DENVER & All of COLORADO
Couples Therapy & Discernment Counseling in Denver, Colorado
Relationship support for couples who feel stuck in in their communication patterns, disconnected, struggling with the conequences of betrayal, or unsure how to move forward together.
The Methods
Powerful Approaches,
One Tailored Path
Does This Sound Like You?
This Work Is For You If...
You're stuck in a cycle that leaves you both more disconnected every time.
"We keep having the same fight — and nothing ever changes."
You've hit a crossroads and need clarity before committing to a path forward.
"I don't know if we should keep trying or let go."
You want communication skills that lead to understanding, not defensiveness or disconnection.
"We need to talk about hard things — without it turning into a shutdown."
You don't feel heard and you're exhausted from trying.
"We love each other, but something important keeps getting lost."
Infidelity Repair Specialist
When Trust
Has Been Broken
Infidelity is one of the most painful things a relationship can go through. The betrayal, the questions, the grief — it affects both partners in completely different ways, and it rarely resolves on its own.
For Denver Couples Who Need to Move Faster
Extended Sessions &
Couples Intensives
Standard 50-minute sessions are often not enough for the complexity of what couples are dealing with. The intensive format is especially suited for Denver couples who are at a decision point, working through infidelity, or simply ready to stop deferring the real conversation and commit to making change now.
Extended Session
75 min — 2.5 hours
Extended formats that give us the time and space to go beyond surface-level conversations and into deeper, more meaningful work.
Couples Intensive
2–3 Day Dedicated Block
Especially effective for infidelity and betrayal recovery, discernment counseling, and building communication and conflict resolution skills.
In-Person & Online
Denver & All of Colorado
In-person intensive options available in Colorado. Online sessions serve Denver and the broader Colorado area. Inquire at your consult.
Your Therapist
Hi, I'm Sheila
Sheila Trabelsi is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado with over a decade of experience working with individuals and couples. She specializes in trauma, relationship dynamics, and the complex relational challenges that often bring couples into therapy — communication breakdowns, emotional disconnection, and the impact of betrayal or infidelity.
Her couples work includes betrayal and infidelity repair, discernment counseling, and skills-based relationship therapy grounded in attachment theory, the Gottman Method, and Imago-informed approaches. She is a certified sex therapy informed professional and a couples infidelity repair specialist, bringing additional depth to work around intimacy, desire, sexuality, and relational repair — while honoring relationship diversity including LGBTQIA+, open, and polyamorous relationships.
Licensed Professional Counselor #11614 · Licensed Addictions Counselor #1162
LAC
ART Trained
EMDR Trained
LPC
Take the First Step
Ready to Stop
Going in Circles?
Both partners are held with honesty and without judgment — whether you're committed to rebuilding, still deciding, or somewhere in between. The conversation is real. And the work is too.
03
Move Forward With Clarity
Decide what repair, reconnection, or next steps should look like for your relationship.
02
Build Communication & Repair
Learn practical tools from attachment-informed, Gottman-informed, and Imago-informed relationship work.
01
Understand the Pattern
Identify the cycle underneath repeated arguments, shutdowns, resentment, or emotional distance.
For High-Achievers
You're Good at Keeping
It Together. Until You're Not.
Denver couples often look steady on the outside while privately dealing with relationship struggles that look like emotional distance, repeated arguments that never seem to resolve, betrayal, resentment, or uncertainty about the future of their relationship.
Couples therapy gives you a focused space to slow the cycle down, understand what is really happening underneath the conflict, learn better ways to communicate, strategies to stay regulated, and improve connection and trust.
Discernment counseling is a specialized, short term method to assist ambivilant couples in developing clarity in confidence in deciding the future of their relationship.
"Youve talked about it with friends", now it's time to talk it through where real change can occur."
"Stop deferring the real conversation. Commit to making change now."
WHEN YOU’RE NOT SURE WHAT TO DO
Discernment Counseling
If you are not sure whether your relationship is worth saving, couples therapy is not the right starting place. Discernment counseling is.
It is not about fixing the relationship. It is about helping you both arrive at a clear, honest answer about whether you want to — and what the path forward looks like from there
“Short-term, structured sessions for couples where one or both partners are ambivalent about staying together.”
