Couples Therapy in Chandler AZ
Partners in Resiliency Specializes in Emotionally Focused Couples Counseling
Couples Therapy Is for You If You’re…
- A couple in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, or Phoenix
- Feeling distant, stuck, or emotionally disconnected
- Having the same arguments on repeat—with no resolution
- Struggling to communicate needs without conflict or shutdown
- Navigating infidelity, loss, or a major life transition (like a new baby or empty nesting)
- Facing parenting disagreements or challenges with in-laws
- Lacking emotional or physical intimacy
- Feeling more like roommates than romantic partners
- Wanting to reconnect, repair, and grow stronger together
Couples Therapy Helps You Get Unstuck—Together
When your relationship feels like it’s drifting or drowning, therapy provides a lifeline. At Partners in Resiliency in Chandler, we specialize in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)—a research-backed, evidence-based approach that helps partners break through negative cycles, rebuild trust, and foster deep emotional connection.
Couples therapy isn’t just about solving problems—it’s about strengthening your bond and learning to face challenges as a team. Whether you’re fighting frequently or avoiding the hard stuff altogether, we guide you to communicate honestly, repair emotional injuries, and build a secure foundation for the future. Couples counseling can help you:
- Rebuild trust after betrayal or years of disconnection
- Communicate without defensiveness or escalation
- Identify unmet needs and express them safely
- Navigate trauma or emotional triggers with more understanding
- Rekindle sexual desire and physical closeness
- Feel like a team again
Areas of Focus in Couples Counseling
- Communication Breakdowns & Conflict Cycles
Learn to recognize and stop repetitive arguments before they escalate. - Emotional Closeness & Attachment
Strengthen your bond by understanding each other’s emotional needs and longings. - Infidelity Recovery & Trust Repair
Heal from betrayal and work toward rebuilding safety and connection. - Parenting, Blended Families & In-Law Stress
Get aligned on parenting styles and manage outside relationship pressures. - Sexual Intimacy & Desire
Reignite passion, explore unmet needs, and resolve challenges in a shame-free space. - Major Transitions & Life Stress
From loss to new beginnings, therapy helps couples navigate change together. - Individual Trauma in a Relationship Context
Understand how trauma shapes your relationship dynamics—and how to heal as a couple.
The Work Could Look Like
- Identify your conflict cycle — Discover the pattern that keeps pulling you apart.
- Strengthen emotional awareness — Learn to express your needs without blame or shutdown.
- Repair and rebuild trust — Whether from betrayal, emotional injuries, or distance.
- Enhance emotional & sexual intimacy — Create safety, desire, and connection.
- Grow in vulnerability and resilience — Learn how to truly turn toward each other.
- 60, 90, or 120 minute tailored sessions weekly
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) as our core framework, with Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and trauma-informed tools
- Couples therapy designed for heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and pansexual couples; monogamous, polyamorous, and ethically non-monogamous relationships; married or unmarried partners; interfaith or intercultural couples; long-distance relationships; and partners of all gender identities and backgrounds.
- In-person or secure telehealth
Common Questions About Couples Therapy
WHAT IF I WANT TO COME TO COUPLES THERAPY BUT MY PARTNER DOESN’T
This is common! There is still work that we can do to help you with your side of the relationship. Often time, the partner needs to see that therapy “works” before committing. We can still help you with your part of the relationship until your partner is ready.
WILL IT SAVE OUR RELATIONSHIP?
Therapy is no guarantee that your relationship can be saved. However, if two partners are willing to put in the work, take a good look at themselves, are humble and will practice what we talk about in therapy, things can improve!
WHAT DO WE DO IN COUPLES THERAPY?
In couples therapy, we will do what your relationship needs to improve. This often looks like going over your relationship history, talking about what you want to improve, and most importantly learning how to validate and listen to one another. If your relationship needs more specific support, your therapist will help you!
IS IT COVERED BY INSURANCE?
Couples therapy is not a diagnosis that we can submit to your insurance company. Sometimes there are concurrent mental health struggles going such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, ADHD, etc that we work on, while also doIng couples therapy, and insurance will cover that. If after assessment there isn’t a diagnosis for us to ethically submit, we will let you know and discuss the payment options moving forward.
IF I COME WITH MY PARTNER, WILL I GET A CHANCE TO TALK TO YOU ALONE?
Yes, you can! Oftentimes, we structure our couples sessions the following way: session 1: intake as a couple, session 2: individual session with partner 1, session 3: individual session with partner 2, session 4: back together again. This helps get a more thorough history of your life and relationship, which helps us create goals and a treatment plan, keeping both you and your partner in mind. Please keep in mind that during your individual session with your couples therapist, your therapist will not keep a secret from your spouse. You will receive more info about this in your intake paperwork
ARE WE JUST PAYING FOR SOMEONE TO LISTEN?
Absolutely not! If you want someone to just listen, you can talk to your friends. Our couples therapists are trained to listen to what you and your partner are saying, and decipher where to go from there. So while at first it may look that way, your therapist is assessing and watching and listening to what you say and how you say it, to help give you feedback and guidance and support
Ready to reconnect with your partner? You don’t have to do it alone.
