Whether you're caught in the same argument, recovering from betrayal, or simply feeling disconnected, your relationship deserves intentional care. Therapy provides a place to repair, reconnect, and move forward.

FOR THE HIGH-ACHIEVERS

You have built a life together in one of the most ambitious cities in the world. You know how to problem-solve, how to push through, how to make things work. But lately, something between you two is not working and the usual strategies are not helping.
Maybe you are roommates more than partners. Maybe the same argument keeps cycling back no matter how many times you resolve it. Maybe one of you is quietly wondering if this relationship still has a future and neither of you knows how to say it out loud.

Your relationship deserves more than squeezing difficult conversations into the cracks of a busy week. Couples therapy offers dedicated time to slow down, strengthen communication, and rebuild the connection you've been missing.
If you are ready to stop managing and start actually healing, this is the place to begin. 

"I have talked about it a thousand times. I just want someone to actually help us change."

The Methods

Through evidenced based research, we may use assessments to understand the inner workings of your relationship to help build the scaffolding and skills to address conflict and create safety for repair and reconnection. Through the use of EFT, you will understand your and your partners attachment needs that lie underneath the surface of arguments.  

Together, we'll build empathy, strengthen communication, and explore the difficult conversations—from intimacy, desire, and sexuality to identity, LGBTQIA+ experiences, nontraditional relationship structures, betrayal, and trauma—through a collaborative, direct, and trauma-informed lens that helps both partners feel understood while creating meaningful, lasting change.

Does This Sound Like You?

You are at a crossroads and want to try before committing to a path forward.

You both want connection but keep hitting a wall of misunderstanding, defensiveness, or disconnection.

You need something more than just talking  you want tools, structure, and real change.

Washington State

For When You're Done Waiting

For couples who can't wait months to feel different, extended sessions and couples intensives compress the most impactful work into a dedicated period of time. For Seattle couples navigating high-pressure lives, this format can be a complete game changer.

"The most impactful work, compressed into a dedicated block of time."

For When You're Done Waiting

Sheila Trabelsi is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado and Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington with over a decade of experience. She works with couples, high-achievers, professionals, and anyone who has been quietly carrying more than they let on.

Her practice is informed by integrating evidence based models like Gottman, attachment based EFT, a touch of empathetic understanding from Imago techniques and trauma-informed RLT all to create a dynamic, tailored approach to working with couples. Trained in Integrative Couples and Sex Therapy, she is a Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP) and one of Washington's specialized Couples Infidelity Repair therapists. She brings a direct, deeply human approach  and she is not afraid to go where the real work is.

Licensed Professional Counselor #11614 · Licensed Addictions Counselor #1162

Take the First Step

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 Washington couples at every stage — the acute crisis, the long and messy middle, and the point where clarity finally starts to emerge.

Infidelity & Betrayal Recovery

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.

For When You're Not sure what to do

For When You're Not sure you will ever trust again

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