COUPLES COUNSELING

Couples Counseling in Indianapolis & virtually throughout Indiana

Support for Relationships Navigating Stress, Trauma, and Change

Couples often seek counseling when communication feels stuck, conflict repeats, or connection feels harder to reach. Relationship therapy at Counseling at The Green House offers a supportive, thoughtful space to understand patterns, strengthen connection, and build healthier ways of communicating. We work with couples at all stages of relationship and life, including those navigating intercultural relationships, trauma histories, major transitions, and adoption and parenting stress.

Common Reasons for Couples Counseling

• Criticism, Contempt, Stonewalling, or Defensiveness

• Communication challenges, including difficulty expressing needs or feeling heard

• Recurring conflict or feeling that disagreements are never fully resolved

• Conflict over major issues such as parenting, finances, or household responsibilities

• Changes in intimacy, sexual relationship, or physical affection

• Trust or fidelity concerns, including emotional or sexual affairs

• Grief, trauma, or life stressors such as job changes, moves, or shifts in family dynamics

• Extended family or in-law conflicts

• Feeling disconnected or more like roommates than partners

• Considering separation, divorce, or evaluating the future of the relationship

Our Approach to Couples Counseling

Our clinicians take a trauma-informed, attachment-focused approach to couples therapy. Rather than focusing on blame or “who is right,” we help couples understand how nervous system responses, unmet attachment needs, and past experiences influence communication, conflict, and emotional connection. Our work emphasizes curiosity and collaboration, helping couples find connecting, while building more effective ways of relating.

Couples counseling may focus on:

• Improving communication and emotional safety

• Understanding recurring conflict patterns

• Rebuilding trust after ruptures

• Navigating life transitions or stressors

• Strengthening connection and intimacy

• Supporting couples impacted by trauma or adoption-related experiences

We tailor our approach to each couple, drawing from evidence-based practices and relational neuroscience.

Couples Counseling & Adoption

Many couples come to therapy when adoption is part of their story—whether through personal experience as an adoptee, birth parent, or adoptive parent, including foster care, international adoption, and private domestic adoption. These experiences can shape identity, attachment, grief, and stress in ways that affect relationships.

Our clinicians have specialized training in adoption-competent therapy and understand how adoption-related experiences may show up in couple dynamics without framing those experiences as pathology. We hold space for complexity, loss, resilience, and growth.
 

Brainspotting for Couples

Counseling at The Green House offers Brainspotting as part of couples counseling when appropriate. Brainspotting is a trauma-informed therapeutic modality that helps access and process experiences held in the nervous system.

In couples work, Brainspotting may support:

• Processing relational trauma or attachment wounds

• Reducing emotional reactivity

• Increasing capacity for presence and connection

• Supporting individual healing that strengthens the relationship

Brainspotting is always used thoughtfully and collaboratively, with clear consent and pacing that respects both partners.
 

Who We Work With

We provide couples counseling for:

• Couples seeking marriage counseling

• Long-term partners experiencing disconnection or conflict

• Couples impacted by trauma or chronic stress

• Adult adoptees and their partners

• Adoptive parents and couples navigating adoption-related challenges

• Couples preparing for major transitions or decisions

We welcome all couples and are committed to inclusive, affirming care.
 

What to Expect

Our licensed clinicians bring years of experience supporting couples and families, including adoption-impacted clients. Each team member holds advanced training in Brainspotting, trauma-informed therapy, and adoption-competent care. Couples counseling sessions are collaborative and paced to support safety and understanding. Our goal is not to “fix” one partner, but to help couples:

• Understand what is happening beneath conflict

• Strengthen communication and emotional attunement

• Build more secure and supportive relational patterns
   

Couples Counseling in Indianapolis

Counseling at The Green House is located in Indianapolis and serves couples throughout the area. We also offer telehealth options throughout the state of Indiana.​​​​​

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