COUPLES THERAPY

Couples Therapy

Working with couples is a powerful process of rediscovery, deep listening, and finding shared direction. Amanda’s approach creates a space for both individuals to feel heard, seen, and valued — while co-creating a roadmap for healing and growth.

The Process

When working with couples, Amanda uses a structured yet flexible approach:

  1. Initial Exploration

    • Where are you now, as a couple?

    • Where would you like to be?

  2. Creative Tools for Insight
    Through creative therapeutic techniques, couples explore pathways to reach their desired connection. This process leads to the creation of a relationship roadmap, broken into manageable, actionable steps.

  3. Inner Wisdom & Self-Mastery
    Couples are supported in accessing their own inner knowing — developing self-awareness, emotional mastery, shared values, and clearer communication.

Key Tools & Methods

  • Role Reversal: Seeing the world from your partner’s perspective is transformative. Couples often get stuck in their own narrative. Role reversal offers a safe way to understand the other’s experience.

  • Mapping & Narrative Work: Couples may engage in drawing, road-mapping, or story-based reflection to uncover deeper meaning and solutions.

  • Drama Therapy Techniques: As a registered Drama Therapist, Amanda uses theatre-based tools like psychodrama, scene reenactment, and symbolic expression.

  • Family Constellations Principles: Amanda integrates methods rooted in systemic therapy and traditional Zulu wisdom — known as the Orders of Love — to help couples honour the full system they are part of.

Understanding the Deeper Patterns

Often, a recurring relationship conflict is rooted in personal wounds from the past — such as the feeling of not being valued or heard.

By working through these deeper layers:

  • Each partner is supported in reclaiming their self-worth.

  • The couple begins to break generational patterns.

  • Solutions emerge naturally from within the system.

In cases such as affairs or betrayal, Amanda’s systemic approach ensures that all individuals involved are acknowledged and honoured, allowing for healing without exclusion or blame.

Amanda Gifford

MA Counselling Psychology
HPCSA-registered Arts Therapist
Practice Number: 0266663

📱 Cell / WhatsApp: 078 499 6472