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Online Couples Therapy in Ontario

Virtual couples therapy for partners across Ontario. If the same arguments keep coming back, or trust has been broken and you don’t know how to rebuild it, couples counselling can help illuminate the path forward. Join together or from separate locations, over secure video.
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What Brings Canadian Couples to Therapy

What you’re missing isn’t each other. It’s the light between you.

You keep having the same conversation. Sometimes different words get used, but it’s the same conversation. And it usually ends one of two ways: a blow-up, or an icy silence that lasts for days.
Or maybe the conversation isn’t even there anymore. You run the house and sync your calendar, but somewhere along the way you stopped really talking. People in relationships rarely drift apart all at once. Distance creeps in, and suddenly, you can feel lonely sitting right next to each other.
Whatever brings you here, know that you’re in the right place and you don’t have to keep struggling alone. Couples therapy at Luceris makes room for both of you. We’ll work together to clear up the fog between you and your partner and give you clarity on the next steps.
Couples come to us navigating:
  • Communication breakdowns and conflict cycles
  • Emotional disconnection or physical intimacy struggles
  • Infidelity, betrayal, and rebuilding trust
  • Role transitions, such as becoming parents
  • Coping with trauma, addiction, or mental health strain in the relationship
  • Relationship ambivalence or fear of separation
  • Sexual intimacy issues (mismatched desire, arousal blocks, or emotional distance)
The concerns listed here are just examples of what we see—and help couples work through—every day at Luceris. Most couples carry things that need to be worked out, whether they name them or not. You don’t need to be in crisis to reach out, and you don’t need to be sure the relationship will continue. Some couples come to us ready to rebuild, others are still deciding if that’s what they want. Whatever phase you’re in, you’re welcome.
If you’re not sure where to start, reach out by phone or email. Every story deserves a beginning, and every beginning deserves a light to guide it.
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Modalities That May Be Integrated

Couples counselling at Luceris draws from a range of clinical approaches. Your therapist may integrate several, depending on what fits the two of you.

Attachment-Based & Emotionally Focused Approaches

Start here if the same fight keeps coming back, or if you've drifted into distance. This work looks at what each of you needs from the other underneath the conflict.
Emotionally Focused Therapy-Informed Couples Work
You’ll work on de-escalating conflict cycles, repairing emotional injuries, and rebuilding a secure connection through an attachment-based approach.
Internal Family Systems-Informed Relational Work
You’ll each come to understand why you react the way you do, and how those protective responses shape conflict and intimacy between you. This model explores the inner “parts” that drive how you each respond.
Gottman-Informed Couples Work
You’ll build practical tools for communication and conflict, alongside deeper emotional and physical intimacy. This draws on a research-based model developed by the Gottman Institute.
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
You’ll find movement in arguments that have felt permanently stuck, through a mix of practical change and genuine acceptance of your enduring differences.
Relational Life Therapy
You’ll each be asked to look honestly at your own role in the patterns you’ve fallen into. It’s a direct approach, with particular attention to how gender shapes what each of you brings.
Discernment Counselling
You’ll get clarity on whether to work on the relationship or step away, without being pushed toward either. This is a structured, time-limited approach for mixed-agenda couples, where one partner is leaning out and the other wants to stay.

Meet Your Therapist

Couples therapy at Luceris is led by Francesco Addesi, Registered Psychotherapist (BA, MA, RP) and Director & Founder of Luceris Psychotherapy Clinic. His approach blends evidence-based cognitive, behavioural, and experiential methods, and he continues to deepen his clinical expertise through ongoing research, supervision, and advanced study.
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What to Expect in Couples Therapy

Online couples therapy at Luceris is a shared space where both partners are heard, held entirely online. Sessions are 75 minutes and $250.00 per session, over secure video from wherever you are in Ontario, with evening and weekend appointments available.
The work goes deeper than conflict management. Learning to argue better matters, but it rarely addresses why the same argument keeps returning. Your therapist works with the patterns underneath: the attachment needs, protective responses, and old injuries that shape how you reach for each other and how you pull away.

Start Here

Either partner can book a free 15-minute consultation. It’s a short call to describe what’s happening, ask questions, and get a sense for the work, with no obligation to book further.
If you decide to continue, you’ll be set up with access to our secure client portal, where you can view and manage your appointments.

Joining a Session

Sessions run through the Jane app, a Canadian platform built for healthcare providers. You’ll receive a secure link to join your session.
You can join together from one device or separately from two, whichever suits your schedule and your comfort. All you need is a device with a stable internet connection and some privacy.

Only You?

This is common, and it isn’t a dead end. Some partners begin with individual sessions and move into couples work when both are ready.
Others start with discernment counselling, a short, structured process for when one partner is leaning out and the other wants to stay. Either way, reaching out on your own is a good way to start.

Where Therapy Fits

Sessions are 75 minutes, with evening and weekend appointments available, so therapy doesn’t have to compete with work or kids. Visit frequency isn’t fixed: you decide how often and can make changes.
Because Luceris is fully virtual, you can meet from anywhere in Ontario, without a commute, a babysitter, or a waiting room.
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FAQs About Online Couples Therapy

Does Online Couples Therapy Work?

Online couples therapy is an effective format for working on your relationship. Research reviews of couples and family therapy delivered over video have found it effective, and the core of the work stays the same as in a room: a therapist who keeps the conversation safe for both of you, slows things down when they escalate, and helps you see the pattern underneath. Many couples also find it easier to keep going when there’s no commute or childcare to arrange.
The number of sessions couples therapy takes depends on what you’re working on and how long the pattern has been in place. Some couples come for a focused stretch around a specific issue, while others work through patterns that have built up over years. Discernment counselling is shorter by design. You and your therapist will talk about pace early on and revisit it as things change, so you’re never signing up for an open-ended number of sessions.
Couples therapy at Luceris is $250.00 for a 75-minute session. Many extended health benefit plans include coverage for psychotherapy, and you’ll receive a receipt after each appointment to submit for reimbursement. Plans differ in how they handle couples sessions, so check with your provider before you claim. For details on insurance and policies, see our Virtual Therapy FAQs.
Luceris offers online couples therapy to partners located anywhere in Ontario, including couples who currently live apart. Your therapist is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, and sessions take place over secure video, with evening and weekend appointments available.
If your partner isn’t sure about couples therapy, you can still start on your own. Hesitation usually comes from somewhere reasonable, such as fear of being blamed or a worry that therapy will confirm something they don’t want to hear.
You’re welcome to book the free consultation on your own to talk through how to raise it. If either of you is unsure whether the relationship should continue, discernment counselling is designed for exactly that.
The difference between couples therapy and discernment counselling is whether both partners want to work on the relationship. Couples therapy assumes you both do, and focuses on improving it.
Discernment counselling is for mixed-agenda couples, where one partner is leaning toward ending things and the other wants to stay. It’s short-term and structured, typically no more than five sessions, and aimed at clarity about direction rather than immediate change. If you both decide to work on the relationship, you can move into couples therapy from there.
Online couples therapy is a good fit for couples in all kinds of relationships and stages, whether you’re in crisis or want to address a pattern before it hardens. Couples come to Luceris as married and long-term partners, dating couples deciding whether to build something more serious, couples navigating the transition to parenthood, and couples rebuilding after infidelity. We also work with LGBTQ+ couples, partners in long-distance relationships, and mixed-agenda couples, where one partner is unsure about staying.
If what you’re working through is mainly personal, individual therapy may be a better place to start, and the free consultation is a good place to sort that out.

Tend the Light Within

Therapy at Luceris begins with a quiet hope that you come to recognize:
The Light you seek is the light you carry.

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