Amanda Gruhn & Ron Dowd
Couples Therapy, Personal Therapy, Psychotherapy, Counselling
Amanda and Ron bring a unique, compassionate, and highly effective approach to couples therapy, relationship coaching, and individual counselling and psychotherapy.
Whether you’re struggling with communication breakdowns, trust issues, intimacy challenges, or personal obstacles like anxiety and self-doubt, we provide evidence-based therapy tailored to your needs.
Our goal? To help you rebuild connection, strengthen emotional bonds, and cultivate a fulfilling life and partnership.
About Amanda
Therapist, Supervisor, Originator of Depth EnquiryTM
Read more about Amanda and her specialties.
Mob 0422 978 367
About Ron
Gestalt and Jungian Psychotherapist, Artist, Poet
Read more about Ron and his specialties.
Mob 0422 975 179
Our Services
About our Practice
Two psychotherapists, passionate about counselling, relationships and therapy. We’ve worked from our Sydney office and online since 2006.
Resources
A library of the resources we offer, either in person, or as articles and blog posts on this site and on other sites.
Couples Counselling & Therapy
We offer Here-And-Now Gestalt, Attachment Theory, EFT, Psychoanalytic & Archetypal, and Psycho-educational approaches.
Individual & Personal
We provide a safe place to explore and work on what people need to get relief – whether it’s through a crisis, a change in life circumstances, an addiction (in whatever form), difficulties in relationships, gender and sexuality, or from a possibly old or enduring sense of malaise or lack.
Soul-Based, Dream & Contemplative
We use the word soul in the sense understood by James Hillman and others; as a way of seeing the world with imagination, seeing the imaginative possibilities of our natures, of inquiring into modes of being that recognise all realities as symbolic or metaphorical.
Family
Understanding the family group with its own dynamics and yearnings. Working with siblings, mothers and children, father and children, in-laws and members of wider family groups.
Depth Enquiry
Amanda has developed Depth Enquiry during her work with clients suffering from a range of trauma-related symptoms.
Online Couples Course
Find out about our online course that distills 19 years experience in our work with couples.
Contact Us
Check our location on the map (5/32 Orwell Street, Potts Point, Sydney), check transport suggestions, or send us an email.
We offer our online course
“Skills in Couple Communication”
Sign up for the course below.
Popular Articles
Over the past ten years we’ve written blog posts and articles that we hope support people in their relationships and in their inner work. Here are some of the really popular ones.
- What to expect if you come to one of us for couples therapy.
- How we unintentionally bring the attachment dynamics, from early in our lives, into our intimate adult relationships – and what we can do about this: An Adult Attachment Primer.
- How to increase the level of intimacy in a relationship. Worth re-reading from time to time! 12 Timeless Tips for Revitalising Your Relationship.
- Rustic simplicity and freshness! Wabi Sabi and Relationships.
- 10 Tips for Secure Couples.
- A powerful technique (if done right) for shifting a relationship towards intimacy: The Subtle Power of Reflective Listening
- A different way of discussing our upsets: Three Simple Sentences.
- Understanding how the meanings we make can fuel our behaviours: Meanings and Behaviours in Couple Relationships.
- Reality versus Security questions and how distinguishing between them can be key for smooth couple dynamics!
- Some Books about Men’s Development.
We’re happy to talk & hear your concerns
Reach out to Ron on 0422 975 179 or Amanda on 0422 978 367, or make an enquiry on our Contact page.