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Couples Therapist Boulder Co

About Teena Evert

 

Teena Evert Office 2MY TRAINING

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · Colorado #1064
  • Board Certified Coach (BCC)
  • Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology
  • PACT® Level II — Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy
  • TCT® — Transformative Couple Therapy, Experiential Skills & Core Training
  • AEDP® Level II — Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Object Relations Institute — Advanced Clinical Training, New York
  • Advanced study in adult attachment, developmental trauma & personality disorders

I specialize in PACT® (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) and TCT® (Transformational Couples Therapy)  — two rigorous, science-based frameworks that work at the level of psychobiology, attachment, and moment-to-moment experience to help partners build secure functioning. I maintain ongoing consultation relationships with PACT founder Dr. Stan Tatkin and TCT founder David Mars, keeping my work at the leading edge of couples therapy.

Most couples therapy stays at the surface. I bring advanced trauma training that goes deeper — into the nervous system, the body, and the attachment wounds quietly driving the patterns between you. I am not simply trauma-informed — I am trauma-trained. This is why couples who have felt stuck for years begin to move.

WHY I DO THIS WORK

I know what it’s like to be shaped by patterns you didn’t choose. Growing up, I developed survival strategies that protected me then but showed up in my relationships later — in ways I didn’t always recognize until I did the work to see them clearly.

I’ve walked the path I ask my clients to walk. Untangling old dynamics, learning to love from wholeness instead of woundedness, understanding how the past runs the present. That path changed everything for me — and it’s why I believe so deeply that it’s possible for the couples I work with.

Every couple that builds secure functioning carries that forward. Every cycle broken means something different inherited by the next generation. That’s what keeps me in this work.

I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and TCT® and PACT® trained couples therapist based in Boulder, CO. I work exclusively with couples — because the relationship itself is where the deepest healing happens.

I’ve spent my career at the intersection of trauma healing and couples work, training at the highest levels available in this field so I can offer something most couples therapy simply doesn’t reach.

Jeff And Teena CotopaxiA LITTLE MORE ABOUT ME

I practice what I teach. Creating secure relationships isn’t just my work — it’s how I live.

You’ll find me in the mountains most weekends — scrambling peaks, cycling, camping, or backpacking into the alpine with my life partner and friends. Nature is how I regulate, process, and remember what matters. I also stay grounded through strength training and daily meditation.

I take my own nervous system seriously — because I can’t hold space for yours if I’m not tending to mine.

Healing in relationship is possible. I know this not just as a clinician — but as a human being who has walked this path.

Confluence Couples Therapy is the private practice of Teena Evert, MA, LMFT, BCC. The name comes from the geography of rivers — and the philosophy of this work. When two rivers meet, neither disappears. Something new forms at the confluence. That is exactly how Teena understands couples: two people, two nervous systems, two histories — meeting to create a third living entity that is the relationship itself. This is what gets treated here. Not just the individuals. All three — each with their own patterns, their own wounds, and their own capacity to heal.