Marriage counselling involves both partners and helps to recognize any underlying conflicts to improve the relationship. This allows married couples to make thoughtful decisions and overcome differences through enhanced communication between partners.

Marriage counselling is not only for those partners who are about to divorce, but all marriages also have their struggles, and most couples can benefit from counselling. Marriage counselling encourages both partners to focus on self-improvement and self-awareness. Through the help of a counsellor, marriage counselling allows partners to:

1. Explore each other’s hopes, expectations, and relationship concerns. This helps in understanding each other better and allows for an effective communication system to be learnt.
2. Explain why each partner has a difference in opinion and what to do about their opinion.
3. Learn problem-solving techniques and how to move on from any marital disappointments and anger.
4. Understand what the possible implications of separation or divorce are.

Marriage counsellors encourage both partners to be present during sessions as this is the most effective way for counsellors to see how each partner communicates and therefore can offer tools for their improved communication. However, if a partner feels reluctant to attend, there are still benefits from one partner attending as they are able to learn about themselves and how they may feel about their relationship.

Online counselling allows couples to connect with counsellors in a safe, convenient, and effective manner. This helps to resolve any issues to better the marriage and assists in getting each person to see the other's perspective. Marriage counselling can be beneficial for any couple whether they are pre-marital, newlyweds, new parents or have been married for a long time. As communication is key when solving marriage problems, marriage counselling allows each partner to therefore improve their communications skills, come to mutual understandings or find ways to move forward either as a couple or as individuals.

Couples who are considering a separation or divorce should strongly consider online couples counselling before they go through with it, or, if they have already done so, should do it in order to adjust to and cope with the new demands placed on their lives, especially if there are children involved. If the relationship simply seems stale, or boring, or if arguments escalate to screaming fights, or even in the case of infidelity, couples counselling can help. Issues like sex, alcoholism, money, in-laws or children, on which each party has differing views, can also be addressed in couples counselling.

Grief Counselling is helpful to process the loss of the the past in many cases.

Couples who are about to get married can also benefit from premarital counselling, to iron out those niggly issues before they become full-blown problems.

Online Couple counselling involves specifically dealing with issues that arise in the course of a romantic relationship between two individuals. This type of virtual counselling is aimed at improving communication between both parties, re-establishing emotional connections, and renegotiating commitment, where necessary.

Marriage counselling looks at present-day events as opposed to the past. It deals largely with the 'here and now' and the immediate challenges of married life with the view to getting the relationship back on track. Couples counselling however may deal with the 'here and now' but it may also revisit the history that may have caused unhealthy patterns of relating or coping within the relationship.

The main issues that arise in a relationship have to do with stress which can be caused by many different issues, such as financial difficulty, lack of intimacy, family, mental or physical illness. This can all lead to stress for the whole family and children.  Online Counselling can assist in all cases: family, individual counselling, intimacy support, adolescent counselling or even parent guidance can help.