Attachment-Based • Somatic • Emotionally Grounded
🌈 Inclusive Care for All Couples
We welcome married and unmarried couples, LGBTQ+ and same-sex partners, queer couples, TGNC partners, and nontraditional family structures.
Your relationship is honored and supported here.
Rebuilding Connection, Trust & Intimacy
A relationship is like a dance. There are moments of closeness and ease, and moments when partners step on each other’s toes, lose the rhythm, or pull away altogether. Over time, couples can find themselves stuck—repeating the same arguments, feeling disconnected, or living more like roommates than partners.
Many couples seek marriage counseling or couples counseling when communication breaks down, trust has been shaken, intimacy has faded, or conflict feels constant and exhausting. Others come during periods of transition or crisis, unsure how to reconnect or move forward together.
Why Couples Get Stuck (It’s Not Just Communication)
Most couples don’t struggle because they “don’t know what to say.”
They struggle because communication is not just verbal.
Much of what happens between partners occurs beneath the surface—in tone, timing, body language, emotional reactions, and nervous-system responses shaped by attachment and past experiences. When stress is high, these non-verbal patterns can override good intentions and lead to cycles of threat, withdrawal, or shutdown. Also, these patterns easily create misunderstanding.
Our work focuses on helping couples understand and change these underlying dynamics, not just the words being exchanged.
Our Approach: Attachment-Based & Somatic Marriage Counseling
Marriage counseling at Dance of Change is grounded in attachment theory, somatic therapy, expressive-arts-informed practices, and relational neuroscience.
Together, we slow things down so both partners can:
- Understand what is REALLY happening in moments of conflict or distance
- Become more aware of internal emotional and physiological responses
- Interrupt patterns that keep the relationship stuck
- Learn to re-engage with safety, clarity, and compassion
Our work supports the relationship as a living system—helping couples restore safety, understanding, and connection.
How Marriage Counseling Can Help
Couples commonly seek support to:
- Improve communication (verbal + nonverbal)
- Repair emotional injuries and rebuild trust
- Navigate conflict without escalation or withdrawal
- Rebuild intimacy and closeness
- Heal attachment wounds and relational patterns
- Strengthen emotional regulation and responsiveness
- Recover from major transitions, stress, or disconnection
The Dance of Change Method: A Five-Step Process
Step 1 — Supporting a Strong Vision for the Future
All couples need to know where they are going. This includes using strengths and challenges you have faced so far to create strong agreement. These help you get clear on the kind of marriage or committed relationship you want to co-create together.
Step 2 — Identifying Your Paths
You will explore the kind of partner you aspire to be and identify the strengths, challenges, and relational patterns each of you brings into the relationship.
Step 3 — Managing Stress & Conflict
Stress is inevitable in life and relationships. We look closely at how your unique stress physiology interacts with your partner’s.
You will learn to:
- Recognize when either partner is “going over threshold”
- Understand your own window of tolerance
- Communicate effectively in critical moments
- Navigate conflict with greater emotional safety
This somatic-awareness work is often the missing link in traditional couples therapy.
Step 4 — Communication, Nonverbal Repair & Connection
We look at how you each prefer to be loved and strengthen both verbal and nonverbal communication.
This may include:
- Body-centered psychotherapy techniques
- Interrupting habitual conflict patterns
- Practicing the “magic ratio” of positive-to-negative interactions
- Real-time coaching so you know when you’re on the right track
Step 5 — Fortifying Long-Term Resilience
A healthy marriage or partnership is like a thriving ecosystem.
Together, we review the skills you’ve built, the commitments you’ve made, and your relational rhythms so you can sustain growth over time.
Couples Counseling in St. Louis
Couples counseling is not about scripts, quick fixes, or assigning blame.
It is a collaborative process that helps partners understand their patterns, strengthen emotional awareness, and practice new ways of relating—especially during moments of stress.
With commitment and support, couples can interrupt old cycles and create a relationship that feels more secure, connected, and alive.
Couples Therapy (Attachment, Somatic & Expressive Arts)
Couples therapy focuses more deeply on nervous system responses, attachment history, emotional wounds, and unconscious relational patterns.
This is where expressive-arts-informed work, somatic tracking, and deeper attachment repair happen.
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Ready to Begin?
If you’re seeking marriage counseling, couples therapy, or couples counseling in St. Louis, we’re here to help you restore safety, clarity, trust, and connection.
Email: admin@danceofchange.com
Call/Text: (314) 827-5448
Book an appointment or consultation to get started.