Couples & Relationship Counselling in English

A space to tend what is happening between you

Relationships are living systems. They carry histories, hopes, habits, tenderness, protective patterns, cultural stories, different ways of giving and receiving care, and all the ordinary pressures of being human together.

Sometimes a relationship reaches a place that asks for more attention. You may be finding yourselves caught in familiar conversations, feeling farther apart than you want to be, moving through a major change, or simply sensing that something important between you wants to be understood more deeply.

I offer couples and relationship counselling in English, online throughout Norway and in person in Oslo, for people who want a thoughtful, collaborative space to understand what is happening between them and explore what might help the relationship grow.

Sessions in English · Online throughout Norway and internationally · In person in Oslo

75-minute sessions · 1 800 NOK ( or €165 )· Sessions in English

A space to explore what you are creating together…

Relationship counselling can be a place to become curious about the relationship itself.

We might begin with questions like:

What matters most to each of you?

What are you trying to create together?

Where does connection come easily?

Where do you lose sight of one another?

What helps each person feel cared for, free, understood, and able to belong?

What is asking for your attention now?

People seek couples counselling for many different reasons. Sometimes there is something painful that has been asking for attention or life has changed and the relationship is changing with it. Sometimes there is a wish to understand one another more fully and tend the relationship with greater care.

Living outside Norway? Online sessions are available internationally.
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You might be experiencing...

  • recurring conflict or finding yourselves in the same conversations again and again

  • communication that becomes tangled, tense, or difficult to repair

  • feeling distant, lonely, or less connected than you once did

  • differences in how each of you approaches closeness, independence, or time together

  • one person reaching for more connection while the other needs more space

  • differences in sex, intimacy, affection, or desire

  • burnout, stress, illness, or caregiving affecting the relationship

  • changes in work, family life, parenting, or other responsibilities

  • rebuilding trust after hurt, rupture, secrecy, or betrayal

  • jealousy, insecurity, or fear of losing one another

  • different approaches to money, household responsibilities, or decision-making

  • cultural differences, family expectations, or different ideas about partnership

  • migration, relocation, or building a shared life somewhere new

  • neurodivergence or differences in communication, processing, sensory needs, or emotional expression

  • changes in gender, sexuality, identity, or how one of you understands yourselves

  • opening, closing, or changing the structure of a relationship

  • questions around polyamory, consensual non-monogamy, or kink

  • a major transition that is asking the relationship to grow in a new direction

  • wanting to deepen an already loving relationship and understand one another more fully

Every relationship has seasons when something asks for more care. Couples counselling can offer a place to slow down, listen more closely to what is happening, and explore together what the relationship may be asking for now.

Understanding the pattern between you

Many relationship struggles carry more than one layer.

A conversation about chores may also carry questions about care, fairness, recognition, or whether someone feels alone.

A need for space may be connected to overwhelm, autonomy, or the wish to return to connection with more capacity.

A longing for closeness may carry tenderness, fear, desire, or a wish to feel chosen.

Over time, each person’s way of protecting themselves or the relationship can begin interacting with the other person’s protections, creating a pattern that takes on a life of its own.

In our work together, we can slow that pattern down.

We can become curious about what each person is reaching for, what becomes tender, what happens in the body, and what possibilities begin to appear when there is more room to hear one another.

Making room for different experiences

Relationships hold a great deal at once: love, frustration, tenderness, grief, anger, fear, longing, uncertainty, joy, and all the complexity that comes with two whole people trying to build a life together.

Two people can move through the same moment and carry away very different experiences of what happened. Our histories, cultures, bodies, stories, identities, attachment experiences, and ways of making meaning all shape what we notice, what matters to us, and how something lands.

In our work together, there is room for all of those experiences and emotions to be present.

Conflict can offer important information. It can show us where something matters deeply, where a need is asking to be understood, where an old protection has been activated, or where the relationship may need different conditions in order to support both people more fully.

We can become curious together about what is happening underneath the conflict: What is each person reaching for? What support is needed here? What conditions might make it easier for both people to feel heard, cared for, and able to stay connected?

As each person’s experience becomes more visible, the focus can shift toward understanding the larger pattern and discovering what might help the relationship hold both people with greater care.

When conflict is tended with curiosity and enough space, it can become a pathway toward deeper shared understanding, greater intimacy, and new ways of meeting one another.

Exploring relationships as ecosystems

Every relationship grows within a particular landscape. Each person brings histories, cultures, identities, experiences of care and belonging, values, desires, hopes, and relationship maps gathered across a lifetime.

Around the relationship are families, friendships, communities, work, money, health, caregiving, culture, place, migration, social expectations, and the larger conditions of everyday life. All of these become part of the ecosystem the relationship is growing within. In our work, we may become curious about questions such as:

  • What helps connection flow between you?

  • Where do you become tangled?

  • How does each person recognize, offer, and receive care?

  • What happens when your different experiences of the same moment meet?

  • Where does each of you feel most at home in the relationship?

  • What helps you feel free enough to be fully yourselves while remaining connected?

  • Where is the relationship well supported by the world around it?

  • Where are the two of you carrying more than feels sustainable?

  • What helps you find one another again after something becomes difficult?

  • What values are you trying to live together?

  • What kind of relationship are you hoping to keep creating?

Relationship counselling can make room for the whole landscape, including what happens between you and the wider world your relationship belongs to.

What our work might look like

My approach is relational, collaborative, and somatically informed.

Together, we may explore communication, boundaries, agreements, repair, intimacy, trust, recurring conflict, and the rhythms of closeness and independence within the relationship.

We may slow particular moments down and notice what happens as tension arises: what changes in the body, what emotions appear, what story becomes louder, what someone reaches toward, and where someone begins to pull away.

Sometimes our conversations move into deeper territory around attachment, grief, shame, belonging, identity, sexuality, desire, autonomy, culture, or the relational maps each person has carried into the relationship.

Practical changes and deeper understanding can grow alongside one another.

For people seeking online couples counselling in Norway, this work can happen from wherever you are. I also offer in-person couples counselling in Oslo.

Finding your own way forward

Relationship counselling can offer room to listen more closely to what each person wants, needs, values, and hopes for, while also paying attention to what the relationship itself seems to need at this point in its life.

My approach is adaptive and collaborative. I want to get to know each of you as individuals, including the ways you experience connection, conflict, closeness, space, care, communication, and change. I also want to understand the particular relationship you have created together: its rhythms, strengths, sensitivities, histories, and the conditions that help it feel more supported.

The work can then be shaped around what is most useful for you. Sometimes that may mean slowing down a recurring pattern. Sometimes it may mean building new ways of communicating, making more room for emotion, tending trust, exploring intimacy, renegotiating expectations, or finding practical ways to support one another differently.

You remain the people who know your relationship from the inside. My role is to help create enough space, curiosity, and structure for each person’s experience to become clearer, and for the relationship to show us what may be asking for attention.

Together, we can explore what you want to nurture, what support may be needed, what conditions might help each of you flourish, and what kind of relationship you want to keep creating.

Relationships come in many forms

I welcome people across a wide range of identities, cultures, relationship structures, and life experiences.

My work includes heterosexual couples, LGBTQIA+, queer, trans, and gender-diverse partners, intercultural and interracial relationships, international couples, neurodivergent relationships, monogamous relationships, polyamorous and non-monogamous relationships, kink/BDSM relationships, and relationships navigating illness, disability, caregiving, migration, or major transitions.

I work with many international and intercultural couples building lives together in Norway. Intercultural couples counselling may include exploring different cultural backgrounds, family expectations, languages, migration experiences, ideas about partnership, or different senses of home and belonging.

I also offer LGBTQ+ relationship counselling with space for sexuality, gender, community, identity, and relationship structure to be part of the wider landscape of the work.

You can come with one partner, multiple partners, or on your own to explore relationship questions.

Your relationship can arrive with all of its complexity.

About me

I’m Soren Stone, a US-trained counsellor with more than ten years of professional experience working with individuals, couples, and relationships.

My background includes extensive work with LGBTQIA+ communities, polyamory and consensual non-monogamy, intercultural relationships, neurodivergence, trauma, attachment, burnout, migration, and major life transitions.

My approach has been shaped by training in somatic, mindfulness-based, attachment-informed, and experiential approaches, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), and relational work.

I bring those frameworks lightly, alongside a deep respect for the wisdom people already carry about their own lives and relationships.

As an English-speaking counsellor in Norway, I work with people locally in Oslo and online throughout the country and internationally.

A note about counselling in Norway

I am a US-trained counsellor with more than ten years of professional experience. I hold a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and am a licensed mental health counsellor in Washington State.

In Norway, and internationally outside the US, I offer my work as non-clinical counselling and coaching. Sessions are designed for people seeking reflective, relational, and practical support and take place outside the Norwegian authorised healthcare system. I do not provide crisis, emergency, or diagnostic services.

FAQ

Ready to explore what is happening between you?

You can begin with a conversation.

Free 30-minute consultation

The consultation is a no-obligation space for us to meet and get a sense of one another. You can share a little about what is bringing you to seek support at this point in your relationship, hear about how I work, and ask any questions that would help you decide whether this feels like a good fit.

If you are looking for couples counselling in Oslo or online relationship counselling anywhere in Norway, you are welcome to begin here.

75-minute sessions · 1 800 NOK ( or €165 )
Sessions in English
Online throughout Norway and internationally + in person in Oslo