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Couples Therapy · Mornington Peninsula & Melbourne

Find your way back to each other.

Private, depth-oriented couples therapy for partners who want more than surface repair. We slow down to understand the patterns beneath the conflict — drawing on psychoanalytic depth, attachment science and the Gottman Method — and translate insight into change you can live. In Mornington, across Melbourne, and online.

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03 5939 4984

What to expect

Private and discreet

Private and discreet

A confidential space for couples who value privacy, calm, and thoughtful attention.

Depth without haste

Depth without haste

Work that makes room for what is difficult to name, emotionally layered, or long overdue.

Tailored with precision

Tailored with precision

Each relationship is met with care that is responsive to its history, dynamic, and particular needs.

Change that endures

Change that endures

Not only insight in the room, but meaningful shifts in how you relate, repair, and move forward.

At Therapy Atelier

A more thoughtful way to work with your relationship

Therapy Atelier is a private couples therapy practice on the Mornington Peninsula, working with partners across Melbourne and online. It was created for couples who want more than communication tips or surface-level repair — those seeking real movement in how they relate, respond and rebuild. Whether you are facing recurring conflict, emotional distance, betrayal, cultural strain, a life transition, or the quiet sense that something essential has been lost, the work is shaped around the depth and particularity of your relationship.

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Ways to work together

Not sure where to begin? We can help you identify the most suitable starting point.
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Weekly Couples Therapy

For couples seeking steady, in-depth work through regular sessions.

We begin by clarifying what has become painful, what still feels possible, and where change is most needed. Together, we identify the patterns, pressures, and protective strategies shaping your relationship, and work at a pace that is thoughtful, sustainable, and genuinely useful.

Couples Intensives

For couples seeking focused, substantial progress through one or several extended sessions.

When a relationship feels urgent, stalled, or too layered for standard weekly work, an intensive creates the space to go further. With more time and continuity, important patterns can be seen more clearly, named more honestly, and worked with more effectively.

Retreat Intensives

For couples seeking immersive, high-touch work in a more restorative setting.

Retreat-based work offers a spacious and carefully held environment in which to step back from daily pressures and attend to the relationship with greater depth. This format is especially suited to couples seeking privacy, concentrated reflection, and a more transformative experience of repair.

You may be navigating

  • Recurring conflict
  • Emotional distance
  • Betrayal and repair
  • Intimacy and desire
  • Family or life transitions
  • Resentment and unresolved hurt
  • Communication that no longer reaches
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Depth, precision, and an internationally shaped perspective

Meet Tumee Hugginson

MA in Clinical Psychology · Gottman Couples Therapist · Jungian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist Tumee Hugginson brings an internationally shaped clinical and intellectual background, informed by training and professional experience across the United States, Germany, Ireland, and Japan, as well as an earlier foundation in international and diplomatic settings. She is known for her perceptive, deeply attuned work with couples navigating emotional distance, recurring conflict, betrayal, and more complex forms of relational strain. Her approach integrates depth-oriented and psychoanalytic thinking, attachment-based work, emotionally focused principles, trauma-informed care, and advanced couples therapy training, including the Gottman Method. The result is a way of working that is both discerning and carefully structured, attending not only to what is happening between two people, but also to the deeper emotional patterns, unspoken loyalties, and protective strategies shaping the life of a relationship. She brings a calm, tailored presence to work with discerning individuals and couples navigating cross-cultural dynamics, high-pressure lives, private burdens, and relationships in which much is at stake.

Why couples choose Therapy Atelier

Why couples choose Therapy Atelier

Couples choose Therapy Atelier for work that is thoughtful, deeply attentive, and grounded in clinical depth. The practice is designed to offer a more personal and carefully considered therapeutic experience, with the time, presence, and continuity needed to meet each relationship in its full complexity. It brings together emotional intelligence, psychological depth, and thoughtful structure in a way that allows couples to feel both expertly guided and genuinely understood. The result is a space that feels private, respectful, and capable of supporting meaningful, lasting change.

Begin the work that truly lasts

Some couples arrive in crisis. Others come with the quieter feeling that something essential in the relationship has begun to fade. Both are welcome here.

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