Couples Therapy
IN PERSON IN BOULDER, CO
When you and your partner are at the end of your rope, you need communication skills and a structured roadmap to get better.
You’ll gain concrete skills, practice them in the room, and experience real-time relief.
It’s time to to call Teena when you have…
- Given up hope
- Tried other couple therapists
- Are tired of talking
- Can’t escape their pasts
- Read all the self-help books
- Been feeling stuck
It’s not your intellect, it’s your biology.
You can’t think or talk your way out of a flawed system. But you can learn the skills to outsmart your nervous system and past patterns. Therapy is a training platform for how to evolve and grow. Gain and practice the skills you need for a thriving relationship.
WHAT TO EXPECT
My approach is to treat the couple system- transforming its dysfunction into strengths. We work to take stress off the couple system, so both partners experience relief in the room before the session ends.
A malfunctioning couple system is not the fault of one partner or the other– we find a better way without blame.
We work in real time — with what’s happening between you in the room, not just what you report about the week.
That means watching how you move toward and away from each other, noticing the moments of disconnection as they occur, and working with your nervous systems directly rather than just talking about them.
The first session is three hours. Not an intake — a genuine deep dive into what’s actually driving your cycles and the beginning of a real map forward. Follow-up sessions run 90 to 120 minutes. That length is a clinical necessity.
Reaching the patterns that drive your conflict and disconnection takes time. Coming back to each other safely before you leave takes the rest of it.
COUPLES THERAPY INTENSIVE
FOR PARTNERS WHO CAN’T WAIT FOR WEEKLY SESSIONS TO WORK
Some couples don’t have the luxury of time. The conflict is too frequent, the distance too wide, or the crisis too close. A weekly 50-minute session — no matter how skilled the therapist — simply isn’t enough structure to interrupt entrenched cycles.
The Couples Therapy Intensive is designed for that.
HOW IT WORKS
Two consecutive 5-7 hour days of immersive, focused work.
Seven to ten days later, you return for a two-hour follow-up session to consolidate the work, assess what has shifted, and build your roadmap forward.
WHO IT’S FOR
- Couples in acute crisis who need more than weekly therapy can offer
- Partners who have limited time due to travel, demanding schedules, or distance
- Those who want to compress months of work into a focused, structured experience
- Couples preparing for a major transition — a move, a decision, a new chapter
WHAT’S DIFFERENT
The extended format allows us to move past the surface — past the presenting argument and into the underlying attachment patterns driving it. You have time to get activated, to practice new responses, and to return to each other before you leave. Repeatedly.
You don’t just leave with insight. You leave having practiced something new together, in real time, with support.
Intensives are held in person at Teena’s Boulder office.
To inquire about availability, contact Teena directly.