Feeling unsure whether to repair, pause, separate, or recommit to your relationship.
Relationship Uncertainty
Living with the lingering impact of betrayal, infidelity, secrecy, or another rupture in trust.
Betrayal & Relational Trauma
Feeling misunderstood during conversations and stuck in conflicts that don't seem to resolve.
Communication Breakdown
Feeling emotionally disconnected from your partner or noticing that trust and closeness aren't what they used to be.
Loss of Connection
Attachment-based survival responses such as emotional flooding, shutdown, avoidance, or defensiveness during relationship stress.
Relationship uncertainty and major decision points
Emotional disconnection and loss of intimacy
Repeated conflict, shutdown, avoidance, or defensiveness
Couples counseling in Fort Collins can support you with:
The first step is just a conversation.
Book a complimentary consult, share a bit about where things stand, and find out whether this is the right fit.
If you’re in Fort Collins or anywhere in Northern Colorado — reach out today.
Stop Waiting for Things
to Get Better on Their Own.
Take the First Step
She brings warmth and real clinical expertise to every session — and she is not afraid to go into the hard places where the real work happens.
LPC
EMDR Trained
ART Trained
LAC
Licensed Professional Counselor #11614 · Licensed Addictions Counselor #1162
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.
Hi, I'm Sheila
Your Therapist
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Path to Growth Therapy supports couples across Fort Collins and Northern Colorado who are ready to work through disconnection, betrayal, conflict, uncertainty, or major relationship transitions.
Sessions are available for couples seeking practical, honest, trauma-informed support.
Serving Fort Collins & All of Northern Colorado
THERAPY IN FORT COLLINS
“Ideal for couples working through infidelity, or who simply need more than 50 minutes a week.”
Sessions are available virtually across Colorado. In-Person Intensives available Fort Collins, Loveland, or Denver.
In-Person & Online
Compressed, immersive work designed for couples facing crisis, decision points, or who simply need to move faster.
Couples Intensive
Longer single sessions when 50 minutes is not enough space to do the kind of work your relationship actually needs right now.
Extended Sessions
For Fort Collins couples who don’t want to spend months in weekly sessions slowly touching the things that actually matter, extended sessions and focused intensives offer a 2–3 day container to explore the core relational wounds, work into a dedicated block of time.
Extended Sessions &
Couples Intensives
FOR COUPLES WHO NEED TO MOVE FASTER
DISCLOSURE SUPPORT
EMOTIONAL SAFETY
STRUCTURED REPAIR
Infidelity breaks the foundation of a relationship — not just the trust, but the story you both told yourselves about who you were as a couple.
The path through it, whether it leads to rebuilding or a conscious ending, requires more than time. It requires the right kind of support.
Path to Growth Therapy works with Fort Collins couples at every stage — the acute crisis, the long and messy middle, and the point where clarity finally starts to emerge.
INFIDELITY AND BETRAYAL RECOVERY
INFIDELITY AND BETRAYAL RECOVERY
“In this relationship growth is necessary — if both the real question is whether relationship is the path to take.”
1–5
“Short-term, structured extended sessions for couples where one or both partners are ambivalent about staying together.”
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.
Discernment
Counseling
WHEN YOU’RE NOT SURE WHAT TO DO
“This is where couples begin to understand the deeper pattern — not just the latest argument.”
Emotional Flooding or Shutdown
What You Might Be Experiencing
DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?
Re-establishing emotional connection and developing stronger communication skills
Infidelity, betrayal, and rebuilding trust
Managing nervous-system intensity during difficult conversations
Creating greater clarity and confidence about the future of your relationship
Some relationship struggles aren't only about communication. They can also involve trauma responses, fear, shame, attachment wounds, and old protection patterns that appear during conflict.
What We Work Through
THIS WORK IS DESIGNED FOR
This work is rooted in integrative relationship therapy and informed by Gottman, EFT, RLT, Imago, attachment, trauma, and sex therapy concepts.
You'll come away from sessions with something concrete — tools, frameworks, a clearer understanding of your relationship patterns, and greater confidence about what comes next.
For more information about the overall approach, explore couples therapy and discernment counseling
“Therapy that gets underneath the symptoms — not stuck, actually fixing them.”
You're both capable people. You've handled hard things before.
From the outside, your life might still look functional, even successful. But between you, something has shifted. Communication has broken down, conflict keeps looping without resolution, or something has happened that changed the foundation of trust within your relationship.
Maybe you're dealing with betrayal or infidelity. Maybe you've slowly become disconnected. Or maybe one of you is beginning to question whether the relationship can continue.
If you know something needs to change, couples therapy in Fort Collins can give you a structured place to start.
Identify the patterns that create distance, conflict, shutdown, defensiveness, or repeated arguments that never seem to resolve.
Interrupt the Cycle
01
Practice communication tools that help both partners feel heard, understood, and more confident navigating difficult conversations.
Build Real Skills
02
Work through painful moments while learning how to regulate the nervous system and respond differently during conflict.
Repair & Regulate
03
Structured, Skills-Based, Intervention-Focused Couples Therapy
COUPLES THERAPY THAT ACTUALLY HELPS
Something Has Shifted Between You.
WHEN SOMETHING HAS SHIFTED BETWEEN YOU
Couples therapy in Fort Collins for partners navigating infidelity or betrayal, wanting better communication and connection, or feeling stuck and uncertain about whether to stay together.
Get practical, trauma-informed relationship support designed to help you understand what's happening beneath the conflict and determine what comes next.