Dr. Pinaud employs communication training and procedures for couples from noted educators including Dr. Harville Hendricks (Getting the Love You Want), Dr. John Gottman (including, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail), and Dr. Marshall Rosenburg (Nonviolent Communications).

Occasionally, individual issues arise within a couple’s counselling that will impede progression. When this happens it may be necessary to break from the couple therapy session to deal on an individual basis with the expectation that the parties will resume their counselling as a couple when underlying issues are resolved.