Couples Coaching in Devon UK & Online

Practical support for couples and individuals facing communication breakdown, recurring arguments, loss of intimacy, trust issues, or feeling stuck in the same patterns.

“ We were stuck in a cycle of avoidance-anxiety, consistently triggering each other.
We now relate and communicate from a more intentional and less reactive place.”

M

Break Free of Stuck Patterns

Relational Life Therapy demystifies what's happening when conflict takes over, and gives you the skills to transform your relationship.

Break free from the cycle and respond to reconnect.

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Step 1

SEE THE DYNAMIC
First, we map the pattern clearly - what each of you does that keeps the cycle spinning.

Step 2

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR PART
Whether you get defensive, avoidant, explosive, or shut down, these reactions are protective strategies you learned in childhood. RLT helps you recognise and manage your reactions, so they don't run the show.

Step 3

RESPOND DIFFERENTLY
With more awareness and agency, you can make new choices. You'll learn practical skills to navigate rupture and repair with grace. Skills that will sustain a healthy, authentic relationship long after coaching ends.

Learn Relational Skills

What I love most about RLT is its direct, skills-based approach. Having shared language and practical tools transforms relationships.

It's a bit like learning to ride a bike or play an instrument - it might feel clunky at first, but once you get the hang of it, your relationship becomes a source of joy, safety, and aliveness.

Skills You'll Learn:

  • Feedback Wheel – Move through rupture and repair cycles effectively and rebuild trust

  • Active Listening – Communicate so you both feel truly seen and understood

  • Love Languages – Identify and negotiate your needs so you both get the love you want

  • Boundaries Work – Set healthy limits and ask for what you need

  • Emotional Intelligence – Attune to your partner’s emotions

  • Relational Time-Out – Take space in a way that feels secure for both of you

  • Containment & Vulnerability – Express emotions without overwhelming or shutting out your partner

  • Cherishing Rituals – Build rhythms that maintain closeness and passion

“ We have all round better communication. We acknowledge and appreciate each other, and spend less time in conflict. ”

Rachel G

How Your Relationship Can Feel

Imagine waking up next to your partner and feeling genuine warmth instead of walking on eggshells.

Picture having a disagreement that actually gets resolved - where you feel closer on the other side.

This is what becomes possible:

  • Conflict doesn't spiral - you navigate tension with skill and come back to connection quickly

  • You feel understood and appreciated - not just in the big moments, but in the everyday rhythms of life together

  • Intimacy deepens - emotionally, physically, and in all the small ways that make you feel alive

  • You trust each other with your vulnerabilities, knowing they'll be met with care

  • Playfulness and joy return - the lightness and laughter that first drew you together

  • You feel secure in the relationship, even when things get hard

  • Connection feels effortless - not because problems disappear, but because you have the tools to move through them together

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“ The tools we've learned have given us so much more space for patience, fun and understanding.”

Amber

My Journey

My journey to becoming a relationship coach starts with my own lived experience of what it takes to turn it around.

The love was always there, but our cycles of conflict and blame, and anxious-avoidant dynamics made the relationship unsustainable.

Now 10 years in, I can safely say we wouldn’t have made it without Relational Life Therapy.

The tools and skills learnt have now become second nature, and we use them on an almost daily basis to maintain the loving, thriving (perfectly imperfect) relationship we now have.

In 2022 I decided to train with the Relational Life Institute, because I wanted others to experience the kind of radical and lasting transformation that I know is possible.

I can walk beside you, with empathy for your stuck situation, and the skills and knowledge to help you out of it.

Experience:

  • Certified Relational Life Therapy (RLT) Coach trained with the Relational Life Institute

  • Practicing for 3 years and certified for 1

  • Certified Life Coach with the MOE Foundation 2021

  • Trauma-informed practitioner

  • 9 years experience as a group process work facilitator

  • In personal relational therapy for 5 years

  • 9 years in a committed relationship (my biggest teacher!)

I believe that everyone can benefit from this work regardless of how you identify or your relational style. I welcome couples from all backgrounds and have personal and professional experience with ethical non-manogany and LGBTQ+ communities.

Find Out More About RLT

Watch this 6 minute video to hear a little more about Relational Life Therapy and if it’s the right approach for you.

Testimonials

  • "We feel so grateful to Gaia, we’ve asked her to hold a special 10 year ceremony for our relationship"

    Since working with Gaia, we’ve both really noticed how we're much more aware of our patterns, and how we can find regulation much sooner. Of course, we're not perfect, but just by developing this awareness - we can feel the smaller ripples have flowed us in to more compassion (which was frankly very burnt out when we met Gaia).

    The tools we've leaned have given us so much more space for patience, fun and understanding, and that is really a wonderful gift in the process.

    We feel so grateful to Gaia, we’ve asked her to hold a special 10 year ceremony for our relationship - which we’re also getting married at, so thank you Gaia - you have really transformed our capacity for more love and life with your tools.

    Amber

  • "At first I was a bit skeptical - in my mind relationship therapy felt taboo, something for married couples who couldn’t see eye to eye. These feelings quickly dissipated once we started the process."

    Gaia skilfully guided us to the root of why we felt so locked into certain patterns, which led to a deeper understanding and more compassion for one another. More than just talking about things on a conceptual level, she taught us valuable tools and techniques with which to keep our relationship on track. We still get things wrong quite a bit, but we’ve seen so much improvement in the way we communicate, and the way we support each other.

    It’s been so helpful to have someone to support us in our relationship - I would genuinely recommend her to any couple who are going through difficulties, or who feel they could use some help in getting unstuck in relational dynamics. 

    Thomas

  • "Before seeing Gaia we did talking therapy for over six months, we seemed to spend hours getting even more tied up in the problems. This approach is so different"

    I feel very lucky we found Gaia. The relational coaching has been worth more than I can say, how can you put a price on something that helps you rediscover the love and joy you have for your partner after a really challenging period.

    Before seeing Gaia we did talking therapy for over six months, we seemed to spend hours getting even more tied up in the problems. This approach is so different, it is inherently positive and future facing. It also truly acknowledges pain and difficult emotion but through embodiment rather than overthinking. It feels like we are so much more connected, like we are breaking through problems that had felt impossible.

    Anna M

  • "We really practice listening and hearing each other, and have all round better communication"

    Working with Gaia has brought us closer together and has enabled us to be more vulnerable, kind and spacious towards one another, especially in conflict.

    We really practice listening and hearing each other, and have all round better communication. We take more time to acknowledge and appreciate each other, and seem to spend less time in conflict. We have learned more of our own and each other’s boundaries and honour and respect these. We have dropped the prison off perfection and understand greater what it takes to be in a committed relationship.

    Rachel G

  • "We were helped through a very sticky situation that without the sessions may have been too much for us to navigate."

    Gaia held the space with kindness, humility and great care, drawing on her own experience & vulnerability with refreshing honesty and a lightness we both appreciated too. We were helped through a very sticky situation that without the sessions may have been too much for us to navigate.

    The sessions also used embodiment techniques which for me was another great bonus over talking therapy alone. I can only see how this work would help any couple if both come in open, & flexible enough to try different ways of relating and are always ready to keep working on themselves for their own and the good of the partnership they are in.

    Richard B

  • "Gaia was amazing at showing how to observe our automatic reactions, self-regulate through grounding techniques and bring us back into co-regulation. "

    My partner and I started seeing Gaia back in 2023, at a point where our relationship was suffering due to unaddressed attachment issues. We were stuck in a cycle of avoidance-anxiety, consistently triggering each other.

    Gaia was amazing at showing how to observe our automatic reactions, self-regulate through breathing and grounding techniques, look inwards at heal our inner child’s wounds, and bring that back into co-regulation.

    Over time, we found much healthier ways to relate and communicate from a more intentional and less reactive place. I would highly recommend Gaia’s compassionate and holistic approach to any couples going through similar struggles”

    M

Rates and Booking

  • £150 for 75 minutes for couples

  • £180 for 90 minutes for couples

  • £100 for one hour for individuals

  • Sessions held via zoom or in person

  • Office Hours 10 - 6:15 Tue | Wed | Thur

New clients are required to start with a block of 6 sessions, weekly or every other week, after which you can book another block or switch to rolling.

Payment plans available on request.

I am based new Newton Abbot, Exeter and Totnes (Devon UK)

To work with me please book a free call to find out if this is a good fit, or drop me a message on my contact page

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