Grow Together, Not Apart
Repair Your Bond: Expert Marriage Counseling
Expert Denver Marriage Counseling: Real Help For Your Relationship
Turn Conflict Into Connection
Have you been feeling disconnected from your partner? Maybe you’ve been feeling hurt or frustrated, or like a new fight is always simmering just under the surface. Maybe you’re struggling to communicate, or feel like your trust and formerly secure connection has been damaged. If so, you’re not alone. All couples go through periods of disconnection.
These are “cross-road” moments for marriages: One path leads to a stronger, happier, and healthier relationship than ever before — and the other leads to increasing negativity, resentment and mistrust that can erode your connection.
Couples who avoid addressing problems, continue in negative, hurtful patterns, or wait too long to get help can destroy their trust in each other… and their commitment to the relationship.
Stop Fighting, and Start Understanding.
This is a huge opportunity to improve your relationship. Pain creates motivation to change. Smart couples who care about their marriages seize moments like these, and make the investment in professional support and guidance. This gets them on the “healthy path” towards deeper connection.
Good marriage counseling helps you learn about each other, solve problems, learn how to communicate and repair your faith in each other. Couples who walk through the fire together and come out the other side have a stronger, deeper connection than couples in untested relationships.
Believe it or not, you can look back on this “rough patch” as the best thing that ever happened in your marriage, if you seize this moment… and use it to grow together.
We Help Couples:
- Communicate With Each Other
- Stop Fighting, and Start Understanding
- Create Deeper Emotional Connection
- Repair Your Sexual Relationship
- Restore Trust and Security After Infidelity
- Resolve Long-standing Differences
- Parent as a Team
- Create Agreement Around Responsibilities, Money, Kids and More
- Bring Peace To a Blended Family
- Cope With Infertility, Postpartum, and Becoming Parents
- Support and Accept Each Other
- Build a Strong, Healthy Family
- Love and Respect Each Other
- Build a Life of Shared Meaning and Purpose
- Enjoy Each Other Again
Our Evidence-Based Marriage Counseling is Positive, Productive and Effective.
Thanks so much for helping us find our strong bond again. We can’t tell you how much it’s helped us.
POWERFUL
The marriage counselors of Growing Self have specialized education, training and experience in marriage counseling.
We know how to help you reconnect emotionally, restore trust, improve communication, solve problems together, and create deeper levels of intimacy.
POSITIVE
Marriage Counseling with us is a positive experience. Our highly trained, professional marriage counselors know how to set you both at ease, and feel heard, valued, and understood.
Even reluctant partners often leave their consultation feeling excited, hopeful, and committed to the process.
PRODUCTIVE
We help you have productive new experiences that grow your understanding of yourselves… and each other.
You’ll leave each session with new hope, new ideas, new agreements, and a plan of action to make the specific changes that will improve your relationship.
EFFECTIVE
We use the two, evidence based approaches to help our couples: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, which helps you understand each other and repair your attachment on a deep level, and The Gottman Method, which teaches you specific skills to communicate more effectively, and take positive action to repair your love.
You provided us such a safe place to be honest with ourselves and with each other our fear of being vulnerable and weak were transformed into a feeling of opportunity to be heard. My husband and I are better friends, parents, lovers and companions than we have ever been.
Meet a Few Of Our Relationship Experts
The marriage counselors, couples therapists and premarital counselors of Growing Self have specialized training and years of experience in helping couples reconnect. We use only evidence based strategies that have been proven by research to help you restore your strong bond, and love your relationship again.
Hunter Tolman
M.S., MFTC
Hunter is a warm, compassionate marriage counselor, couples therapist, and parenting coach who believes in love, and that strong marriages create strong families. He practices Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, which is an evidence-based form of marriage counseling that focuses on helping you create a strong, secure attachment built on trust and empathy.
His gentle, but effective approach can help you open up with each other, and have healing conversations that repair your bond and allow you both to consistently show each other the love and respect you both deserve. Hunter's roots are in Utah, but he is currently based in Colorado. He can serve you as a couples therapist or marriage counselor in Fort Collins, CO and Broomfield, CO, and he provides online marriage counseling & relationship coaching to couples across the US and around the world.
Meagan Terry
M.A., LMFT
Meagan Terry is a relationship specialist. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over nine years of experience in helping couples reconnect, and enjoy each other again. She specializes in Denver marriage counseling, Denver premarital counseling, and online relationship coaching.
Meagan uses effective, evidence based forms of marriage counseling including Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy and The Gottman Method. In addition to working one-on-one with couples, she teaches our Lifetime of Love premarital and relationship class. Meagan is available to meet with you for marriage counseling or couples therapy in Denver, and for relationship coaching and premarital counseling online.
Georgiana Spradling
PhD, MFT
Dr. Georgiana is a couples counselor and relationship coach with a "tough love" style. Her no-nonsense approach and direct feedback can help you get clarity about what's creating issues in your relationship, develop emotional intelligence skills, change the way you interact with each other, and negotiate your differences in order to build bridges to the center.
Dr. Georgiana is a certified coach as well as a licensed as a marriage and family therapist in California but she specializes in online relationship coaching. She divides her time between San Francisco and Buenos Aires. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French.
Anastacia Sams
M.A., N.C.C., LMFT-C
I’m Anastacia Sams: a licensed therapist, life coach, and marriage counselor who is all about helping you create the very best life for yourself and for your relationships. I specialize in a type of evidence-based marriage counseling called Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, that helps you rebuild your secure, strong bond.
I’ve been told that my warm, gentle style immediately sets people at ease. Working with me, you’ll feel safe, cared for, and understood. And through that non-judgmental understanding, you will heal, grow, and — most importantly — understand yourself.”
Neha Prabhu
M.S., MFTC
Neha is an open-minded relationship therapist and life coach with an authentic approach. She believes you are the agent of change, and she can help you activate systems that lead to achieving your goals. She is a strength-based and solution-focused therapist and coach in her work with couples and individuals. Neha believes that to experience personal growth, you must build from what works best for you. In her work as a life coach, therapist, and marriage counselor she help clients to understand their identity, establish strengths, and feel empowered.
Love Advice From Our Blog + Podcast
Three Practical Tips for Productive Communication (when you are both stressed)
Stress levels are high, and for many couples, this is affecting their ability to find time to connect. Online Marriage Counselor and Relationship Coach, Teresa Thomas, M.A., AP has 3 practical tips for productive communication for when you and your partner are both stressed.
How to be Successful Online Dating
The online dating world can be a jungle. Online therapist and dating coach Jessica Small, M.A., LMFT shares her top tips for online dating. From creating your profile, avoiding red flags and disappointment, to setting yourself up for success!
What to Do When Your Partner Has a Problem.
Are you in a relationship with someone who is struggling, but won’t get help? Relationship advice for how to balance being supportive while also setting healthy boundaries for yourself, on this episode of the Love, Happiness and Success Podcast.