at all. Some couples come in during a hard time, and others simply want to understand each other better. Both are good reasons to begin, and there’s no need to wait until things feel urgent.
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Couples sessions are $200 for 50 minutes, or $350 for 90 minutes.
Receipts are provided so you can submit them for reimbursement. Coverage varies by plan and often depends on the therapist’s credentials. Hazel is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) and a Canadian Certified Counsellor, so it’s worth asking your provider whether either is covered.
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Some couples find a longer session gives them room to go deeper; others prefer shorter, more frequent sessions. You can talk through what feels right for you in your consultation.
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It's common for one partner to feel ready before the other. You can begin with individual therapy now, and add couples therapy when you're both ready.
One consideration to keep in mind: to keep couples work balanced from the start, your individual therapy would be with a different therapist than your couples therapist.
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Yes. Couples sessions focus on the relationship, while individual therapy gives you space to explore your own history, feelings, and ways of coping, which you can then bring back into the relationship. The two often work well together.
To keep couples therapy balanced for both partners, ongoing individual therapy happens with a separate therapist.Partners in Ontario can see Amanda Rout (Registered Psychotherapist) for individual therapy, online or in person in King City. Occasional individual sessions can also be part of your couples work when helpful.
If you're outside Ontario, we're happy to talk through options in your consultation.
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Yes. Couples therapy and marriage counselling are often used interchangeably. ou don’t need to be married or living together to begin.
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No. The goal isn’t to decide who’s right, but to help you both feel heard and understand what’s happening between you.
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Both partners need to be located in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, or Yukon during each session.
Ready when you are
Starting therapy can feel like a big step.
A free consultation is a simple, low‑pressure way to ask questions and see whether we’re the right fit.
Prefer to ask a question first? Send us a message.