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Couples Therapy

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Couples Therapy with a Nervous System Lens

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Reconnect from the inside out.

 

This is a space for couples who are ready to go beyond surface-level communication tools and step into deeper emotional safety, presence, and connection. Whether you're navigating conflict, disconnection, trauma, or the growing pains of change, this work helps you slow down and tune into yourselves—and each other—with more compassion and clarity.

 

Drawing from the Gottman Method and Somatic Attachment Therapy (Embody Lab), our work together will integrate  nervous system regulation, attachment awareness, and body-based practices that help you move from reaction to reconnection.

 

What to Expect

In our sessions, I’ll support you in:

 

  • Identifying and shifting the patterns and cycles that keep you stuck

  • Understanding your own and your partner’s attachment style, nervous system responses, and emotional needs

  • Learning practical communication tools to navigate conflict, repair effectively, and speak from a place of grounded truth

  • Processing and healing past relational wounds or betrayals that continue to impact your dynamic

  • Cultivating emotional attunement and co-regulation so you both feel safer, seen, and more deeply met

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The Heart of This Work

Couples therapy isn’t just about managing problems—it’s about building a conscious, connected partnership where both people feel safe to be fully themselves.

 

Through our work together, you’ll:

  • Learn how to navigate and resolve conflict with transparency and respect

  • Understand your own reactions, triggers, and communication style

  • Develop tools to repair disconnection and reconnect emotionally and physically

  • Practice being both vulnerable and strong, assertive and receptive

  • Build trust not self, each other, and in your shared capacity to face challenges as partners

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The Goal

To feel safe and seen in love.

 

That path includes healing past hurts, processing emotions, slowing down reactivity, and fostering curiosity instead of defensiveness. It’s about learning to see and receive one another, even when it challenges us; and, becoming more grounded and attuned in your relationship.

 

This container is ideal for couples who want more than communication scripts. They want to feel each other more deeply, heal together, and move toward a love that feels secure, conscious, and alive.

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I Help Couples Who Might Be Experiencing the Following:​​

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  • High conflict

  • Life transitions (e.g., grief, jobs, moving, marriage)

  • Anxious-avoidant dance (and all attachment dynamics)

  • Fertility, family planning, perinatal, pregnancy, postpartum

  • Birth trauma, loss, trying to conceive after loss 

  • Adjusting to parenthood

  • Ppen relationships 

  • Pre-marital couples' counseling (i.e., building a strong foundation before deepening the commitment)

  • Betrayal

  • Trauma  

  • Communication issues & conflict management 

  • Barriers to intimacy (sexual, emotional, physical) 

  • Loss of connection

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It is important to note that relationships are extremely nuanced and ever-evolving. Many of these issues can co-occur or occur at different times throughout your relationship. Thus, my work with couples is not limited to these areas. 

Couples Therapy

$195

  • 60

$ 290

  • 90 minute session

Arielle Manganiello, PhD, LPC, LPCC

California | Pennsylvania

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Holistic Nutrition Practitioner

arielle@ariellemanganiellotherapy.com | (619) 839 - 9422

169 Saxony Road, Encinitas, 92024 

12625 High Bluff Drive, San Diego, 92130

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