Meet Mara: Couples Therapist in Ontario Supporting Relationships, Life Transitions & Women’s Mental Health
Meet Mara Behan, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) at Lovebird Couples Therapy Ontario. Mara supports couples and individuals with relationships, anxiety, parenting, pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, menopause and life transitions.
What Does Taking a Break From a Relationship Look Like? How to Make a Relationship Break Productive
Wondering what taking a break from a relationship looks like? Learn how to set boundaries, use time apart productively, and reconnect with greater clarity.
Should We Break Up or Go to Couples Therapy? How to Know If Your Relationship Can Be Repaired
Wondering whether to break up or try couples therapy? Explore 7 questions to help you decide if your relationship can be repaired, including signs therapy may help.
OCD-Informed Couples Therapy: How Working with an OCD-Informed Couples Therapist Can Strengthen Your Relationship
Work with an OCD-informed couples therapist. Virtual couples therapy for OCD and Relationship OCD (ROCD) across Ontario and Canada. Free consultation available.
Is Watching Porn Cheating? A Couples Therapist's Perspective
Is watching porn cheating? Learn how pornography impacts trust, intimacy, and relationships, plus when couples therapy can help. Virtual therapy across Ontario & Canada.
Am I Too Needy in My Relationship? Understanding Emotional Needs Without Shame
Wondering if you're too needy in your relationship? Learn the difference between healthy emotional needs, anxious attachment, and relationship patterns. Virtual couples and individual therapy across Ontario.
Guilt About Limerence While in a Relationship: Why It Happens and How to Move Forward Without Shame
Feeling guilty about limerence while in a committed relationship? Learn why limerence happens, how to cope without shame, and when therapy can help. Virtual therapy across Ontario.
The Pursuer–Withdrawer Cycle: How to Break the Anxious–Avoidant Relationship Pattern
Learn why the pursuer–withdrawer cycle happens, how anxious and avoidant attachment fuels conflict, and how couples therapy can help you reconnect.
Healing From Being the Burnt-Out Pursuer in Relationships: How to Stop Carrying the Relationship Alone
Feeling like you're the only one fighting for your relationship? Learn how to heal from being the burnt-out pursuer with EFT. Virtual couples therapy across Ontario.
Should We Go to Couples Therapy or End the Relationship? How to Know When a Relationship Can Be Repaired
Wondering whether you should attend couples therapy or end your relationship? Learn the signs a relationship can be repaired, when separation may need to be considered, and how couples therapy can help you gain clarity.
The Anxious-Avoidant Cycle: Why You Keep Having the Same Fight (and How to Break Free)
Learn why anxious and avoidant attachment styles create a painful relationship cycle and how Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) can help couples across Ontario reconnect.
Discernment Counselling in Ontario: How to Decide Whether to Repair Your Relationship or Separate
Considering separation or divorce? Learn how discernment counselling helps couples in Ontario decide whether to repair their relationship or separate with clarity.
How to Identify and Start Healing Your Anxious Attachment Style
Learn how to identify anxious attachment style, understand its causes, and start healing relationship anxiety, fear of abandonment, and insecurity with practical, therapist-backed strategies.
Inclusive Couples Therapy in Ontario: Creating a Space Where Every Relationship Can Feel Seen, Supported, and Understood
Discover how Lovebird Couples Therapy Ontario provides inclusive, affirming couples therapy for LGBTQ+ individuals, interracial couples, neurodivergent families, Jewish communities, disabled individuals, blended families, and more.
Retroactive Jealousy in Relationships: Why Your Partner's Past Feels So Threatening
Struggling with retroactive jealousy? Learn the signs, causes, and treatment options for retroactive jealousy, relationship anxiety, and ROCD. Discover how therapy can help you stop obsessing over your partner's past and build a healthier, more secure relationship.
Experiencing Limerence for Someone Else While in a Healthy Relationship? Here's What It Might Mean
Can you experience limerence while in a happy relationship? Learn why intense attraction to someone else happens, what it means, and how to navigate it without panic.
Navigating Relationships in a Blended Family: A Couples Therapist’s Guide for Parents in Ontario
Learn how to strengthen your relationship while navigating blended family challenges, co-parenting stress, step-parent roles, and communication difficulties with expert couples therapy support in Ontario.
How to Take Care of Your Relationship While Parenting: A Couples Therapist’s Guide for Parents in Ontario
Struggling to stay connected while parenting? Learn how to maintain emotional intimacy, reduce resentment, and strengthen your relationship during parenthood with expert couples therapy insights in Ontario.
As a Couples Therapist, I’d Never Ignore These Relationship Red Flags
Discover 6 important relationship lessons from a couples therapist, including communication, emotional connection, attachment styles, conflict, and dating for compatibility. Learn how healthier relationships are built with support from Lovebird Couples Therapy Ontario
Feeling Emotionally Disconnected in Your Relationship? What to Do Before Assuming the Relationship Is Over
Feeling emotionally disconnected from your partner? Learn common causes of emotional distance in relationships and how couples therapy in Ontario can help rebuild communication, intimacy, and emotional connection with support from Lovebird Couples Therapy Ontario.