Relationship Counselling Services for Alberta Couples
One Core Service. Many Starting Points.ο»Ώ
At RLT Marriage Counselling, these are not disconnected services.
They are different starting points into the same core work.
Relationship counselling using Relational Life Therapy.
Couples often arrive thinking the problem is communication, sex, betrayal, resentment, parenting tension, or the question of whether to stay together.
Those concerns matter.
But underneath them, there is usually a pattern.
That is where we work.
If you want to understand what to look for before booking, start here:
π Choosing the Right Marriage Counsellor (FAQ)
π How to Choose a Couples Counsellor (Full Guide)
These Are the Ways Couples Typically Begin This Work
You do not need to know which page fits perfectly before you start.
That is what the free introductory session is for.
The page that sounds closest to your situation simply helps you find your way in.
From there, we look at what is actually happening between you and what kind of support makes sense.
π Book your free introductory session
Sessions With Rick
Private sessions with Rick are the main pathway for couples who want focused, direct, relational work.
Sessions are usually 2 hours.
That gives us time to move past surface updates and work with the pattern in real time.
This may be the right path if you are working on:
- Communication breakdown
- Trust repair
- Emotional distance
- Resentment
- Sexual disconnection
- Stepfamily or blended family stress
- Uncertainty about the future of the relationship
This is not passive talk therapy.
It is active, structured relationship work.
π learn more about Relational Life Therapy
Relationship 911 - Intensive
Some couples need more continuity than regular sessions can provide.
Relationship 911 is a 3-day in-person intensive for couples who need focused, contained, deep relationship work.
It is not a separate kind of work.
It is the same Relational Life Therapy process delivered in a more immersive format.
This may be the right fit if the relationship is in crisis, betrayal has occurred, weekly sessions feel too slow, or the space between sessions makes the pattern harder to hold.
π Relationship 911 - Intensive
Group Work and Workshops
Some couples grow best through structured learning, shared experience, and group-based support.
Group work and workshops are designed for couples who want to strengthen skills, deepen connection, and keep practising relational tools outside of private sessions.
These formats are not usually the best starting point for crisis work.
They are strongest when couples are ready to learn, practise, and build alongside others.
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Events & Programs
π Rewriting the Rules
Find the Starting Point That Fits Your Relationship
Marriage Counselling
For married couples who feel stuck, distant, hurt, or caught in repeating conflict.
Marriage counselling helps couples rebuild trust, improve communication, and reconnect through direct, pattern-focused RLT work.
π Marriage Counselling
Couples Counselling
For couples at any stage of partnership.
You do not need to be married to do serious relationship work. Couples counselling supports dating partners, long-term partners, co-parenting partners, and committed couples who want to stop repeating old patterns.
π Couples Counselling
Premarital Counselling
For couples preparing for marriage or long-term commitment.
This work helps couples slow down, talk through what matters, and build relationship skills before pressure rises.
It is especially helpful for first-time couples and couples entering second or later marriages with children, history, or blended family realities.
Infidelity Recovery
For couples dealing with betrayal, broken trust, or the aftermath of an affair.
Infidelity recovery requires more than time. It requires truth, accountability, emotional safety, and a clear repair process.
π Infidelity Recovery
Relationship Burnout
For couples who feel more like coworkers, roommates, or exhausted co-managers of life.
This work focuses on resentment, role imbalance, mental load, emotional distance, and the slow loss of partnership.
π Relationship Burnout
Sexual Intimacy
For couples who still care about each other but feel distant, disconnected, or shut down sexually.
This is not sex therapy. It is relational work focused on rebuilding the conditions that support desire, safety, and intimacy.
π Sexual Intimacy
Stepfamily Counselling
For couples where one partner has children from a previous relationship and the other is trying to find their place.
Stepfamily work focuses on loyalty binds, outsider dynamics, parenting tension, and protecting the couple bond inside a complex family structure.
Blended Family Counselling
For couples where both partners bring children from previous relationships into the family system.
Blended family counselling helps couples build structure, reduce conflict, and lead together through co-parenting pressure, step-sibling stress, and competing household cultures.
π Blended Family Counselling
Conscious Uncoupling
For couples who may be ending the relationship and want to do it with clarity, care, and respect.
This work supports separation conversations, co-parenting clarity, grief, boundaries, and reducing harm during the ending process.
π Conscious Uncoupling
RLT for Singles
For individuals who want to understand old patterns before entering the next relationship.
RLT for Singles helps you build boundaries, recognize red flags, strengthen self-respect, and prepare for healthier connection.
π RLT for Singles
How Sessions Are Delivered
Most private sessions are available:
- Online across Alberta through secure Zoom
- In-person in Red Deer on Mondays and Thursdays
Relationship 911 is different.
It is delivered as an in-person intensive, either in Red Deer or through a privately arranged off-site format.
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Online Couples Counselling Sessions
π In-Person Counselling in Red Deer
Why Relational Life Therapy?
RLT focuses on what actually changes relationships:
- Patterns
- Accountability
- Repair
- Emotional safety
- Boundaries
- Relational skills
- Real-time change
We do not spend years circling the same story.
We work with what is happening between you now and build the skills to do something different.
π core relational skills we teach
Frequently Asked Questions About Services
How do we know which service page fits us?
You do not need to figure that out perfectly.
Choose the page that sounds closest to where you are right now. The free introductory session is where we look at what is actually happening and what kind of support makes sense.
Are these separate services?
Not really.
They are different entry points into the same core work: relationship counselling using Relational Life Therapy.
The issue may be betrayal, burnout, sexual distance, communication, or family structure. The deeper work is still pattern-focused relationship repair.
Do you offer online and in-person sessions?
Yes.
Most private sessions are available online across Alberta or in-person in Red Deer on Mondays and Thursdays. Relationship 911 is delivered in person only.
What does counselling cost?
Private sessions are $200 per hour and are usually booked as 2-hour sessions.
The free introductory session is the best starting point before making any financial commitment.
π Cost Comparison
What if we are not sure whether we want to stay together?
That is a valid place to start.
You do not need certainty before reaching out. Some couples come in to rebuild. Some come in to decide. The work helps create clarity either way.
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Conscious Uncoupling
π Relationship 911 - Intensive
Start With One Conversation
You do not need to diagnose your relationship.
You do not need to choose the perfect page.
You just need to start with one honest conversation.
In the free introductory session, we look at where you are, what is happening between you, and what kind of support makes sense.
π Book your free introductory session
Not Ready Yet?
If you want to understand the process before booking, you can:
π Start Here
"If you’re ready to take the next step toward rebuilding trust, reconnecting emotionally, or learning the relational skills no one taught you, I’m ready to help."
