Couples Therapy in Arcadia, CA

You may love each other but still feel stuck in the same painful cycle.

Conversations turn into arguments. One partner shuts down while the other feels ignored. Small issues become bigger than expected, and it becomes harder to feel close, safe, or understood.

Couples therapy can help you slow down the pattern, better understand what is happening between you, and begin building healthier ways to communicate, reconnect, and move forward.

At Aspire Counseling Group, we provide couples therapy in Arcadia, CA and online throughout California for couples navigating communication difficulties, recurring conflict, emotional distance, trust concerns, parenting stress, life transitions, and relationship strain.

Our therapists work to understand the relationship as a whole rather than deciding who is right or wrong.

Same-week, evening, and weekend appointments are available.

Communication Difficulties

Many couples struggle not because they do not care about each other, but because conversations quickly turn into misunderstanding, defensiveness, conflict, or withdrawal.

Couples therapy can help partners communicate more clearly, listen with greater openness, express needs more effectively, and recognize patterns that make productive conversations difficult.

Conflict and Repeated Arguments

If you keep having the same argument, the problem may be less about the topic itself and more about the cycle underneath it.

One partner may pursue while the other withdraws. One may become critical while the other becomes defensive. Both may leave the interaction feeling unheard.

Therapy can help you understand what happens during conflict and develop healthier ways of responding before the cycle escalates.

Emotional Distance

Some couples stop arguing but still feel far apart.

You may feel more like roommates, co-parents, or people managing a household than romantic partners.

Couples therapy can help you explore what contributed to the distance and begin rebuilding emotional safety, connection, and closeness.

Infidelity, Affair Recovery, and Rebuilding Trust

Infidelity, secrecy, emotional affairs, broken agreements, or other forms of betrayal can deeply affect trust and emotional safety in a relationship.

Couples therapy can provide a structured space to understand what happened, process the impact on both partners, explore what repair may require, and decide how you want to move forward.

For couples who choose to rebuild, therapy may focus on restoring trust, improving communication, understanding the patterns surrounding the betrayal, and creating clearer expectations and boundaries for the relationship.

Premarital Counseling

Premarital counseling can help couples strengthen communication, clarify expectations, and build a stronger foundation before marriage.

Sessions may explore important topics such as finances, family relationships, boundaries, intimacy, parenting, values, roles and responsibilities, conflict styles, and how each partner hopes to navigate future challenges together.

You do not need to be experiencing serious relationship problems to benefit. Premarital counseling can help couples better understand one another, identify potential areas of conflict early, and develop healthier ways of communicating and solving problems together.

Parenting and Family Stress

Parenting can place tremendous pressure on a relationship.

Couples may disagree about discipline, responsibilities, boundaries, family roles, extended family, or how to support a child’s emotional or behavioral needs.

Therapy can help partners communicate more effectively and function as a more connected team.

When broader family relationships are part of the concern, Family Therapy or Family Systems Therapy may also be helpful.

Life Transitions

Major life changes can create strain even in strong relationships.

Moving, career changes, becoming parents, grief, health concerns, financial stress, caregiving, family conflict, or major decisions can change the way couples relate to one another.

Therapy can help partners navigate transitions with more communication, teamwork, and emotional support.

Our team includes therapists with different personalities, specialties, and approaches, making it easier to find someone who feels like the right fit for both partners.

Our care coordinator and clinical director can help match you based on your relationship concerns, the type of support you are looking for, therapist style, language, schedule, and payment needs.

Amanda Felix, AMFT

Amanda works with adults, couples, and families navigating relationship concerns, communication difficulties, family patterns, conflict, and life transitions. Her style is approachable, engaging, and grounded.

Ivana Gomez del Campo, AMFT

Ivana provides therapy in English and Spanish for teens, adults, couples, and families navigating relationship patterns, emotional stress, communication difficulties, and life transitions. Her style is warm, patient, and reflective.

Natalie Tergalstanian, AMFT, APCC

Natalie provides therapy in English and Armenian for adults and couples navigating anxiety, relationship concerns, emotional stress, and life transitions. Her style is calm, supportive, and gentle.

Starting couples therapy can feel vulnerable.

Many people worry that therapy will become another place to argue or that the therapist will decide which partner is right.

That is not the goal.

Your therapist works to understand both perspectives and the pattern happening between you.

Early sessions may explore:

• what brought you to therapy
• your relationship history
• current concerns and stressors
• how conflict typically unfolds
• what each partner experiences during difficult moments
• strengths in your relationship
• patterns you would like to change
• what each partner hopes will improve

From there, therapy may focus on communication, emotional awareness, conflict repair, boundaries, trust, problem-solving, and changing recurring relationship patterns.

At Aspire Counseling Group, couples therapy is collaborative, relationship-focused, and individualized.

The goal is not to determine who is right or wrong.

We work to understand the cycle that develops between partners and help both people recognize what they are experiencing, communicate more effectively, and develop healthier ways of responding to each other.

Depending on your needs, therapy may incorporate:

Attachment-Based Therapy

Attachment-based therapy can help couples understand needs for closeness, safety, reassurance, independence, and connection and how these needs may affect relationship patterns.

Family Systems Therapy

Family systems therapy considers how family history, roles, expectations, communication patterns, and broader relationships may influence the couple.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT can help partners recognize thoughts, assumptions, interpretations, and behaviors that contribute to conflict and practice healthier responses.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

DBT-informed skills may support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, communication, and the ability to respond more effectively during intense interactions.

Trauma-informed care may also be incorporated when past experiences are affecting trust, emotional safety, or current relationship patterns.

Our goal is not to fit every relationship into the same treatment model. We want to understand the history, strengths, challenges, personalities, and needs of the two people sitting in front of us.

Couples Therapy in Arcadia, CA and Online Across California

Aspire Counseling Group provides couples therapy, marriage counseling, and relationship counseling in Arcadia, CA, serving couples throughout the San Gabriel Valley, including Pasadena, San Marino, Monrovia, Sierra Madre, Temple City, and nearby communities.

Our Arcadia therapy office offers a comfortable, private setting for couples who want help improving communication, rebuilding connection, and changing difficult relationship patterns.

Online couples therapy is also available throughout California when clinically appropriate.

You do not need to know which therapist or treatment approach you need before contacting us.

Our care coordinator and clinical director can help match you with a therapist based on your concerns, preferred style and approach, language, schedule, and payment needs.

Getting Started Is Simple

1. Reach Out

Call, text, or request an appointment online.

2. We Help Match You With a Couples Therapist

Our care coordinator and clinical director will learn more about what you are looking for and help connect you with a therapist whose experience, personality, style, language, and availability fit your needs.

3. Begin Understanding the Pattern

Your therapist will take time to understand both partners’ perspectives, your relationship history, what is happening now, and what you would like to change.

Together, you can begin identifying recurring patterns and developing healthier ways of communicating, repairing, and reconnecting.

Same-week, evening, and weekend appointments are available.

Fees and Insurance for Couples Therapy

Couples therapy is typically private pay at Aspire Counseling Group.

Insurance generally requires treatment to be medically necessary and connected to an identified patient and diagnosis. That can shift the focus toward treating one person’s symptoms rather than the relationship itself.

Private-pay couples therapy allows the work to remain focused on communication, connection, trust, conflict, parenting, and the relationship as a whole.

Our team can explain fees and answer questions before your first appointment.

Learn more on our Fees and Insurance page.