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Couples Therapy
(This service is offered exclusively by Jacqueline Armijo, AMFT.)

We offer couples therapy to support relationships through challenges, transitions, or even to strengthen connection and growth. Whether you and your partner are struggling with recurring conflicts, seeking deeper emotional intimacy, or navigating life changes — couples therapy is a space for healing, understanding, and mutual growth.

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Who Might Benefit

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What This Therapy Can Help With

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Long‑Term Benefits

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How We Support Your Healing Journey

  • Couples experiencing ongoing communication difficulties, frequent arguments, misunderstandings, or emotional disconnection.

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  • Partners going through major life transitions (e.g. becoming parents, relocating, career changes, blending families) or external stressors (work, finances, family pressures) that impact the relationship. 

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  • Couples wanting to deepen emotional intimacy, rebuild trust, or reconnect on a deeper level after distance, hardship, or trauma. 

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  • Couples who want to build a solid foundation proactively — nurturing healthy communication, shared understanding, and relational resilience even before crises arise. 

  • Improved Communication & Understanding — Gain tools to express needs, fears, hopes and feelings more clearly, and to listen and validate each other’s perspectives. 

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  • Healthier Conflict Resolution — Learn to navigate disagreements constructively, reduce misunderstandings, and avoid repeated “fight → breakdown → avoidance” cycles. 

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  • Deeper Emotional Intimacy & Connection — Rebuild closeness, empathy, trust, and emotional safety — often essential after emotional distance, betrayal, or life stress. 

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  • Shared Resilience Through Life Stressors — Address external pressures (work stress, financial strain, family demands) together, aligning priorities and supporting each other emotionally. 
     

  • Strengthening Shared Vision & Partnership — Clarify values, expectations, life goals together (finances, parenting, lifestyle, boundaries), helping build a partnership rooted in mutual respect and understanding. 

  • Stronger sense of mutual understanding, empathy, and emotional safety. 

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  • Better ability to handle conflicts, stress, and life changes together — rather than letting these drive disconnection or resentment. 

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  • Improved intimacy — emotional, communicative, and often physical — and renewed trust and closeness. 

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  • Increased relationship satisfaction and stability. Research on methods like the Gottman Method shows lasting improvements in intimacy and adjustment. 

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  • Growth at both individual and partnership levels: greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, and relational skills that carry forward beyond therapy.

As trauma-informed therapists, we are dedicated to supporting couples as they navigate the complexities of their relationship and individual experiences. Here’s how we support you and your partner:

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  • Safe and Compassionate Space: We provide a non-judgmental environment where both partners can openly explore feelings, patterns, and challenges in the relationship.

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  • Personalized And Evidence-Based: Our work is tailored to your unique relationship dynamics, drawing from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), attachment-based therapy, CBT for couples, psychodynamic couples work, somatic approaches, and—when appropriate—EMDR-informed support to help you shift stuck patterns, deepen connection, and create lasting change.

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  • Educational Resources: We provide guidance and tools to help you understand relational patterns, attachment styles, and effective communication strategies, empowering you to navigate challenges together.

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  • Collaborative Healing: We work with both partners to set goals, strengthen connection, resolve conflicts, and foster empathy and mutual support, ensuring you feel guided and supported every step of the way.

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Insurance & Sliding Scale

This service accepts the following insurance plans:
 

  • Aetna

  • Cigna

  • Healthnet PPO

  • UHC

  • Optum

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If you’re not sure whether your plan is covered, we’re happy to help check your benefits.

We also offer a sliding scale rate to make therapy more accessible. Please contact us to discuss your options and see what fits your needs.

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If you and your partner are looking to strengthen connection, resolve recurring issues, rediscover intimacy, or create a healthier partnership — you don’t have to wait until things "break down." Couples therapy can help at any stage.

Reach out to begin a conversation. Let’s work together to build a relationship grounded in empathy, respect, trust, and mutual growth.

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