MindBalance Mental Health Care
Couples Therapy in Minneapolis
Compassionate support for the relationships you want to build together. In-person and online couples therapy in Minneapolis and across Minnesota.
Every Relationship Has Hard Seasons
You don't have to be in crisis to benefit from couples therapy. Some partners come to us feeling stuck in the same arguments, struggling to reconnect after a major life change, navigating pain points such as a breach of trust, growing emotional distance, or the slow erosion of feeling seen by each other.
Whatever brought you here, you're not alone. And it doesn't mean something is fundamentally broken.
At MindBalance Mental Health Care, we offer couples therapy that centers on honesty, care, and your shared values. When we say couples therapy, we mean relationship therapy where every relationship is welcome. Two people, three people, romantic partners, close friends, roommates, co-parents, chosen family — if there's a relationship you care about and want to tend to, this work is for you. Your relationships don't have to fit a particular definition to get started in relationship counseling. Whoever you are and however you love, you'll be met here with care and without judgment — and that commitment to care extends to everyone involved.
Our Holistic Approach to Couples Therapy
We take a relational and attachment-informed approach to relationship therapy work. That means we pay attention to the patterns underneath the conflict - the bids for connection that go unanswered, the protective habits that made sense once but now push you apart, and the unspoken needs that often sit at the heart of recurring arguments.
We integrate:
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to identify and shift negative cycles, deepen emotional safety, and strengthen secure attachment between partners.
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Gottman Method-informed skills for improving communication, managing conflict constructively, and rebuilding friendship and trust.
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Attachment-based exploration to help partners understand how early relationship experience may be shaping present-day dynamics.
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Narrative and values-centered work to help you reconnect with who you are individually and what you're building together.
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Trauma-informed care for relationships where one or both partners have experienced trauma that affects intimacy, trust, or communication.
Whatever your relationship looks like, you belong here - and you'll be met with care exactly as you are.
What Couples Therapy Can Help With
Communication and Conflict
Trust and Repair
Ethical Non-Monogamy and Relationship Structure
Intimacy and Emotional Safety
Life Transitions
Disconnection and Drift
People come to couples therapy for all kinds of reasons. You might recognize yourself in some of these.
Couples therapy isn't just about saving a relationship. Sometimes it's about ending one with care and mutual respect, or navigating a major change together.
Whatever your goals, we'll meet you there.
About Our Couples Therapist
Meet Beatriz
She is an Associate Therapist (licensed and practicing under clinical supervision) and brings fresh perspective and ongoing support to her work. Your sessions will be informed not just by one clinician's knowledge, but by a collaborative care model.
She offers sessions in Spanish and English.
Therapy That Meets You Where You Are
Choose what fits your needs
In-Person Couples Therapy
Minneapolis Office
Experience therapy in a comfortable, grounded space.
Online Couples Therapy Across Minnesota
Access private, convenient therapy sessions from home.