If you are looking for the best marriage counsellor in Melbourne, the more useful question than who is best is whose approach actually fits what your marriage needs right now. We are Grant and Christine Wattie, and we work with Melbourne couples online from New Zealand. We have been married 40 years, we are Gottman, Imago and EFT trained, and we have spent more than two decades helping couples come back from the brink, including our own marriage when it nearly ended.

For Melbourne couples, working online means you are not limited to who happens to practise nearby or who has space on their waitlist. You get experienced, results-focused help from your own home, with an easy schedule despite the distance, because the time difference between Melbourne and New Zealand is small. The work itself is the same as sitting in a room together.

What you are really searching for is someone who can help, and help quickly. We are not traditional therapists who keep couples in open-ended weekly sessions. We find the dynamic the two of you are caught in and change it, working at the level of who you are being. Around 85 to 90 percent of couples who do the work see the dynamic begin to shift within 7 days.

We meet Melbourne couples wherever they are, from quiet drift to full crisis. For couples facing an affair, a threatened separation, or a complete shutdown, we use the Phoenix Protocol. For the broader rebuild we use the Inside-Out Method and the 9 Principles of Love Without Limits. The online format takes nothing away from the depth.

The first step is a free 15-minute call. You tell us where things are, and we are honest about what we think is possible and whether we are the right fit.

If you want a marriage counsellor for Melbourne who works online and gets to the real issue fast, book a free 15-minute call. Tell us where things are. We will be honest about what is possible.

Do you work with Melbourne couples? Yes. We work with Melbourne couples online from New Zealand. The small time difference makes scheduling easy, and the online work is identical in depth to meeting in person.

Is online counselling as good as seeing someone in Melbourne? Yes. The work happens at the level of the dynamic between you, which translates fully online, so the depth is the same. Many Melbourne couples prefer the convenience of working from home.

What if our marriage is in serious trouble? That is what the Phoenix Protocol is for, our approach for affairs, threatened separation, or shutdown. We help couples stabilise quickly and then rebuild.

How do we start? With a free 15-minute call. You tell us what is happening, and we tell you plainly whether we can help and what the path looks like.