Email: Info@thrivebeyondtraumacounseling.com
Call: (248) 392- 3733
Counselling
Counselling
Rebuilding Emotional Safety, Connection, and Closeness
Trauma-Informed Couple Therapy in Farmington Hills
Available in-person and virtually across Michigan.
Many couples don’t come to therapy because something dramatic happened.
They come because the relationship no longer feels close, easy, or emotionally safe.
You may notice:
- Growing emotional distance
- A sense that something meaningful has shifted
- Intimacy feels pressured, avoided, or confusing
- Tension that never fully resolves
*Disconnection is a signal — Not a verdict.*
This work centers on:
- Rebuilding emotional safety
- Regulating the nervous system
- Repairing attachment ruptures
- Restoring intimacy at a pace the relationship can tolerate
*Repair begins with safety, not solutions.*
Connection often erodes gradually rather than suddenly.
Common contributors include:
- Unresolved conflict
- Chronic stress or burnout
- Emotional misattunement
- Life transitions or role changes
- Patterns of pursuit and withdrawal
- Unspoken resentment
*Distance grows when safety erodes.*
- Attachment-based couples therapy
- Gottman-informed repair skills
- Trauma-informed nervous-system regulation
- Emotional attunement and pacing
- Slowing reactive cycles
- Increasing emotional awareness
- Helping partners feel seen and understood
- Rebuilding safety before vulnerability
*Regulation comes before resolution.*
- Gently
- Consensually
- Without performance expectations
- Without forcing closeness
- Emotional intimacy
- Physical closeness
- Differences and desire
- Safety around touch and vulnerability
Intimacy is rebuilt at the pace trust allows.
*Intimacy returns when safety leads.*
This service may be right for you if:
- You want to feel closer and safer together
- Intimacy has faded or feels tense
- Communication feels strained but workable
- You want support without crisis intensity
- You are open to slowing down and repairing
You do not need to be in crisis to seek support.
*Connection can be rebuilt.*
Couples may need a different starting point when there is:
- Ongoing deception
- Addiction-related betrayal
- Disclosure is unresolved or avoided
- Significant emotional destabilization
In these cases, couples are often supported first through:
*Timing matters in relational healing.*
- A starting point for reconnection
- A return-to-repair phase after betrayal recovery
- Support during high-stress life transitions
- Couples Therapy
- Couples Healing After Betrayal
- Post-Disclosure Deep Couples Work
Care is matched to where your relationship is right now.
*Repair is part of a larger healing ecosystem.*
You are not broken.
Healing begins with a single step — Reaching out.
When you’re ready, we’re here