For couples navigating infidelity, yearning for better communication/connection, or feeling stuck or uncertainty about whether to stay together — this is the place to start.
Work through painful moments while learning how to calm the nervous system.
Practice communication tools that help both partners feel heard and understood.
Identify the patterns that create distance, conflict, shutdown, or defensiveness.
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 — the communication has broken down, conflict keeps looping without resolution, or something has happened that has changed the foundation and trust within your relationship.
If you know something needs to change, this is the place to start.
“Therapy that gets underneath the symptoms — not stuck, actually fixing them.”
Rooted in Integrative and informed Gottman, EFT, RLT, Imago and Sex Therapy concepts. You will come away from each session with something concrete — tools, framework, and a clearer understanding of your pattern and confidence about next steps.
Not just the feeling that you vented for an hour.
Some relationship struggles are not only about communication. They are also about trauma responses, fear, shame, and old protection patterns that show up during conflict.
Re-establishing emotional connection & development of communication skills
Creating clarity & confidence towards the future of your relationship
Nervous system intensity & regulation during communication
Infidelity and betrayal crisis & recovery
Attachment-based survival responses like emotional flooding, shutdown, or avoidance cycles in relational stress
Feeling emotional disconnect and loss of trust
Feeling misunderstood in communication and stuck conflicts that don't seem to resolve
The linger impact of betrayal and relational trauma
Feeling unsure whether to repair, pause, separate, or recommit.
“This is where couples begin to understand the deeper pattern — not just the latest argument.”
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 extended sessions for couples where one or both partners are ambivalent about staying together.”
“In this relationship growth is necessary — if both the real question is whether relationship is the path to take.”
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.
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.
“Ideal for couples working through infidelity, or who simply need more than 50 minutes a week.”
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.
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.
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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.
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.