About Benslyne Avril – Couples Therapist in Ottawa

Benslyne Avril helps couples in Ottawa navigate communication breakdowns, emotional disconnection, and relationship uncertainty. Whether clients are experiencing constant conflict, considering separation, or struggling to reconnect after years together, she provides evidence-based couples therapy that addresses the root issues – not just surface symptoms.

Her clients are often high-performing professionals, executive couples, and empty nesters who feel stuck between staying and leaving. They’re dealing with trust issues after infidelity, intimacy challenges, or the strain of balancing demanding careers with meaningful connection. Benslyne specializes in helping couples rebuild stronger relationships.

As a Registered Psychotherapist in Ottawa’s Westboro neighborhood, she offers both in-person and virtual therapy across Ontario in English or French. Sessions use proven methods including the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy to help couples move from crisis to connection.

Relationship Challenges Benslyne Treats

Couples seek Benslyne’s help when they’re experiencing communication breakdowns that lead to constant arguing or complete shutdown. Many are dealing with emotional disconnection – living as roommates rather than partners, struggling with intimacy, or questioning whether they still love each other. Others come after discovering infidelity and need help deciding whether to rebuild trust or separate. Empty nesters often arrive feeling lost after their kids leave home, realizing they don’t know how to relate to each other anymore.

Individual clients work with Benslyne to understand relationship patterns that keep repeating – choosing unavailable partners, sabotaging healthy relationships, or struggling with anxious or avoidant attachment. Others are navigating the aftermath of separation, processing grief and loss, or dealing with the intersection of career burnout and relationship strain.

Executive couples and high-achieving professionals face unique challenges: balancing demanding careers with relationship needs, managing stress that spills into their partnership, or navigating major life transitions like career changes, relocation, or retirement. Benslyne helps them ensure life changes strengthen – rather than fracture – their most important relationship.

How Benslyne Works With Couples

Benslyne uses the Gottman Method, a research-backed approach that helps couples build friendship, manage conflict constructively, and create shared meaning in their relationship. This method is particularly effective for couples who want concrete tools and strategies to improve their communication and connection.

She also integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help partners understand the deeper emotional needs driving their relationship patterns. EFT is especially helpful for couples dealing with trust issues, emotional disconnection, or attachment wounds.

For individuals exploring relationship challenges, Benslyne draws from Attachment Theory and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful patterns and develop healthier ways of relating.

Is Couples Therapy Right for You?

Therapy with Benslyne is effective for couples who are:

• Experiencing constant conflict or complete emotional shutdown
• Considering separation and need clarity on whether to stay or leave
• Rebuilding trust after infidelity or a major betrayal
• Empty nesters struggling to reconnect after years of child-focused living
• High-achieving professionals whose careers are straining their relationship
• Facing intimacy challenges or feeling more like roommates than partners

She also works with individuals navigating relationship patterns, attachment issues, or post-separation healing.

Bilingual services available in English and French. Sessions offered in-person at the Westboro office (202-1355 Wellington Street West) or virtually across Ontario.

Book Your Free Consultation

Benslyne offers a free 15-minute consultation to discuss your relationship challenges and determine if couples therapy is the right next step. Sessions available in English or French, in-person in Ottawa’s Westboro or virtually across Ontario.