FORT COLLINS & NORTHERN COLORADO

Couples Therapy &
Discernment Counseling
in Fort Collins, Colorado

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.

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WHEN SOMETHING HAS SHIFTED BETWEEN YOU

Something Has Shifted
Between You.

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COUPLES THERAPY THAT ACTUALLY HELPS

Structured, Skills-Based,
Intervention-Focused Couples Therapy

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Repair & Regulate

Work through painful moments while learning how to calm the nervous system.

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Build Real Skills

Practice communication tools that help both partners feel heard and understood.

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Interrupt the Cycle

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.

THIS WORK IS DESIGNED FOR

What We
Work Through

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

Does This sounds like you?

What you might be Experiencing

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.”

Let's TALK THROUGH THIS

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.

ASK ABOUT DISCERNMENT COUNSELING

“Short-term, structured extended sessions for couples where one or both partners are ambivalent about staying together.”

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“In this relationship growth is necessary — if both the real question is whether relationship is the path to take.”

INFIDELITY AND BETRAYAL RECOVERY

INFIDELITY AND BETRAYAL RECOVERY

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.

START TRUST REPAIR

STRUCTURED REPAIR

EMOTIONAL SAFETY

DISCLOSURE SUPPORT

FOR COUPLES WHO NEED TO MOVE FASTER

Extended Sessions &
Couples Intensives

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.

INQUIRE ABOUT INTENSIVES

Extended Sessions

Longer single sessions when 50 minutes is not enough space to do the kind of work your relationship actually needs right now.

Couples Intensive

Compressed, immersive work designed for couples facing crisis, decision points, or who simply need to move faster.

In-Person & Online

Sessions are available virtually across Colorado. In-Person Intensives available Fort Collins, Loveland, or Denver.

“Ideal for couples working through infidelity, or who simply need more than 50 minutes a week.”

THERAPY IN FORT COLLINS

Serving Fort Collins &
All of Northern Colorado

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.

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ALL OF COLORADO

FORT COLLINS

WINDSOR

NORTHERN COLORADO

GREELEY

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.

Learn More About Sheila

Licensed Professional Counselor #11614 · Licensed Addictions Counselor #1162

LAC

ART Trained

EMDR Trained

LPC

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.

Take the First Step

Stop Waiting for Things
to Get Better on Their Own.

BOOK A COMPLIMENTARY CONSULT

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.

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