Kaela Sussman (Registered Counsellor)
Couples Counselling in Johannesburg
Couples counselling provides professional support for partners experiencing conflict, disconnection, or change. It also helps with repeated patterns and strengthening the relationship. Sessions are available in Sandton, Modderfontein, and online.
Considering Couples Counselling?
When Couples Counselling May Be Helpful
People seek couples counselling for many different reasons. Sometimes it’s to manage ongoing tension or repeated conflict. At other times, it’s about navigating life changes together or improving communication. Some couples come with a clear concern they want to address. Others come because something feels off, even if they can’t fully explain it. Counselling offers space to slow things down, understand patterns between you, and relate to each other in healthier ways.
Signs Couples Counselling May Help:
- Ongoing tension or conflict
- Conversations going in circles
- Feeling disconnected from each other
- Healing after hurt or trust issues
- Adjusting to life changes or added stress
- Feeling unheard or misunderstood
- Ongoing resentment building
- Preparing for marriage or commitment
How I Work With My Clients
This short video explains how couples counselling works and what to expect in sessions. It outlines the focus of the work and how sessions are guided by both partners’ needs and pace.
Process
How Couples Counselling Works
Couples counselling offers a supportive space to explore what is happening in your relationship. Sessions are flexible and shaped around your needs as a couple. You do not need to arrive with clear goals. The focus develops as the work continues.
1. Initial Session
The first session focuses on understanding your relationship, why you’ve come to counselling, and what each partner hopes to work on together.
2. Exploring Patterns
We identify communication, emotional, and conflict patterns that shape your relationship, helping both partners gain insight and reduce blame.
3. Ongoing Sessions
Sessions adapt to what feels most relevant, focusing on communication, conflict, connection, or life changes affecting your relationship.
4. Reflection and Direction
We regularly review progress and decide together what ongoing support is helpful, whether short-term or longer-term.
Areas I Work With
I offer counselling in Johannesburg for a range of emotional, relational, and life challenges. People often come to counselling when something feels stuck, overwhelming, or difficult to manage alone.
Couples counselling supports clearer communication and better understanding. Sessions focus on improving how you talk, listen, and respond during challenging or emotional conversations.
Couples counselling provides space to strengthen emotional closeness. It supports rebuilding trust, restoring safety, and feeling more connected to one another.
Couples counselling supports partners through life changes such as parenting, work stress, or major transitions that place pressure on the relationship.
Couples counselling helps explore expectations, responsibilities, and boundaries to support a healthier balance within the relationship.
Couples counselling helps identify conflict patterns and supports learning more constructive ways to manage disagreements and repair disconnection.
Couples counselling supports awareness of repeated behaviours or cycles that influence how partners relate, without placing blame on either person.
Couples counselling focuses on identifying what is already working well and building on existing strengths within the relationship.
Couples counselling supports partners navigating fertility challenges, including emotional stress, uncertainty, and the impact on communication and connection.
Couples counselling supports discussions about shared goals, values, and future planning in a clear, respectful, and grounded way.
Couples counselling supports partners working through the effects of infidelity or betrayal. Counselling focuses on emotional processing, restoring safety, understanding relationship dynamics, and clarifying next steps together.
Practical Information
Sessions, Fees and Availability
Couples Counselling sessions are available by appointment.
Sessions are offered during the week, with after-hours and Saturday appointments available when possible. Availability may change depending on demand.
Counselling Fees
- Intake Session: R1300
- Follow Ups: R950
- 3 Hour Intensives: R2600
Online sessions are R100 less. Medical aid claims may apply, depending on your plan.
Counselling Locations
- Sandton (Rochester Place)
- Modderfontein (Willow Worx)
- Online (Secure Platform)
What to Expect
What Couples Counselling Sessions Are Like
As a registered counsellor based in Johannesburg, my couples counselling sessions are provide a professional, neutral space to address relationship concerns. Here we work on improving communication, and work with patterns that affect the relationship. Sessions are guided in a way that supports both partners and the relationship as a whole.
A Safe, Professional Space
Sessions offer a calm, neutral environment where both partners can speak openly. The focus is on slowing conversations down and creating space for each person to be heard.
Thoughtful, Evidence-Based Work
Sessions draw on EFT, CBT, systems, attachment, and Gottman approaches. These guide how communication, conflict, and patterns within the relationship are explored.
Session Approach and Structure
Sessions may focus on what feels most relevant at the time or follow a more guided approach when helpful. The process adapts as the relationship changes.
Appointment
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Call Us on 071 873 0487 or simply book an appointment
Practical Information
Frequently Asked Questions
Couples counselling can be helpful whenever your relationship feels difficult to manage on your own. This may include ongoing conflict, feeling disconnected, struggling to communicate, or navigating a change or decision together. You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit.
It’s common for partners to feel unsure at first. You are welcome to book an initial session on your own to talk through concerns and explore next steps. Often this helps clarify how to invite your partner into the process.
The number of sessions varies. Some couples come for short-term support around a specific issue, while others attend over a longer period to work on deeper patterns. This can be discussed as you go.
Medical aid claims may be possible, depending on your plan. It’s best to check directly with your provider.
Sessions can be booked online or by getting in touch directly. Appointments are available in Sandton, Modderfontein, and online.
What Are You Waiting For...
Make an Appointment
Choose a time that works for you and begin at your own pace, or complete the form, call, or email me if you’d like to connect first.
Sandton Practice
Rochester Place: 173 Rivonia Rd, Morningside, Sandton,
Modderfontein Practice
Willow Worx: 16 Louvain Avenue Thornhill Estate, Modderfontein
counsellor@kaelasussman.co.za
Phone
071 873 0487