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A Path Back to Each Other
Couples therapy at Higher Ground helps partners move beyond surface-level communication fixes and into the deeper emotional patterns that shape connection. Whether you’re navigating conflict, distance, loneliness, or trust ruptures, our work centers on rebuilding emotional safety so you can meet each other with honesty, vulnerability, and steadiness again.
Rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment science, we help couples understand the cycle they’re caught in. Beneath every argument, shutdown, or spiral is a nervous system trying to protect itself. We slow things down, explore what’s underneath, and create space for new ways of reaching for one another.
Therapy becomes a structured, intimate process of recognizing patterns, repairing ruptures, and restoring trust. Sessions are designed to hold both partners with clarity and compassion, whether you’re seeking repair after crisis or wanting to deepen an already strong foundation. This is relational work that brings you back to yourselves—and to each other.
Let’s rebuild something solid– together.
Who Couples Therapy Is For
Couples therapy is for partners who want to understand each other more clearly, interrupt painful cycles, and build connection that feels secure, responsive, and durable. We work with couples who are in crisis, navigating transitions, or who feel distanced and want to find their way back.
Partners stuck in recurring conflict or communication breakdowns
Couples navigating infidelity, betrayal, or trust ruptures
Relationships affected by withdrawal, shutdown, or loneliness
Individuals with attachment trauma impacting partnership
Parents overwhelmed by stress, transition, or identity shifts
Couples seeking deeper intimacy, attunement, and emotional presence
Partners using work, busyness, or constant distraction to avoid closeness or conflict
Couples struggling with sexual connection, desire, or embodied intimacy
Key Benefits
Restore Emotional Safety
We help you move from rupture into responsiveness, where each partner feels understood, comforted, and safe enough to come closer again. This is reconnection that holds, not performance or avoidance.
Deepen Your Connection
As defenses soften and attunement returns, the relationship becomes a place where both partners can be real without bracing for impact. Begin building the secure, co-regulated partnership you’ve always wanted to feel.
Clarity In What's Keeping You Stuck
Every couple has a pattern: the reactivity, withdrawal, anger, or silence that takes over when you’re hurting. We help you see that cycle clearly: what triggers it, what each of you is trying to protect, and what you’re really reaching for underneath.
The Couples Therapy Experience
A Safe Place to Slow the Patterns
Sessions are intentionally paced to help each partner step out of reactivity and into clarity. We map the cycles of what triggers you, where you get lost, and what you’re each longing for beneath the defenses. This creates the groundwork for change that actually lasts.
Emotionally Focused, Attachment-Based Work
Our approach helps you access the emotions that live beneath conflict: fear, shame, hurt, longing, and the desire to matter to one another. As defenses soften and understanding grows, couples begin to respond—not react—with steadiness, empathy, and truth.
Repair, Reconnection & Rebuilding Trust
When trust has been ruptured through betrayal, disconnection, or accumulated resentment, we guide you through a structured and compassionate repair process. This is not forced forgiveness or premature optimism. It is slow, real rebuilding grounded in safety and accountability.
Formats That Support Real Change
Couples can work in weekly sessions, 90-minute deep work sessions, or private therapeutic intensives for accelerated growth. Concierge and on-site formats are available for high-stakes situations, travel needs, or families requiring more coordinated support between meetings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is couples therapy only for couples in crisis?
Not at all. Many couples come in because they feel disconnected, want deeper intimacy, or need support navigating transitions. Crisis work is only one part of what we do.
What if my partner doesn’t want to come?
That’s common. We can start with one partner to understand the cycle and clarify what’s happening. Many hesitant partners join once the process feels less threatening and more supportive.
How long does couples therapy take?
Every couple is different. Some see meaningful shifts within 8–12 sessions; others need longer work—especially when dealing with betrayal, trauma, or long-standing patterns. We set a realistic plan based on your needs.
Do you see couples virtually?
Yes. We offer remote sessions for couples in Connecticut, Colorado, and Massachusetts. Many couples experience strong results virtually because of the focused, intentional format.
What if we argue during sessions?
Arguments may arise during sessions, but it is a safe space for expression. Conflict reveals the cycle you’re stuck in. Our role is to slow things down, translate what’s happening beneath the reactivity, and help you find each other again.
Do you work with non-traditional relationships?
Yes. We work with all relationship structures—married, unmarried, dating, LGBTQIA+, or non-traditional configurations. What matters most is emotional safety and connection.