The deepest love is still ahead of you
For long-term couples who refuse to settle for comfortable companionship.
Long-term love isn’t a slow fade. It’s the deepest love available to you
Most couples therapy works on what’s broken. We work on what’s possible. After years of clinical practice and hundreds of couples, we’ve come to believe the love you can build at year 20 is richer than anything available at year 2.
But it doesn’t happen by accident. The default trajectory of long-term love is drift, not depth. The work is to keep choosing each other, in body, in bed, on the trail, on the hard nights.
What you’ll learn
EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy)
The gold standard of couples therapy, based on attachment science. We teach you to find the emotional cycle you keep getting stuck in, and how to step out of it together.
Sex Therapy
Tarisha is a trained sex therapist. We teach you that sex isn’t a bonus, it’s a barometer. The work happens in the bedroom too.
Polarity
The masculine and feminine charge between you isn’t outdated, it’s the engine of desire. When polarity dies, sex dies. When it returns, everything returns.
Erotic Embodiment & Tantra
Bodies matter. Pleasure is medicine. The body knows things conversation can’t reach. We work somatically, not just verbally.
Adventure
Long-term love stays alive when you keep choosing each other into the unknown. We use NZ landscape, hiking, and shared challenge as part of the work, not the reward.
Three doors. Take the one that fits
Couples therapy
For when you want to start in the room, weekly or fortnightly.
EFT and sex therapy in our Auckland practice or online globally. Tarisha is registered with the New Zealand Association of Counsellors. Most couples come with a recurring fight or a specific block they want to move through.
Book a session →The New Chapter of Us
A 2-day private intensive, just the two of you.
Two full days of private work with Tarisha. No group container. Equivalent of three months of weekly therapy, in one block. Auckland practice or online.
See dates →The Wanaka Adventure
Six days. Six couples. The full braid in the Southern Alps.
The flagship retreat. Six days at Lake Wanaka, two private couples sessions, helicopter to a remote valley (weather permitting), six couples per intake, three intakes per year.
Apply for the next retreat →Couples therapy and adventure retreats
Tarisha is a trained relationship and sex therapist with over a decade of clinical practice. Her training includes Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT), Hakomi somatic psychotherapy, Gottman couples therapy, somatic trauma work, sex therapy, tantra, and biodynamic breathwork facilitation. She has a Master’s in Counselling and a postgraduate degree in psychotherapy, and is registered with the New Zealand Association of Counsellors. In a past life she was a chartered accountant, before she found her real work.
Read more about us →“We came in flatmates after 22 years. We left lovers. Not because of one breakthrough conversation, but because they showed us how to keep choosing each other every day. Still doing the work. Still amazed.”