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MARRIAGE & COUPLE counselling in Singapore

Rebuild Emotional Connection, Trust and Safety

Every relationship goes through difficult seasons. Over time, couples may feel emotionally distant, misunderstood, or trapped in the same painful arguments. Even when love is still there, the connection can begin to feel lost.


At Just2Hearts Counselling, we use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples understand the negative interaction cycle that keeps them stuck.


EFT is an evidence-based approach grounded in attachment science. Rather than focusing on who is right or wrong, EFT helps couples recognise the patterns beneath conflict, understand each other's deeper emotions and needs, and create lasting emotional connection.

Common Relationship Challenges

Emotional Disconnection

Recurring Conflict & Communication Breakdown

Recurring Conflict & Communication Breakdown

Feeling more like roommates than partners

Recurring Conflict & Communication Breakdown

Recurring Conflict & Communication Breakdown

Recurring Conflict & Communication Breakdown

 The same arguments keep happening without resolution. 

Trust & Relationship Uncertainty

Recurring Conflict & Communication Breakdown

Trust & Relationship Uncertainty

Struggling with trust, hurt, or uncertainty about the future. 

WHY DO COUPLES KEEP HAVING THE SAME ARGUMENTS?

Understanding Your Relationship Cycle

At Just2Hearts Counselling, we use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help couples understand what happens beneath recurring conflicts.


Often, when one partner feels disconnected, they reach out through frustration, criticism, or anger. Underneath may be a more vulnerable question:

“Do I still matter to you?”

The other partner may hear criticism rather than longing. Feeling blamed or inadequate, they withdraw or become quiet. The more one reaches, the more the other pulls away—and both end up feeling increasingly disconnected.

The problem is not either partner. It is the negative cycle that keeps pulling you apart.


How EFT Couples Counselling Can Help


EFT helps couples recognise and change these patterns, understand the deeper emotions and attachment needs underneath conflict, and create greater emotional safety.

Couples can begin to rebuild trust, communicate more openly, and reconnect emotionally.


Read more: Why Do Couples Keep Having the Same Arguments? 

Emotionally Focused therapy for couples (EFCT)

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?

  • An evidence-based couple therapy that aims to create secure bond for couples 
  • Backed by more than 30 years of research 

How many sessions?

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?

What is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)?

  • A short-term approach between 8-20 sessions
  • Depending on the complexity and commitment level from both partners 

Success Rate

How does it work?

How does it work?

  • 70% to 75 % of couples moving from distress to complete recovery 
  • 90% of couples reported significant improvement in their relationship.

How does it work?

How does it work?

How does it work?

  • 1st Session - Couple Session
  • Individual session/s with each partner 
  • Followed by Couple Sessions

About Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT)

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) is widely regarded as one of the most effective therapeutic modalities for couple counseling. It focuses on creating secure emotional bonds between partners through structured interventions. EFCT helps couples understand and transform their emotional responses, fostering connection and reducing conflict. Research supports its effectiveness in improving relationship satisfaction and emotional intimacy.  


 Why EFCT is considered the most effective model for Couple Therapy: 

  • Research-based: One of the most empirically validated approaches for couples. 
  • High success rates: Studies show 70–75% of couples move from distress to recovery, with up to 90% reporting significant improvement.
  • Focus: Builds secure emotional bonds by addressing attachment needs and patterns of disconnection.
  • Applicable to various populations: Works across cultures, relationship structures, gender identities, and trauma survivors.

Find out more about EFCT

What to expect from Marriage & Couple counselling

Stage 1: Understanding the Negative Relationship Cycle

Stage 3: Strengthening the Relationship and Moving Forward

Stage 1: Understanding the Negative Relationship Cycle

We explore the patterns that keep you stuck in repeated conflict or emotional distance. Together, we identify the negative cycle as the problem — not each other.


  • Recognise recurring patterns 
  • Understand what happens beneath conflict 
  • Identify deeper emotions and needs

Stage 2: Rebuilding Emotional Connection

Stage 3: Strengthening the Relationship and Moving Forward

Stage 1: Understanding the Negative Relationship Cycle

As the cycle becomes clearer, we help partners communicate deeper emotions and needs in ways that create greater safety and connection.


  • Share vulnerable emotions 
  • Respond with greater understanding 
  • Create new experiences of connection

Stage 3: Strengthening the Relationship and Moving Forward

Stage 3: Strengthening the Relationship and Moving Forward

Stage 3: Strengthening the Relationship and Moving Forward

As emotional connection grows, couples become better able to work through difficulties together and face future challenges as a team. 


  • Build emotional security 
  • Develop new skills to manage difficult situations 
  • Strengthen problem-solving 
  • Deepen connection for the future

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) vs Gottman Method

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

 Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on understanding the emotional bond between partners. It helps couples recognise negative interaction cycles, understand deeper emotions, and rebuild a sense of safety and connection. By working with attachment needs, EFT supports partners in moving from conflict and distance toward a more secure and safe relationship. 

Gottman Method

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

 The Gottman Method focuses on relationship education and practical skills. It is more psychoeducational in nature, helping couples learn tools for communication, conflict management, and strengthening friendship. Through structured exercises and guidance, couples develop healthier habits and strategies to manage disagreements and maintain their relationship. 

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Hear their experiences after marriage counselling

The Best Gift for Each Other

The Best Gift for Each Other

The Best Gift for Each Other

 We booked our first marriage counselling session with Winny on Valentines Day and is so far the best gift my husband and I could have ever given each other. After being together for almost 2 decades, we came to a point where we knew we needed help but didn’t exactly know what it was.
Winny helped us understand what went lacking and how we could reconnect back by understanding each other’s point of view. We have always talked things through but Winny helped put things back in perspective. As both of us are naturally private, it was honestly awkward at first. After few individual and couple sessions, we started to appreciate the beauty of speaking to a trained professional who allowed us to speak our minds and asked us smart questions. Winny helped us warm up, that soon led us to identifying our emotions, pinpointing bad habits (which unknowingly hurt us) and consciously appreciating each other’s effort to reach out.
We are happy to “graduate” from the sessions but most importantly we are happy that we are back to being each other’s safe space. Thank you Winny and I hope that you touch more lives with this vocation. (M&C) 

Heart to Heart Communication

The Best Gift for Each Other

The Best Gift for Each Other

 We began on this Marriage Counselling journey with a heavy heart, unable to even expect anything out of it. We were both extremely unstable in our emotions and expressions. The initial sessions were so tough that Winny had to manage us individually back then. We certainly gave her a hard time.  

Winny, the way you counselled individually led me to open up. I did not feel any judgement nor detect condemnation from you. You also led me to uncover and express deep emotions that was unknown for years. I could even go deep in reflection from the questions you posted to me in every session. It was the reflections that helped me realized what exactly went wrong between my spouse and I! We had not communicated truly for the longest time. From your counselling, we dealt deeply with our emotions such that we could communicate heart to heart finally. This was evident from our last few couple therapy sessions when my spouse could stabilize her emotions and have quality sharing.   

All in all, from a hard stand of unknown outcome initially to a beautiful renewal relationship, we could only say a big “Thank You” to you, Winny, for giving us your time despite of your busy schedule. We were so blessed by the way you counselled!” (ST & CL)

From Disconnection to Connection

My wife and I have been seeing each other for about 10 years and we decided to tie the knot 5 years ago. Unfortunately, I got into an extramarital affair with an office colleague and started to stray from my marriage, until my wife eventually found out about it.


Hoping to salvage the marriage, we approached Winny for Infidelity Counselling and have since attended over 10 sessions with her.  Winny was patient and understanding to hearing both sides of our story and took an unbiased stance towards breaking down the problems in our relationship.   


Through the coaching and assignments, we were able to understand our other half better and identified the root cause to the problem in our relationship – that is we are a conflict avoidant couple and that resulted in a build-up frustration over the years. Towards the end of the counselling, Winny gave some valuable advice on how to rebuild the trust in our relationship. 


Thanks to Winny, my wife and I are now more vocal and could engage with each other on a much more intimate level. We also learned that marriage is fragile and never to take each other for granted. We will not hesitate to recommend Winny to any other couple for Marriage Counselling for Infidelity. She is a highly experienced and professional couple therapist, especially in working with couples dealing with infidelity   (TJ and SC)  

What Happens during Couple Therapy?

 Many couples worry about what to expect from counselling or whether they will be judged. At Just2Hearts Counselling, we provide a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space where both partners can speak openly and feel heard.


Together, we will:


  • Understand what brought you to counselling and what matters most to each of you. 
  • Recognise the recurring cycle that keeps you feeling stuck. 
  • Help each partner better understand their own emotions, reactions, and unmet attachment needs. 
  • Develop a deeper understanding of each other's inner experiences, beyond blame and criticism. 
  • Create greater emotional safety so new conversations become possible. 
  •  Identify the changes that will help you reconnect and move forward together. 


Couple therapy is not about deciding who is right or wrong. It is about helping both partners feel heard, understood, and emotionally safe enough to reconnect.

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