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A licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience in the field. I earned my B.S. in Psychology and Master’s in Counseling from Colorado State University and am the proud owner of Path to Growth Therapy and Trabelsi Coaching & Consulting.

I provide therapy for individuals and couples across Colorado and Washington, and mindset coaching and consulting services to clients worldwide. My specialties include grief, trauma, anxiety, life transitions, and relationship challenges. With a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and action-oriented approach, I help clients move beyond challenges and step into lasting healing and growth.

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Many high achievers struggle with burnout, perfectionism, and anxiety despite outward success. Learn how EMDR therapy helps process the deeper emotional patterns driving chronic stress, fear of failure, and emotional exhaustion, helping professionals find lasting balance.

EMDR for High Achievers: Breaking Free From Perfectionism and Burnout

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Discernment Counseling helps mixed-agenda couples gain clarity when one partner is unsure about staying and the other wants to repair the relationship. Learn how this short-term process supports thoughtful decisions about separation, reconciliation, or couples therapy.

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What If Couples Therapy Isn’t Working? Discernment Counseling Can Help

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Considering divorce but unsure what comes next? Discernment Counseling helps couples in Colorado and Washington explore relationship uncertainty, gain clarity, and make confident decisions about reconciliation, separation, or couples therapy.

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Discernment Counseling: How to Know Whether to Stay, Separate, or Rebuild Your Relationship

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Looking for EMDR or ART therapy in Denver? Learn how these trauma-focused therapies help process PTSD, anxiety, grief, and unresolved trauma, and discover which approach may be the best fit for your healing goals.

Virtual EMDR trauma therapy session with Denver therapist Sheila Trabelsi

What is EMDR and what is Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)?

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Looking for EMDR or ART therapy in Seattle? Learn how these trauma-focused therapies help process PTSD, anxiety, grief, and unresolved trauma, and find the right approach for lasting emotional healing and recovery.

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EMDR vs ART: How These Powerful Trauma Therapies Help You Heal Faster in Seattle

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Struggling with emotional reactions in your relationship? Discover practical emotional regulation strategies, common relationship triggers, and ways couples can improve communication, resolve conflict, and strengthen emotional connection.

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Emotional Regulation for Relationships

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Discover how grief extends beyond death, especially in betrayal, divorce, addiction, and family estrangement. Denver-based therapy services at Path to Growth help you process invisible losses and find healing.

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Grieving the Loss of a Relationship: Healing Betrayal, Divorce, and Estrangement

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Table of Contents Healing Through Grief and Loss Series Grief, in general, doesn’t follow a calendar so why would complicated grief? And yet, many people struggling with complicated grief find themselves haunted by a question they may not dare to ask aloud:“Why am I still not over it?” Maybe it’s been months or even years […]

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What is Complicated Grief?

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Table of Contents Part of the Healing Through Grief & Loss Blog Series Some grief come with casseroles, memorial services, and long embraces.Others… come with silence, shame, and questions you don’t dare ask out loud. Maybe the person you lost did something terrible, abused others, committed a violent crime, or caused real harm to people […]

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Grief Unspoken: When Loss Isn’t Validated by Society

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Grieving someone who hurt you is complex. Explore how EMDR, IFS, and intensives help process mixed emotions and create space for healing.

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Grief: Grieving Someone Who Hurt You

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