Marital / Couples Counseling | Steamboat Springs, CO

Struggling in your relationship and not sure where to turn? Couples counseling could be the help you need.

I’m here to support you. I work with couples to build a strong, secure relationship where you both feel safe, understood, and close. Together, you’ll learn how to create a more fulfilling partnership and rediscover the love you both deserve.

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What is Relationship Counseling?

As a therapist trained in PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy), I specialize in helping couples work through any challenges they may face. Whether you’re seeking pre-marriage counseling or looking to strengthen a relationship that’s at risk, PACT can provide the tools to help you connect, communicate, and rebuild trust. This approach is designed to address both everyday relationship struggles and deeper issues that may be threatening your partnership.

Improve Your Relationship With Couples Counseling

Improve Your Relationship With Couples Counseling

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1. Schedule a Consultation

Schedule a free consultation call to find out how couples counseling can help improve your relationship.

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2. Attend Couples Sessions

You’ll learn key principles for building a secure, healthy relationship and start experiencing the benefits of feeling safe, supported, and connected with your partner.

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3. Build Deeper Intimacy

You’ll each learn how to create a safe, secure, and mutually supportive relationship dynamic.

The Couples Counseling Process

In PACT, we quickly identify the root causes of relationship distress so that we can restore secure functioning, where partners are attentive, responsive, and supportive of each other.

During our sessions, I pay close attention to moment-to-moment shifts in body language and help you notice these changes in each other as well. This helps deepen your understanding of each other’s emotional needs.

Sometimes, we may recreate difficult experiences from your relationship in real-time, giving you the chance to process and resolve them together.

PACT sessions are 1 hour and 50 minutes, allowing us to dive deeper into the issues and create lasting changes—so you can begin to experience stronger connection, fairness, and collaboration in your relationship more quickly.

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With couples counseling, you will:

  • Gain tools to improve communication, resolve conflicts, and strengthen your bond
  • Have a safe space to explore difficult emotions and sensitive topics together
  • Learn to attune to each other’s emotional needs and reactions
  • Get to the heart of conflict and underlying tension in your relationship
  • Increase intimacy and satisfaction in your connection, both emotionally and physically

You are in good hands if you are seeing Dr. McGuffin for couples counseling. She is a PACT Level 3 Couples Counselor and seasoned clinician. PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) is a cutting-edge counseling approach which incorporates principles of neurobiology, attachment and nervous system regulation.

Her PACT skills combined with her warm, intuitive counseling style and clinical experience will enable you and your partner to create the close, trusting relationship you both deserve. I highly recommend Dr. McGuffin!

Healthy relationships are not something we just fall into—they are skills we build over time. However, many of us didn’t learn these skills in our families of origin, and they are not often taught by our culture. Through therapy, you can learn secure functioning principles that will help you build a relationship where both partners feel safe, secure, and supported. This process helps create stronger emotional bonds and fosters a more fulfilling, balanced partnership.

Connection and genuine intimacy are achievable when both partners are committed to creating them.

Dr. Nicole, a well-known emotional therapist, loves spending time in nature.