Meet Jane and Sheila, your Retreat facilitators
Two warm, experienced women who have helped hundreds of couples reconnect, and who continue work on their own relationships every day.
Book a RetreatYou are in experienced, caring hands
Focus on Relationships is led by Jane Lewis, who combines her psychology training with her work as an Integrative Relationship Practitioner, and Sheila Eime, a couples counsellor with more than forty years of experience
Warm, practical and never judgmental, they create a safe space where both of you can speak openly, feel truly heard, and find your way back to each other.
A warmer way to work on your relationship
Couples often tell us we do things very differently, and they feel at ease quickly. Traditional couples counselling is often based on a method that can feel like the counsellor is taking sides and deciding who is right.
Our work is built on positive psychology instead. In a safe, creative and welcoming space, we gently remove the obstacles that block communication, so you can reach the love that sits within every disagreement.
Sheila brings the rarest skill of all, deep listening, and when people feel genuinely heard, they naturally open up.
Integrative Relationship Practitioner
Jane Lewis
Jane began her career as a lawyer at a large Adelaide firm, but she was always fascinated by love and relationships. After her third child was born, she started exploring personal development.
Her own marriage, though full of love, had begun to feel routine, and the early excitement had faded. She read every self-help book she could find, and when her husband agreed to join her at a relationship workshop in Bali with Diane and Robert Matthews, everything changed.
They came home working on their relationship as equals, and rediscovered how fascinated they still were with each other. Inspired, Jane stepped back from law and trained deeply in the field, in Transcendental Meditation, Transactional Analysis and Re-evaluation Counselling, then as a Reiki Master and a certified Tantric Sex Instructor, before earning her post-graduate qualifications in psychology at Adelaide University.
Her passion is love, connection and the art of keeping romance alive.
“I know from experience and training that the fading of romance is not an inevitable stage of a relationship. Every couple has the potential to improve their life together. There are countless relationship skills we are simply never taught at school or at home. In learning them for myself, I have developed hundreds of exercises and rituals of connection that still deepen my own relationship with my partner of forty-one years. They say you teach best what you most need to learn, and I am still learning.”
Couples counsellor and facilitator
Sheila Eime
Sheila left her beloved Scotland at the age of fourteen, bound for Australia, and Adelaide has been home ever since. A natural observer of people, she found raising four children a wonderful education in human nature.
When her youngest started school, she trained as a teacher and then as a lecturer at COPE, now known as Relationships Australia, becoming a group educator in 1990. For more than forty years she has worked as a counsellor, specialising in couples reconciliation, non-violent communication and mediation.
Her gift is deep listening. When people feel truly heard, they soften, and the love beneath the disagreement comes through. She works with Re-evaluation theory, in the belief that every person is born loving, capable and full of life, and that with the right support, old hurts can be gently released.
Couples on our retreats are fortunate to have her alongside them.
“Albert Einstein said that no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. I will help move your perspective to a higher, more loving and connected place, where old and ingrained difficulties release with relative ease.”
We practise what we teach
Everything we share with couples, we live ourselves. The exercises, the rituals of connection and the way of communicating are part of our own relationships, not just our work. That is why couples trust us, and why so many come back.
We would love to welcome you to a weekend in Port Willunga and share it with you.
Come and meet us
The best way to get to know Jane and Sheila is to spend a weekend with them. Book your Retreat, or send us a question first. We would love to hear from you.
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