Rediscover Connection
Stuck in the same disagreements? Do financial discussions turn into arguments? Do family visits bring stress? Do shared goals feel misaligned? Emotional distance can make you feel completely disconnected. Even when you understand each other's perspective, doing things differently can feel impossible.
Your Story Counselling offers compassionate couples therapy and marriage counselling in Vaughan, Markham, and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as well as online couples counselling across Ontario. Our therapists support partners throughout York Region with recurring conflict, trust issues, intimacy challenges, parenting, and complex family or cultural expectations.
Couples therapy provides space to sort through disconnection, understand what each person brings to the relationship, and unpack the pressures holding you back. Together, we will explore what needs to change so you can move forward with clarity, alignment, and deeper connection.
What brings couples to counselling?
Whether you're healing from a major rupture or feeling distant, take the first step back toward one another. If this sounds like your relationship, we can help you find your way back to each other.
You keep having the same argument
The topic changes, but the pattern feels familiar. One person feels criticized and becomes defensive. The other feels unheard and tries harder to explain. Eventually, you stop talking without resolving much.
We can help you look more closely at how these conversations unfold and what each person is trying to communicate. Bring these patterns into therapy so we can help you understand them together.
Couples counselling that makes room for culture and family
People bring different understandings of love, respect, and responsibility to a relationship.
In one family, care may be expressed through sacrifice and practical help. In another, talking openly about feelings may be expected. Keeping problems private might feel respectful to one partner and isolating to the other.
These differences can be more noticeable when you are making decisions about marriage, money, children, holidays, or caring for parents.
We support intercultural couples and couples who share a cultural background but have different family experiences. Share a language, religion, or ethnicity? You may still have learned different things about relationships.
Our conversations might include:
Navigating financial and emotional support for relatives.
Discussing faith, marriage, and child-rearing.
Honouring tradition while creating new customs that reflect your values and experiences.
Balancing privacy and togetherness in a multi-family home.
Stabilizing support for your partner and loyalty to family.
Our culturally informed therapists can help you explore these aspects of a relationship in a safe, judgment-free environment.
Together, we can discover your shared values and turn them into decisions you both believe in.
The circumstances around your relationship matter
Work schedules, housing costs, caregiving, health concerns, and financial pressure all affect how much time and energy you have for each other.
Migration and discrimination can also shape a relationship. One partner may carry more responsibility for translating, navigating institutions, or supporting relatives. A queer partner may be included privately but excluded from family gatherings.
Those experiences deserve attention in couples therapy. Support needs to fit the choices and resources you actually have.
In couples therapy, we help partners navigate power and responsibility within the relationship. We know that extenuating circumstances can affect what matters most for folks. We make space for differences to be discussed and for perspectives to be heard. We truly believe that understanding someone's culture, history, and background allows us to understand and move forward better.
Meet our couples therapists
in York Region
Our psychotherapists bring varied lived experiences and professional expertise.
Connect today for a free consultation to find your best fit.
Zahra Eizadi
D.CP., M.A.
Communication, intimacy, trust, and cultural differences
Zahra draws on clinical psychology, psychotherapy, and sex therapy to help couples understand the emotional and relational patterns behind communication difficulties, intimacy concerns, and broken trust. Her approach considers how culture, identity, migration experiences, and family expectations can intersect, shaping what each partner needs and how they express it. Through collaborative conversations informed by attachment and emotion-focused therapies, she supports you in exploring these differences with curiosity, recognising each other’s vulnerabilities, and developing more responsive ways of connecting. Your relationship goals guide the work, with room for both your shared experiences and the individual histories you bring.
Online Only
Ontario
Alana Sham
MACP, Registered Psychotherapist
Communication, emotional connection, parenting, and life transitions
When conversations go in circles or changing responsibilities leave you feeling disconnected, Alana offers space to understand what’s happening between you. Her experience with children, adults, and families helps her look at your relationship within the wider context of caregiving, family expectations, and everyday pressures, alongside the identities and experiences that shape each partner’s perspective. With a gentle, reflective style, she draws on psychotherapy and social work perspectives, using attachment, narrative, and emotion-focused approaches. Sessions encourage you to recognise familiar patterns, express what matters to you, and consider how your responses affect one another, making room for greater understanding and connection.
Vaughan and Markham
Ontario
Yukta Gupta
MA, Registered Psychotherapist
Relationship strain, parenting, and family responsibilities
Yukta works with couples on relationship concerns and supports people navigating parenting and family life. Her training includes Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. Her approach considers differences in culture, ability, gender identity, and sexual orientation, alongside the concerns you want to address together.
Vaughan & Markham
Ontario
Jim Cheung
MSSc, Registered Psychotherapist
Queer relationships, intimacy, and identity across cultures
Jim supports individuals and couples within 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, including newcomers and children of immigrants. His experience includes queer relationships, intimacy, ethical non-monogamy, and the effects of minority stress. As a queer person of colour and an immigrant, Jim brings lived experience to conversations about identity, cultural expectations, and belonging.
Markham
Ontario
How we approach couples therapy
Our team brings perspectives from psychotherapy and social work. Depending on your clinician, sessions may draw on Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, and relational or systemic approaches.
Your therapist can explain how they work and discuss what fits your situation.
You can also bring uncertainty about your future together. Your goals may include reconnecting, understanding what continuing the relationship would require, or considering your next steps.
Together, we can work on:
Understanding your relationship patterns.
Uncovering how disagreements turn into defensiveness, withdrawal, repeated reassurance-seeking, or emotional disconnection.
Expressing what feels difficult
Creating a safe space to communicate underlying hurt, loneliness, resentment, or uncertainty.
Exploring underlying expectations
Examining how upbringing and cultural background shape your views on money, gender roles, parenting, loyalty, and family responsibility.
Building practical agreements.
Forming clear expectations for sharing responsibilities, setting family boundaries, and renewing trust.
Creating lasting change beyond therapy
Track real-world progress, ensure agreements are kept, and make discussions at home appear more manageable.
What getting started looks like
1
Book a free consultation
A free 15-minute chat to ask about your therapist’s approach, fees, and scheduling. You can ask how they handle challenges, like family involvement or communication barriers.
2
Share your story
In your initial sessions, you will discuss what has been happening, what you have already tried, and what you both hope to achieve.
3
Work toward real changes
Set and accomplish goals such as handling family stress, sharing responsibilities, discussing finances calmly, or rebuilding intimacy.
Together with your therapist, you will celebrate your progress as you continue to heal and grow.
Couples therapy fees and reduced-fee options
Couples and relationship appointments are generally 50–60 minutes. Fees vary by clinician.
Clinician category | Published couples session fee |
|---|---|
Registered Psychotherapists (Qualifying) | $160 |
Associate Registered Psychotherapists and Social Workers | $180–$190 |
Senior clinicians | $210 |
Supervised therapist interns | $75–$95 |
All fees are listed in CAD. Please confirm your therapist's rates and session length before booking. Visit our Fees and Coverage page for more information.
Reduced-Fee Options: Limited sliding-scale appointments are available. If cost affects your session frequency, let us know upon reaching out so we can discuss options.
Extended Health Benefits: Check with your insurance provider to ensure your plan covers couples counselling under your therapist's specific designation (e.g., RP or RSW).
In-person and online couples therapy for York Region
We offer in-person appointments at our Vaughan and Markham offices, along with online appointments throughout Ontario.
For couples in Richmond Hill, Aurora, Newmarket, and other York Region communities, you can choose an office location or inquire about meeting online.
Vaughan office
Featured couples therapists offering Vaughan appointments include Xenia Kwan, Kathy Lam, and Yukta Gupta.
20 Floral Parkway, Unit A3
Vaughan, ON L4K 4R1
Markham office
Featured couples therapists offering Markham appointments include Xenia Kwan, Kathy Lam, and Jim Cheung.
Check individual profiles for current appointment options. For directions or accessibility questions, contact our team.
7030 Woodbine Avenue, Suite 500
Markham, ON L3R 6G2
Online couples therapy
Online sessions offer another way to attend when travelling to an office is difficult. You can discuss privacy, technology, and whether online appointments suit your circumstances during the consultation.
If you and your partner will join from different locations, let your therapist know in advance so you can discuss arrangements.
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