Maple Tree Counselling, a counselling and therapy practice based in Central, Hong Kong, has announced an expansion of its couples counselling services in response to sustained demand for relationship-focused mental health support in the city. Now entering its fourth year of operation, the practice will open its fourth dedicated therapy room in January 2026 and is adding additional practitioners to its team to support a growing and increasingly diverse client base.
Growth and Service Offerings
Located in the China Building on Queen’s Road Central, Maple Tree Counselling operates three therapy rooms and serves individuals, couples, adolescents, and families from a wide range of cultural and professional backgrounds. The practice attributes its continued growth to its central location, multilingual services, diverse team of practitioners, broad range of therapeutic modalities, and mid-range pricing within Hong Kong’s private therapy market. Couples counselling has emerged as one of the practice’s fastest-growing service areas, with five counsellors dedicated to couples work supporting clients across relationship structures including married couples, newly partnered individuals, non-monogamous relationships, same-sex couples, and cross-cultural partnerships.
Therapeutic Approaches
To strengthen its couples counselling offering, Associate Counsellor Paul Vallis joined the practice in mid-January 2026, focusing on identifying behavioural patterns, building emotional awareness, and helping clients develop new perspectives that support long-term change. Vallis works with partners to improve communication, rebuild trust, manage conflict, address intimacy challenges, navigate differences in values or expectations, and recover from relationship ruptures, including infidelity. His work draws on the Gottman Method, an evidence-based approach widely used in couples therapy.
The Gottman Method is also used by Julia Laubscher, a couples specialist counsellor at Maple Tree Counselling, offering couples a structured way to understand and strengthen their relationship through the “Sound Relationship House” framework. This model focuses on building emotional safety, trust, and connection while providing practical tools for communication and conflict management. Couples sessions are 80 minutes in duration and are priced between HK$2,400 and HK$3,000, depending on the therapist. Founded in 2021, Maple Tree Counselling also operates practices in Central Victoria and Melbourne, Australia.
This article is an AI-assisted summary. All facts and figures are drawn from the original report: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/12/23/3210039/0/en/Couples-Therapy-and-Marriage-Counselling-Services-Hong-Kong-Expansion-Announced-Maple-Tree-s-Therapists-Offer-Gottman-Method.html