Couples & Relational Therapy Ottawa
When you know the pattern, but still find yourselves in it.
You may understand your patterns. You may know your attachment style. You may even recognize the argument while you're having it.
And still, something happens between you.
You reach harder. They pull away. You defend yourself instead of listening. You assume what the other person means before they've finished saying it.
Insight matters. But relationships have a way of showing us what we haven't quite worked through yet.
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I’m Marie-Pierre Castonguay, MSW, RSW, SEP, a Registered Social Worker and psychotherapist. Most clients simply call me Marie.
I’m naturally curious about people and relationships. I value warmth, honesty and humour, and I bring those parts of myself into my work. I care deeply about understanding people while also being willing to ask the questions that invite us to look at things from new perspective.
Sometimes the work is understanding. Sometimes it's doing something differently. And sometimes it's making more room for what is already there.
A Little about me
The person behind the practice
Relational Patterns
PACT & ATTACHMENT
Body & Nervous System
Somatic Experiencing
Stories &
Meaning
NARRATIVE THERAPY
Ways to work together
Different ways of exploring the patterns that shape how we relate to ourselves and each other
Couples Therapy
For understanding what happens between you.
The places you meet, the places you miss each other, what you each bring into the relationship, and how you want to live within it together.
Individual Therapy
For when insight hasn't quite translated into change.
Explore the stories, experiences and relational patterns that have shaped you, and become more intentional about what you want to carry forward.
Clinical Supervision
For therapists who want a thoughtful place to think about their work.
Collaborative supervision grounded in curiosity, ethics and relational thinking, with space to develop your own clinical voice.
From The Blog
Thoughtful writing about relationships, nervous systems, attachment, intimacy and what it means to live in connection with other people.
