At Heart of the Matter Therapy, we specialize in couples therapy for partners who want to reconnect, communicate more effectively, and resolve painful relationship patterns. Our therapists serve clients in Fort Collins and across Colorado via secure online therapy. Disconnection and negative cycles in relationships keep partners unseen, frustrated, exhausted, and alone. We work with couples with presentations from premarital checkups to affairs and other serious injuries to the relationship. We are especially experienced in working with couples to:
- Build trust and heal from violations of trust
- De-escalate destructive patterns of conflict
- Develop greater intimacy and closeness
- Foster acceptance of one another’s differences and appreciation for each other
- Work through the effects of stressors on the relationship (e.g., life transitions, work or family stress)
- Grow sexual intimacy and satisfaction
In couples therapy and marriage counseling, we practice Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and we are the founder and core members of the Fort Collins EFT Community. With hundreds of cumulative hours of advanced training and mentorship in EFT, we deeply believe in this method. EFT is the most evidence-based couples therapy method, with 90% of couples improving their relationship with this method and 75% no longer meeting the criteria for relationship distress after treatment (learn more about EFT by viewing Tasha’s Psychology Today article about EFT).
Many of our therapists are also trained in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, which is based on 50 years of rigorous research on the communication techniques that are associated with happy, lasting marriages. They can teach you the communication skills known to be associated with happier relationships as a supplement to our deeper work with EFT. Using the most effective methods, we will develop an understanding of the pattern in which you’re caught, learn how to relate in a way that will deepen your understanding of one another, and restructure your interaction with each other for true connection.
You can gain clarity, break free from negative cycles, and move toward a relationship built on openness and security. In nourishing a relationship, we build a “safe haven” that can bring comfort and joy into your life and provide the strength to face life challenges. This powerful force, called love, is the most important thing in this life. Couples therapy and marriage counseling can guide you in having transformative conversations and making concrete changes that will move you toward a more secure and satisfying bond.
Reach Out to Schedule a Free Consultation or Marriage Counseling or Couples Therapy Session (Online or in Fort Collins, CO)!
- heartofthematter@marriagecounselingfortcollins.com
- (970)335-9190
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Check out this video to learn more about EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), a method of therapy that all of our therapists specialize in: