Couples and Family Trauma Therapy

Couples and Family Therapy

Trauma doesn’t only affect individuals — it impacts the people closest to them. When someone experiences trauma, it can alter how they connect, communicate, and express love. Partners and family members may start to feel distant, misunderstood, or caught in patterns that seem impossible to change.

At the Utah Center for Trauma Recovery, we specialize in helping couples and families heal together. Our trauma-informed relationship therapy focuses on restoring safety, rebuilding trust, and creating deeper emotional connection. Whether trauma has come from infidelity, abuse, loss, or years of unspoken pain, we guide you through the process of repairing and strengthening your relationships.

Why It Matters

When one person carries trauma, the entire relationship system feels it.

Many couples and families we see struggle with:

  • Constant conflict or emotional disconnection

  • Trust issues or communication breakdowns

  • The same arguments repeating with no resolution

  • Emotional numbness or feeling “roommates” instead of partners

  • Difficulty feeling close, safe, or understood

  • Lingering pain from betrayal, loss, or childhood trauma

These challenges often aren’t about personality differences — they’re trauma responses. When trauma shapes the nervous system, it changes how people react to stress, emotion, and connection. Until those wounds are addressed, real intimacy and peace remain out of reach.

Healing together restores not only individual well-being but also the love, safety, and unity that trauma once disrupted.

Our Approach

We use trauma-informed, evidence-based methods that help partners and families move from survival to connection. Every session is designed to build emotional safety first — because safety is the foundation of healing.

Our approach includes:

  • EMDR for couples and families to process shared or individual trauma and reduce emotional reactivity.

  • Attachment and relationship repair work to rebuild trust, safety, and emotional intimacy.

  • Somatic and nervous system regulation tools to help each person manage triggers and respond calmly.

  • Communication and empathy training that helps families speak, listen, and understand one another with compassion.

We don’t focus on blame — we focus on understanding. You’ll learn how trauma has shaped each person’s coping patterns and how to replace those with new patterns of connection and stability.

Why Choose the Utah Center for Trauma Recovery

Our therapists are trauma experts — not general couples counselors. We specialize in understanding how trauma affects relationships at the deepest levels, and we tailor every plan to the specific needs of the individuals and systems involved.

Here’s what makes us different:

  • Every clinician is trained or certified in EMDR, ensuring trauma is treated at the root, not just discussed.

  • We focus on healing both the individual and the relationship, so progress lasts.

  • We provide high-touch, personalized care for clients who value meaningful results and efficient change.

We don’t just teach communication skills — we help you and your loved ones build a new foundation of emotional safety, connection, and resilience that extends far beyond therapy.

Who This Is For

  • Couples recovering from infidelity, betrayal, or broken trust

  • Families rebuilding connection after trauma, loss, or conflict

  • Partners of individuals with PTSD or C-PTSD

  • Parents wanting to repair emotional distance with adult children

  • Anyone ready to create a relationship built on understanding, safety, and love

Begin Healing Together

You don’t have to keep repeating the same painful patterns. Healing is possible — and when it happens together, the results are powerful.

Rebuild safety. Restore connection. Renew love.
Contact the Utah Center for Trauma Recovery today to begin couples or family trauma therapy.