After Infidelity or Betrayal
Healing from an affair or broken trust is possible. Dr. Miller guides couples through the painful but restorative work of understanding what happened, rebuilding safety, and creating a stronger, more honest connection.
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EFT-Certified Couples Therapy
Couples Therapy & Relational Healing
EFT-certified, evidence-based therapy for couples caught in painful cycles — distance after betrayal, intimacy lost to stress, or the slow drift that high-pressure lives can create. Restoring secure connection and a genuine sense of 'us' in Colorado Springs and via telehealth.
EFT
Certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy
96+
Hours of EFT externship & core skills training
$190
Per couples session
15 min
Free initial phone consultation
Even strong relationships get wounded — by betrayal, by stress, by the slow accumulation of missed moments, or simply by the demands of a high-pressure life. Dr. Miller helps couples step out of the negative cycles that keep them stuck and rebuild the secure, lasting connection underneath. The work is warm, structured, and grounded in the most researched model of couples therapy available.
You're Not Alone in This
When Couples Come to See Dr. Miller
Caught in a Negative Cycle
The same fight, over and over — pursue and withdraw, criticize and defend. EFT helps couples see the cycle as the enemy, not each other, and step out of it together.
Distance & Lost Intimacy
When stress, parenting, shift work, or simply time have created distance and roommates-instead-of-partners, therapy rebuilds emotional and physical intimacy.
High-Stress Relationships
First responder, military, and high-pressure professional couples face unique strain — vicarious trauma, hypervigilance, and emotional numbing carried home from the job. Specialized support helps the relationship survive and thrive.
Communication Breakdown
When every conversation becomes a conflict or silence, therapy restores the ability to hear and be heard — using research-backed tools for communication, conflict, and friendship.
At a Crossroads
Considering separation, or simply unsure whether to stay. Dr. Miller offers a clear-eyed, compassionate space to discern the path forward — together or apart.
The Most Researched Model in the World
The EFT Approach
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is the most empirically validated model of couples therapy in the world. Rather than teaching communication tricks, EFT helps partners identify the negative cycle that traps them, access the deeper emotions beneath the conflict, and create new, secure patterns of connection. Dr. Miller completed full externship and core skills training (96+ hours) through the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).
See the Cycle
Identify the repeating pattern — not 'who's right' — that keeps you both stuck and disconnected.
Access Deeper Emotion
Move beneath anger and withdrawal to the vulnerability, fear, and longing that drive the cycle.
Build New Bonds
Create secure, accessible, responsive interactions that become the new foundation of the relationship.
Integrated Care
Additional Modalities Integrated Into Couples Work
Attachment-Based Therapy
Rooted in attachment science — the understanding that we are wired for connection and that secure bonds are healable at any stage of life.
Gottman Principles
Research-backed tools for communication, conflict management, friendship, and shared meaning developed from decades of couples research.
Trauma-Informed Care
When individual trauma — past or occupational — is driving the relationship distress, EMDR and AEDP-informed work addresses it directly.
The Process
What to Expect
Free 15-Minute Consultation
A brief, no-cost phone call to share what's bringing you in and make sure Dr. Miller is the right fit for your relationship.
First Sessions
Dr. Miller meets with you together and individually to understand your story, your cycle, and your goals — at a pace that feels safe.
The Work
Structured EFT sessions focused on stepping out of your negative cycle and building new, secure patterns of connection — typically weekly or biweekly.
Lasting Connection
As secure attachment grows, sessions space out. Many couples complete EFT in 8–20 sessions and leave with tools that last.
Couples therapy sessions: $190 per session. Out-of-network provider — superbills provided for insurance reimbursement. HSA/FSA accepted.
Reconnection is possible.
The first step is a free, no-pressure 15-minute phone call. Together you'll see whether Dr. Miller is the right fit for your relationship.