COUPLES THERAPY in Folsom, CA
Strengthen your relationship or recover from infidelity or betrayal.
Build intimacy, develop trust, and increase your bond.
In the early days of your relationship, you felt unconditionally loved, supported, and like you could conquer the world together.
But relationships have a way of revealing both the best and the hardest parts of us, often bringing past experiences into the present. Now, instead of being a united front, it feels like it’s you against your partner. You’re stuck in a painful cycle of hurt, disconnection, and frustration that neither of you can break on your own.
Create meaningful changes in your life.
Old wounds you thought had healed are resurfacing, and it feels like your partner keeps pressing on those sensitive spots. Whether intentional or not, their actions trigger anger in you, when really, beneath the surface, it’s pain that’s driving your reactions.At the beginning of your relationship, you felt unconditionally loved, supported, valued, and like the two of you could take on the world.
What once felt like the two of you against the world now feels like you’re on opposite sides. But this doesn’t have to be the end of your story.
Relationships have a way of bringing out the best and worst in all of us—including how each of your pasts affects how you relate—you’re hitting struggles that leave both of you hurt, disconnected, alone, angry, and betrayed.
We offer Couples Counseling for partners navigating challenges such as:
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Betrayal
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Infidelity (Person & Object)
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Addiction & Recovery
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Parenting Struggles
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Becoming New Parents
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Transitions of All Kinds (Moves, New Jobs, Empty Nest)
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Codependency
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EMDR / Trauma
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PTSD / CPTSD
Things Might Seem Hopeless
But couples therapy can help.
Seeking a Real, Lasting Connection
We all dream of that fairytale romance sold to us in movies, but real, meaningful relationships are built through trial, growth, and transformation. At Soul Journey Therapy, we recognize that every couple's journey is unique, and we tailor our approach to fit your specific needs.
We offer couples therapy for:
LGBTQIA+ couples
Neurodiverse partners
First responders
Couples at every stage—from newlyweds to empty nesters
Your Relationship is Our Focus
In our couples therapy, your relationship becomes the client, and we’re fully on its side. We dive deep into understanding each partner’s past and present experiences to uncover how they impact your connection. With empathy, compassion, insight, and even a touch of humor, we help you build a strong foundation.
Our Approach
We start by teaching you to communicate more effectively, helping you both feel heard and understood. Through safe, guided conversations, we’ll help you:
Express and identify emotions that may have gone unspoken.
Recognize unmet needs and articulate them to your partner.
Break free from unhelpful cycles and patterns that keep you stuck.
Build deeper emotional and physical intimacy.
Support one another as individuals while growing together as a couple.
Heal past trauma using approaches like EMDR to remove barriers to closeness.
What You Can Expect
Through our work together, you'll learn to:
Foster a nurturing, resilient relationship that grows with you.
Communicate mindfully and stay present with one another.
Resolve conflicts in a way that strengthens rather than divides.
Reconnect emotionally, becoming more attuned and empathetic.
Infidelity Recovery
When one partner in a committed relationship is unfaithful it can be devastating for the relationship. It can turn the betrayed partner’s life upside down leaving our world feeling chaotic, confusing, and emotionally unstable/unsafe. We feel isolated, jealous, and have so many questions.
Not only does the betrayal impact your feelings about the relationship but it also impacts your feelings about yourself.
The betraying partner may feel confused and overwhelmed. How do you help when you have hurt your partner so much?
At Soul Journey Therapy we work with all kinds of betrayal and infidelity including:
Sexual Infidelity- Physically cheating, when one partner becomes involved in physical attachment outside of the original relationship
Emotional Infidelity- one partner becomes emotionally attached to another person
Cyber Affairs- may take place through sexts and chats but never happen in real life
Financial Infidelity- when one or both lie to each other about money or finances
Object Infidelity- Neglect of the relationship for an outside interest like work or a hobby
The definition of an infidelity can vary from couple to couple. Often a betrayal occurs when one partner breaches the previously set boundaries of the relationship whether verbally discussed or assumed.
Infidelity can end your relationship but it doesn’t have to.
With the guidance and support of a therapist and couples counseling, you can heal from this trauma and emerge even stronger, with a deeper level of connection.
Trauma / CPTSD
We know the things that happened in our past can impact our day-to-day life. However, it's now affecting your relationship.
Interactions that start as a small miscommunication often escalate out of proportion, and reactions become more extreme than they should be. All of a sudden, one or both of you are reacting defensively, and you don’t understand why.
Sometimes you or your partner also seem completely checked out and not all there. It feels like the relationship is being pushed away, but at the same time, it is being desperately clung to.
Both of you want to get back to feeling connected, and a relationship that is a loving, stable, calm space that you both desperately want, need, and deserve.
In couples therapy, we’ll help you understand and heal from the hurtful things that happened in the past so that they no longer interfere with the relationship. We’ll help you understand each other. From there, you can build a stronger foundation where you can grow together and communicate with empathy.
The two of you can have the healthy dynamic that you crave.
Neurodiverse Couples
The difference between the way the two of you engage with the world has been making it harder and harder for the two of you to connect. The way your partner behaves or communicates leaves you feeling uncared for and ignored.
The differences between you are making it difficult to receive the love and understanding that each of you deserves in your relationship.
Sometimes it is so hard to see the other’s point of view and understand where your partner is coming from.
Couples counseling with a therapist who understands neurodivergence can help you to get back on the same page, to help you understand each other's needs, and to learn to communicate in a way that leaves both of you feeling heard.
First Responder Couples
As a couple where one member is always on for their work, when that work is all-consuming and dangerous, it makes being present at home significantly difficult.
As the partner, you know to make plans expecting that they won’t be there, and it’s just a bonus if they are. You spend parts of your day worrying they might not make it home.
As the First Responder, you want to be present in your family, and you are trying, but the pull from work is always there, even when you are supposed to be off. If you are off it’s easier to check out.
The stress impacts the connection between you and your spouse - you react more intensely than you mean to over little things.
You want things to be better.
But it feels like so much of this is just part of the job but how do you keep it from ruining your marriage?
In couples therapy for First Responder Couples, we work with the stress and trauma (with EMDR) that is part of the job and help you figure out how to make it manageable as a team and not so isolating. You’ll learn tools that will bring you closer together as a couple.
Couples Struggling With Addiction
Addiction can feel like it’s tearing apart the fabric of your relationship, leaving both partners feeling desperate, hurt, and overwhelmed. Watching someone you love fall deeper into addiction, and seeing its painful impact on both your lives, can be heartbreaking. When addiction enters a partnership, it can create distance, erode trust, and leave both partners feeling isolated, powerless, and overwhelmed. For the partner facing addiction, feelings of shame, guilt, and self-doubt may add to the struggle. For the other, there may be feelings of anger, fear, betrayal, or disconnect.
Couples therapy can provide a path forward, fostering understanding, resilience, and hope. Counseling offers a space for each partner to openly share their experiences and feelings, and to work toward rebuilding trust and connection. Here, both partners can explore their roles in the cycle of addiction, learn healthier ways to communicate, and address the impact of addiction on their relationship.
How can you move forward as a couple?
Recovery is challenging, but with the right support, couples can work through the pain and find ways to reconnect and grow stronger together. Couples therapy offers hope, tools, and the guidance needed to move beyond addiction’s impact, rebuilding a future rooted in understanding, empathy, and resilience.
Rediscover Each Other As New Parents
Welcoming a new baby is a life-changing experience, but it often challenges relationships. Sleepless nights, new responsibilities, and a lack of personal time can make you feel disconnected or frustrated with each other. It’s natural to feel like the intimacy and understanding you once shared are slipping away.
Couples therapy offers a compassionate space to reconnect. Our approach helps you:
Rebuild Your Connection: Find ways to prioritize each other amid the demands of parenting.
Improve Communication: Share openly, fostering empathy and understanding.
Adapt to New Roles: Balance shifts in responsibilities as you both embrace parenthood.
No couple is perfect; we all bring our own stuff to a relationship. It’s not about striving for perfection—it’s about finding a partner who will navigate life's ups and downs with you, side by side. At Soul Journey Therapy, couples therapy helps you reprioritize your relationship, rediscover your bond with each other, and grow together through this new chapter. If you are interested in couples counseling, reach out for a free consultation.
