About Teena Evert, MA, LMFT, BCC
Breaking Cycles, Building Secure Love.
Couples therapy at the intersection of trauma and intimate partnership.
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and PACT-trained couples therapist specializing in the intersection of trauma and intimate partnership. My work is built on a single conviction: the patterns damaging your relationship didn’t start with you — and they don’t have to end with your children.
What I Do
I work exclusively with couples — because the relationship itself is where the deepest healing happens.
Most couples arrive having already done real work on themselves — individually, in previous therapy, in honest conversations with each other. And still, something keeps pulling them back into the same patterns. That something lives underneath the level most therapy reaches.
That’s where my work begins.
My Approach
I specialize in PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) — a rigorous, science-based framework that works at the level of biology, attachment, and moment-to-moment experience to help partners build secure functioning.
I also bring advanced training in AEDP, a depth-oriented trauma therapy that reaches what talk therapy alone cannot. I am not simply trauma-informed — I am trauma-trained, with deep clinical expertise in working with complex trauma as it emerges between partners in the room. This is why couples who have felt stuck for years begin to move.
Who I Work With
High-functioning partners who are bewildered by what happens inside their relationship. People ready to heal at the root, not manage symptoms. Couples carrying patterns that were never theirs to carry in the first place.
My Training
Master’s degree in clinical psychology. Advanced training in PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy), AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), and adult attachment and developmental trauma. Board Certified Coach (BCC). I consult regularly with Stan Tatkin, the founder of PACT — a practice that keeps my clinical work at the leading edge of couples therapy.
Why Couples Work
I didn’t start out as a couples therapist. I became one because I kept seeing the same thing: individuals doing deep, sincere healing work — and still struggling the moment they were back inside their relationship.
That’s when I understood. The relationship has its own nervous system. Its own patterns. Its own momentum. And it needs its own treatment.
I’ve done my own work inside partnership — the kind that requires you to see yourself clearly, stay present under pressure, and choose differently than what was modeled for you. That experience sits underneath everything I do in the room with couples.
It’s not just clinical knowledge. It’s earned understanding.
A 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 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.
You can be the one who breaks the cycle.
In person in Boulder, CO · Online throughout the US