Marriage Counselling That Cuts
Through the Noise
Deep, Fast, Real Work for Alberta Couples - All Online,
No Travel Required
- You don’t need years of therapy.
- You need real tools that work.
At RLT Marriage Counselling with Rick Martin, we help couples break old patterns, rebuild trust, and reconnect—often in just a handful of sessions. Whether you're feeling stuck, hurt, or shut down in your relationship, you're not alone. And you're not out of options.
This is relationship work that gets to the core—without dragging things out.
Online Marriage Counselling for Alberta Couples Ready to Reconnect
If you're feeling stuck, hurt, or shut down in your relationship, you're not alone and you're not out of options. At RLT Marriage Counselling with Rick Martin, we offer a direct, no-nonsense approach that helps couples move from conflict to connection often within just a handful of sessions, all online.
Rooted in Relational Life Therapy (RLT), our work cuts below surface-level communication tools and gets to the deeper patterns and power struggles that hold couples back. We focus on fast, deep change—without dragging things out or looping in old stories that no longer serve you.
While every couple’s journey is unique, about 95–97% of those I work with report major breakthroughs within just 4–6 two-hour sessions.
These changes can feel transformative and sustaining them takes effort. RLT helps you not only reconnect, but also learn how to keep showing up with clarity, honesty, and love.
Learn more about Relational Life Therapy and what makes this work different.
Why I Offer a Free Intro Session
Most therapists charge $200–$250 for a first session—and many couples never return. Why? Because they didn’t feel heard, or the approach didn’t fit.
I do things differently.
I offer a free 30-minute introductory session so you can get a real sense of how I work before investing your time, energy, and money. No pressure. No commitment. Just an honest conversation to see what’s possible for your relationship.
Book Your Free Intro Session
Let’s explore whether this is the right fit—together.
Why Couples Choose RLT Marriage Counselling With Rick Martin
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95–97% of couples
I work with experience major breakthroughs in just 4–6 sessions.
✅ Most couples start reconnecting after just a few hours of real, honest work together.
✅ You’ll leave with tools that don’t just fix one fight—they change how you show up in your relationship.
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This isn’t talk therapy -
it’s active, practical, and built to create lasting change.
✅ Online sessions offer privacy, flexibility, and deep connection without travel or disruption to your family life.
✅ Sustaining change requires "continued effort to override old patterns".
What Happens In a Free Intro Session?
This 30-minute session isn’t therapy—and it’s not a sales pitch either. It’s a real conversation designed to help you make an informed choice.
Here’s how it works:
For the first 10 minutes, I’ll explain how I work and what makes my approach different from most mainstream mental health services.
I specialize exclusively in relationship and marriage counselling.
What I offer is considered “self-help” by the industry and by most insurance carriers—because relationship growth is not seen as a medically treatable concern.
This is not about diagnosis or symptom management.
This is about real change—fast, deep, and built on radical honesty.
After that, I’ll ask a few questions to get a sense of what’s going on in your relationship and what you’re hoping for.
We’ll talk about what working together could look like, and you’ll have space to ask anything you need to know.
Throughout the session, you’ll hear me use one phrase over and over again:
“If you choose to work with me…”
That’s intentional. There’s no pressure here.
I want you to
have a conversation together after this session—just the two of you—to decide whether this is a fit. Only then should you book your first full session.
You’ll walk away with:
- A clear understanding of what I offer
- An honest sense of whether my approach feels right for you
- The time and space to decide without pressure
Real Couples. Real Change. Real Stories.
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From Roommates to Reconnecting
One partner was ready to walk away. They felt like they’d become nothing more than roommates. Within 2–3 sessions, they were reconnecting in ways they hadn’t experienced in years.
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Rediscovering Love After the Nest Emptied
When the kids moved out and one partner retired, this couple realized they no longer knew each other. In just 4 sessions, they were booking romantic trips and learning how to love each other again—this time as individuals.
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Breaking the Cycle of Anger and Eggshells
One partner couldn’t seem to do anything right. The other was stuck in constant frustration. Three sessions in, the angry partner saw how their outbursts were impacting their children’s future relationships—and made a powerful shift.
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Blending a Stepfamily Without Blowing It Up
Blending their families nearly tore this couple apart. With 45 years of personal and professional experience in stepfamily dynamics, I helped them build healthy boundaries and a stronger home. The whole family began to walk together again—in just two sessions.
See if this work is right for you, book a free introductory call today.
What Makes This Work Different?
Relational Life Therapy (RLT) isn’t about symptom management or emotional venting.
It’s about facing the real issues—quickly, directly, and with compassion.
In RLT, we:
- Move from blame to accountability
- Cut through power struggles
- Work with the parts of you that resist change
- Build fierce intimacy through truth-telling and repair
This isn’t about staying stuck. It’s about showing up and doing the work—together.
Why Couples Choose RLT Marriage Counselling With Rick Martin
RLT Specialist
You’ll work with Alberta’s only fully certified RLT practitioner focused exclusively on couples. This is not general therapy. It’s deep, relational work—fast, honest, and built to create change.
Flexible Scheduling
You choose the session times that work best based on my live online calendar - day, evening, and weekend appointments are available.
Booking is simple and fully online. Life happens, so you can easily reschedule or adjust your session time without hassle.
Follow-up Support
Change doesn’t happen in a straight line. When things get messy between sessions, you can reach out by text or email for quick, supportive check-ins. I’ll help you stay on track while you build new skills. This keeps the momentum going between sessions and helps you stay accountable.
Online couples counselling in the privacy of your home
Services I Offer for Couples Across Alberta
Whether you’re in crisis, feeling disconnected, or simply want to strengthen your relationship, I offer specialized online services to help you move forward.
Virtual Counselling Sessions
Online sessions with no commute, no waitlists, and no judgment.
Meet from home, work, or separate locations—wherever you feel most comfortable. Flexible, secure, and designed for real connection.
Marriage Counselling
Marriage can lose its spark, break trust, or feel more like survival than connection. That doesn’t mean it’s over.
Marriage Counselling helps couples repair, rebuild, and reconnect using Relational Life Therapy. We’ll cut through the noise, name what’s real, and help you work toward lasting change—if you’re both ready to do the work.
Couples Counselling
Not all couples are married—but all relationships face stuck points.
Couples Counselling is for any stage of partnership: dating, long-term, LGBTQ+, co-parenting, or not sure where you stand. We work with what’s real, break old reactive patterns, and help you move forward with clarity and connection.
Relationship 911 – Couple Intensive
When a relationship is on the edge, waiting won’t help.
The Relationship 911 Couple Intensive is a focused 2.5-hour session designed to get beneath the chaos fast. If you’re in crisis, questioning the future, or trying to repair after betrayal, this session helps you find clarity, structure, and a plan forward.
Pre-Marital Road Map
When your relationship is in crisis, you don’t have time to wait or time to waste.
The Relationship 911 Couples Intensive is a customized, deep-dive weekend designed to help you and your partner move quickly from chaos to clarity. Whether you’re working toward repair or considering conscious uncoupling, this process gives you the space, tools, and honest guidance to figure out what’s truly next.
Most intensives are offered online, but in-person options are available.
Conscious Uncoupling
Not every relationship is meant to last forever—and how you end it matters.
Conscious Uncoupling helps couples separate with honesty, care, and clarity. We reduce conflict, protect what matters most (especially if you have children), and guide you toward closure that doesn’t create more harm.
Stepfamily Therapy
Not all families start from scratch—and when one of you brings kids into a new relationship, the dynamics can feel confusing, frustrating, and overwhelming.
Stepfamily Therapy is focused on loyalty binds, outsider tension, and role confusion. Whether you’re feeling shut out, unprioritized, or unsure how to parent together, this work gives you tools to lead with clarity, empathy, and connection.
Blended Family Counselling
When both partners bring children into a new household, the emotional and logistical complexity multiplies quickly.
Blended Family Counselling is about creating structure and connection in the middle of chaos—two parenting systems, clashing schedules, co-parent tensions, and step-sibling struggles. We’ll work together to help you build a unified couple foundation and lead your blended family with strength, compassion, and purpose.
RLT for Singles
You don’t have to be in a relationship to start working on your relationship life.
RLT for Singles is for individuals ready to understand their past patterns, make peace with themselves, and prepare for real, lasting connection. Whether you're healing from a breakup or wanting to stop repeating the same painful loops, this work helps you break cycles and start showing up differently—long before you meet someone new.
Welcome - I am Rick Martin
Helping Alberta couples rebuild trust, deepen connection, and navigate tough seasons together
At RLT Marriage Counselling, I see relationships as living, breathing systems that grow, shift, and sometimes stumble. I don’t believe relationships stay the same, and I don’t believe they should. Just like the seasons, there are natural cycles of connection, conflict, distance, and repair.
The problem isn’t that couples fight. It’s that most of us never learned how to repair after a fight.
Disagreements are normal. It’s how we come back to each other that really matters.
I don’t work from blame or shame. I work from understanding. I help couples navigate these ups and downs, uncover the old patterns that keep them stuck, and build practical skills to slow things down, reconnect, and build trust. This trust is not just with their partner, it is also with themselves.
This isn’t talk therapy. It’s fast, focused, relational work that can create real change, often in just a handful of sessions.
When you know what to expect in the life of a relationship, it becomes much easier to move through the hard moments.
If you’re ready to stop guessing, start repairing, and build a relationship you can feel proud of, I would love to help.
Whether you’re in Red Deer or anywhere across Alberta, let’s get to work.
Honest Answers About Couples Counselling
From Rick Martin