Great Couples Counseling in Idaho Springs, CO. Therapy to heal relationships.

Being a couple is not easy. It requires constant attention to keep a relationship together. I will help you develop the skills to strengthen your relationship using such tools as reflective listening, expressing appreciation and looking honestly at the issues causing trouble in your relationship. I will not chose sides, but will expect that both you and your partner look honestly and openly at your behavior, accept your share of the responsibility and commit to change so the relationship with be strong and enduring.

Are you feeling fed up with your relationship? Are you and your partner growing apart? Do you find that fighting and arguing happen more often than laughing and snuggling? Being in an unhappy romantic relationship affects your emotional and physical health and tears your family apart. But things CAN get better. You can learn skills and strategies to forgive and work together, even when things seem hopeless. Couples counseling brings you closer and makes your relationship stronger. We understand that marriage requires a lot of work, but you can have the relationship you've always wanted. Call today to schedule your free consultation. (970) 227-2770

Are you feeling lonely in your own marriage? Disrespected? Misunderstood? It doesn’t have to stay this way. Far too often, high-achieving men feel disrespected and lonely within their own marriages. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I help men and their wives to rediscover the incredible value they bring to the marriage, and help them negotiate a hopeful path forward. I will help you identify destructive patterns in your marriage and provide healthier alternatives. I’ll help you improve communication, learn to fight fair, and increase understanding and connection. While it’s not easy work, there is hope. If given the chance, I would be honored to help you fight for your marriage.

I teach couples "Full Respect Living." This is Terry Real's term for mastering the skills of relational living. Some of the skills I will teach you are: 1) sustaining healthy self-esteem, 2) maintaining healthy boundaries, 3) living in moderation, 4) acting on behalf of the relationship, and 5) negotiating wisely. It is often the case that practicing these skills can help you turn around a deteriorating couple relationship very quickly. However, when repetitive harmful patterns are operating in the relationship, we will need to look more deeply. I will help you to understand and change the self-defeating patterns that you have brought from your childhood into the current situation

Did you know that people are unhappiest when they are fighting with their significant other? Over time, this can negatively affect every aspect of your life, including your ability to find joy, achieve success in your work, and raise your children. You owe it to yourself and your loved one to seek out help. There are proven techniques that you can learn in counseling to restore love, communication and intimacy to your relationship. Call today to find out how couples counseling can help you.

Many couples approach therapy as a resource for renewing their emotional connection or to deepen intimacy in their relationship. I work with all types of couples on a variety of intimacy & communication struggles. My approach is direct, empathic and supportive. My goal is to facilitate change in a safe and trusting environment. I believe that collaborative work with my clients facilitates a strong therapeutic relationship which offers positive results.

Almost every couple can benefit from some help at times with their relationship. Sometimes these troubles reach the point that partners become disappointed and upset about their relationship and may even come to question whether they want to continue to remain a couple. Marriages in distress are very unsettling and the ways relational problems often progress make it easy for things to go from bad to worse. However, in most situations, this flow in a negative direction can be altered. In my practice I use a combination skill building in communication, negotiating, and problem solving, and teach how to fight well by avoiding the pitfalls that will escalate disagreements into catastrophes.

It's natural for conflict and other issues to arise in a couple since you're two separate people with your own histories and upbringings coming together in relationship. The key is being able to self-regulate through difficult emotions, and communicate about what's happening effectively with your partner. When you can both stay calm, you'll be able to find new solutions to the issues that have come up in your relationship. I'm here to support you in identifying the issues causing conflict in your relationship, getting to the root of them, communicating effectively about them, and coming up with solutions that work.

I have been in good relationships (I am currently happily married) and bad relationships, as we all have. I believe my personal experience with relationships, my schooling and training allows me to be a objective and compassionate partner in working with couples. Relationships are hard, no doubt about it, but by working through the issues they can improve.

In couples therapy, I collaborate with you to explore the stories shaping your relationship and examine how certain narratives may be influencing patterns between you and your partner. Rather than assigning blame, we work together to see the relationship’s challenges as external influences, making room for understanding and empathy. By identifying shared values and preferred ways of relating, we co-create new narratives that support deeper connection, trust, and intimacy. This process helps both partners reconnect with each other in ways that honor each person's voice and foster a stronger, more resilient partnership.