FOR COUPLES
Reconnect, Repair & Move Forward Together.
If something in your relationship isn’t working, I help couples understand what’s happening, change repeating patterns and build greater emotional safety, communication, trust and connection.
Couples counselling and relationship support online across Australia. Individual sessions, structured 13-week program and bespoke support.
BOOK A FREE 30-MINUTE RELATIONSHIP ASSESSMENT
Explore the 13-Week Conscious Couples Program Below
20+ years mindfulness & personal development · 10,000+ hours facilitation · PACFA Registered Clinical Therapist · Online Australia-wide
EMOTIONAL SAFETY · COMMUNICATION · TRUST · REPAIR · INTIMACY · BOUNDARIES · CONNECTION
FROM REPEATING PATTERNS
TO SAFETY, CONNECTION & TRUST
Many couples know something isn’t working, but struggle to understand what keeps driving the conflict or distance. My approach helps you recognise the cycle, understand what lies beneath it and develop healthier ways of communicating, repairing and relating.
How couples get stuck
ESCALATION
Fighting harder, but getting further apart
Criticism, blame, defensiveness, raised voices, power struggles, circular arguments and feeling unheard.
WITHDRAWAL
Protecting yourself by pulling away
Shutting down, avoiding difficult conversations, stonewalling, emotional distance, resentment and living like housemates.
LOSS OF TRUST
No longer feeling safe or secure
Broken agreements, betrayal, secrecy, jealousy, accumulated hurt, insecurity and loss of affection or intimacy.
What we build instead
EMOTIONAL SAFETY
Honesty without attack or withdrawal
Regulation, respect, stronger boundaries and greater care for each other’s emotions and needs.
COMMUNICATION
Understanding and being understood
Clear expression, deeper listening, less defensiveness, greater empathy and more constructive conversations.
CONNECTION & REPAIR
Finding your way back to each other
Responsibility, trust, affection, intimacy and the ability to repair after difficult moments.
Choose How You Want To Work
Different couples need different levels of structure, support and commitment.
Choose the way of working that best fits where you are now.
13-WEEK CONSCIOUS COUPLES PROGRAM $4,999
Structured Relationship Program + Personal Support
For couples ready to work deeply and consistently on the patterns and challenges that need their attention.
The 13-Week Conscious Couples Program combines practical relationship training with personalised couples support to help you create greater emotional safety, clearer communication and meaningful change in the way you relate.
Understanding
See the pattern between you
Recognise the triggers, protective responses and deeper needs driving conflict or disconnection.
Connection
Create emotional safety together
Develop regulation, honest communication, deeper listening and greater care for each other’s experience.
Repair
Change how you meet difficult moments
Strengthen responsibility, boundaries, trust and your capacity to find your way back to each other.
Whats Included
13 Weeks of Structured Relationship Work
A clear pathway for understanding, practising and integrating healthier ways of relating.
Weekly Couples Session
Personalised support to explore challenges, uncover patterns and identify the most helpful next step.
Individual Practices
Practical exercises to build self-awareness, emotional regulation, stronger boundaries and relational responsibility.
Couples Practices
Structured conversations and shared exercises to strengthen communication, safety, trust and connection.
Midweek Check-In and Reflection
Simple prompts to help you stay connected to the work between sessions.
Weekly Training Resources
Video lessons, worksheets, audio practices and visual tools to deepen understanding and support integration.
WhatsApp Support Thread
Between-session support for questions, reflections and real relationship challenges as they arise.
ONE-OFF $230
Focused Support for What’s Happening Now
Bring a specific conflict, communication difficulty, relationship decision or situation you want to understand and work through.
A focused couples counselling session to help you see what is happening more clearly, identify the pattern keeping you stuck and determine the next most helpful step.
Best for: a specific issue, immediate relationship challenge or couples wanting to experience the work before committing to something longer.
SELF-LED $399
The Framework At Your Own Pace
Learn practical skills for better communication and deeper connection. Understand your patterns and practise new ways of relating in your own time.
A flexible, structured process for couples wanting expert guidance without scheduled sessions. Use the tools at your own pace to support communication, repair, trust and lasting connection.
Best for: couples wanting a private, flexible course whether experiencing conflict or deepening an already meaningful relationship.
BESPOKE
Ongoing Support Built Around Your Relationship
Flexible ongoing support shaped around your relationship, circumstances and the areas that need your attention.
Every relationship is different. Rather than following a fixed program, we create an arrangement that allows us to work with what is most important as it unfolds. Make it work for you.
Best for: couples wanting flexible, ongoing relationship support, in a way that suits individual time, energy and financial capacity.
NOT SURE WHAT YOU NEED?
If you’re not yet sure which level of support is right for you, book a free 30-minute conversation.
I will take you through a couples assessment and we can talk about what is happening, what kind of support would be most helpful, and whether a one-off session, bespoke arrangement or the 13-Week Conscious Couples Program is the right fit.
What Couples are Saying
Deepen Understanding
See more clearly what is happening beneath the surface. Understanding your relationship cycle creates the awareness needed for meaningful change.
Process
Turn towards the hurt, fear and unmet needs underneath the reaction. What was driving the cycle becomes something you can consciously work with together.
Practice
Build practical skills in regulation, communication, listening, emotional safety, boundaries, responsibility, repair and intimacy.
Experiment
Meet each other differently. Try new ways of responding, notice what happens and discover a New Way of Relating by bringing what is happening in here to what is happening between you.
About Mike
For more than a decade, Mike has worked closely with couples through relationship counselling, couples sessions, intensives, workshops and relationship programs across the Byron Shire and online.
His work brings together more than 20 years of study and practice in mindfulness, counselling, human development and relationships, with thousands of hours supporting people through meaningful personal and relational change.
As the creator of the Conscious Couples Program, Mike helps couples understand repeating patterns, build emotional safety, communicate more honestly and develop the capacity to repair, reconnect and move forward together.
Michael Vaccaro, BCouns, GradCertAppMind, CertMedHolCouns
PACFA Registered Clinical Therapist | Creator of the Conscious Couples Program