Marriage and Family Therapy
When you love each other, but something isn’t working.
The same fights. More distance. Less connection. Broken trust.
Lizzie Stevenson, MS, LMFT, helps couples slow down, understand what’s happening between them, and find their way forward together.
Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling in Denver
You can love each other deeply and still feel disconnected, frustrated, or exhausted.
Maybe you keep having the same fight. One of you pushes to talk while the other shuts down. Trust has been broken, resentment has built, or you simply don't know how to get back to each other.
Couples therapy helps us slow things down and understand what is actually happening between you-not just what you're fighting about.
When You Keep Having the Same Fight
Many couples get caught in a cycle where one partner reaches for connection and the other pulls away. The harder one pushes, the more the other retreats.
Eventually, both people start believing their partner is the problem.
Couples therapy helps us see the cycle as the problem.
We slow it down, understand what's underneath it, and work toward helping you feel safer, more understood, and more connected.
Affair Recovery & Betrayal Trauma
An affair or significant betrayal can change the emotional foundation of a relationship.
One partner may experience anger, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, grief, or an overwhelming need for answers. The other may feel shame, defensiveness, fear, or uncertainty about how to repair the damage.
The work focuses on understanding what happened, addressing the hurt, rebuilding emotional safety, and determining what each partner needs moving forward.
Lizzie and Elon's Approach
Lizzie is warm, direct, and engaged in the room. Elon's diverse background in law, counseling, and therapy, give him a multi-lens perspective on unique situations.
Lizzie and Elon integrate EFT, Gottman Method principles, IFS, attachment and family systems, and trauma-informed care to help couples understand and change the patterns keeping them stuck.
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Lizzie Stevenson, MS, LMFT
Lizzie Stevenson is a therapist and discernment counselor who works with couples, individuals, and families who feel stuck in painful relational patterns, often exhausted from the same fight over and over and struggling to feel close, safe, or truly understood. Many of her clients deeply love their partners and families but find themselves caught in cycles of criticism, withdrawal, anxiety, or emotional distance.
Using an attachment-based and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach, Lizzie helps couples slow down reactive cycles and understand the deeper emotions underneath them, moving toward greater emotional safety and secure connection. She also offers Discernment Counseling for couples uncertain about their future, and has extensive experience with affair recovery, trust ruptures, divorce transitions, co-parenting stress, and blended family dynamics.
Lizzie holds a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy and brings more than 20 years of clinical experience, including private practice, community mental health, and university teaching in child development. Her warm, attuned, and direct style helps clients experience real shifts in how they connect with themselves and the people they love.
Elon Slutsky, MA, JD, LPCC
Elon Slutsky is a therapist who works with couples and individuals navigating relationship difficulties, life transitions, anxiety, depression, and the pressures that can accompany demanding professional and personal lives. With couples, he often works with partners who care deeply about one another and are genuinely trying, but find that attempts to connect repeatedly turn into criticism, withdrawal, defensiveness, or disappointment.
Drawing primarily from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Schema Therapy, and mindfulness-based approaches, Elon helps clients slow down recurring patterns and understand what is happening underneath them. In couples work, sessions are active and relational: partners practice communicating directly with one another, with Elon helping them recognize the emotions, needs, and protective strategies that can make connection difficult. His individual work similarly combines insight with experiential approaches to help clients understand established patterns and make deliberate changes aligned with their values.
Before becoming a therapist, Elon practiced law at large national firms and taught law, experience that particularly informs his work with attorneys, physicians, academics, executives, and other high-achieving professionals. He earned his counseling degree from Northwestern University, his J.D. from Cornell Law School, and his undergraduate degree from Amherst College. He was also a Fulbright Fellow conducting research related to psychotherapy and well-being. Elon is a trained mediator and has completed specialized training in collaborative divorce through Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals.