Divorce Counselling

Find Clarity and Strength with Divorce Counselling.

Divorce Counselling

Divorce counselling is a specialized therapeutic process aimed at helping couples navigate marital distress with the goal of healing and reconciliation. Unlike counselling that supports separation, this therapy focuses on identifying the issues threatening the marriage and working to repair the relationship. Smrithi Nishanth at Zest Counselling provides a compassionate space where couples explore their emotions, improve communication, and rebuild their partnership with expert guidance.

My goal is to ensure that every individual has access to quality mental health care and to positively impact the lives of those I work with.

Identifying Relationship Challenges and Root Causes

Pre-marital counselling matters deeply because it equips couples with the essential tools and understanding needed to build a healthy, resilient, and lasting marriage. At Zest Counselling, Smrithi Nishanth guides couples through this foundational preparation with focus on several key benefits:

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Creating a Safe and Supportive Space for Dialogue

Smrithi Nishanth creates a neutral, non-judgmental environment at Zest Counselling where clients feel genuinely safe, heard, and supported. By maintaining neutrality, Smrithi helps clients focus fully on their feelings and experiences, making it easier to identify the real issues and work collaboratively toward meaningful solutions. This compassionate atmosphere also reduces defensiveness and resistance, creating a space where healing and growth can truly happen.

  • Encourage honest and open conversations
  • Facilitate respectful listening and expression of feelings
  • Break patterns of blame and defensiveness
  • Ensure both partners feel heard and validated
  • Build emotional safety as the foundation for healing

Improving Communication to Prevent Separation

Effective communication is the cornerstone of a healthy and fulfilling marriage. Pre-marital counselling helps couples develop and refine this crucial skill through various intentional practices and insights. At Zest Counselling, Smrithi Nishanth guides couples to:

  • Teaching active listening and empathy
  • Guiding partners to express needs and concerns constructively
  • Managing conflicts without escalation
  • Repairing breakdowns in dialogue that can lead to distancing
  • Creating tools for ongoing healthy communication beyond therapy sessions

Rebuilding Trust and Emotional Intimacy

Rebuilding trust takes patience, honesty, and mutual effort. Smrithi Nishanth helps couples uncover what led to broken trust, express unmet needs, and rebuild emotional safety. Through empathy, open communication, and forgiveness exercises, partners learn to heal and reconnect. With guidance on setting boundaries, showing accountability, and creating positive shared moments, couples gradually restore trust and strengthen their bond.

  • Acknowledging past hurts and their impact
  • Facilitating transparent and consistent behaviors
  • Encouraging vulnerability and emotional sharing
  • Strengthening the emotional bond through mutual support and appreciation

Managing Conflict with Respect and Understanding

At Zest Counselling, Smrithi Nishanth helps couples strengthen communication through guided exercises that deepen understanding and connection. Partners practice active listening, express emotions with clarity, and learn to use “I” statements to reduce defensiveness. They develop skills in empathy, conflict resolution, and adapting to each other’s communication styles. Through real-life practice and supportive feedback, couples build habits of openness, respect, and emotional validation—creating a more harmonious and resilient relationship.

  • Identify triggers and reaction patterns
  • Use respectful language in disagreements
  • Develop cooperative problem-solving skills
  • De-escalate tensions and avoid destructive arguments

Exploring Individual and Shared Needs

At Zest Counselling, Smrithi Nishanth helps partners build healthier relationships by fostering personal growth and self-awareness. Through counselling, individuals explore their thoughts, behaviors, and emotional patterns to better understand their needs, boundaries, and triggers. They develop tools for emotional regulation, stress management, and effective communication. By balancing personal well-being with shared goals, couples cultivate empathy, compassion, and resilience—creating a relationship where both can thrive.

  • Understand their own emotional and relational needs
  • Recognize and respect their partner’s needs
  • Balance personal autonomy with relationship interdependence
  • Negotiate compromises that satisfy both

Healing from Past Hurts and Forgiveness

The counselling process supports:

  • Addressing resentment, anger, and grief
  • Processing feelings related to betrayal or neglect
  • Working toward forgiveness as a healing tool
  • Releasing negative emotions to move forward constructively

Strategies to Strengthen Commitment and Partnership

Smrithi Nishanth facilitates developing shared goals and mutual understanding between partners. She encourages couples to nurture commitment through daily practices that foster love and respect. Smrithi also supports building accountability, helping partners remain responsible to each other and their relationship. This approach strengthens the foundation for continuous growth and a deeper emotional connection.

  • Shared goals and visions for the future
  • Rituals and practices that nurture connection
  • Accountability for actions and ongoing relationship care
  • Mutual respect and appreciation as daily habits

Planning for a Positive Future Together

Counselling encourages couples to:

  • Build hope and optimism for their relationship
  • Equip themselves with tools to manage future challenges
  • Maintain ongoing dialogue about relationship health
  • Celebrate progress and growth

When Divorce Remains an Option: Navigating the Decision

If reconciliation is not possible, counselling can help couples:

  • Make informed, thoughtful decisions regarding separation
  • Manage emotions and reduce conflict during the process
  • Plan coparenting and future arrangements collaboratively
  • Transition with dignity, respect, and emotional support

My goal is to ensure that every individual has access to quality mental health care and to positively impact the lives of those I work with

~ Smrithi Nishanth

Take the First Step: Contact Smrithi Nishanth for Support

If you and your partner are facing difficulties that threaten your marriage, Smrithi Nishanth at Zest Counselling is here to help. Reach out today to begin a healing journey with professional guidance focused on saving and strengthening your relationship.

Smrithi Nishanth

Founder & Psychologist Zest Counselling

(Msc. Clinical Psychology, Diploma of Counselling [Australia])

Meet Your Psychologist – Smrithi Nishanth

Smrithi Nishanth is a Registered Psychologist in India with over six years of mental health counselling experience in Australia. She completed her Diploma of Counselling in Australia and has worked extensively with individuals facing life transitions, stress, anxiety, and emotional imbalance. Her approach is warm, empathetic, and focused on building practical coping skills that support long-term wellbeing.

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