Relationship Counseling & Sex Therapy at Revive Relationship Counseling
At Revive Relationship Counseling, I help couples understand what keeps happening between them so they can respond differently and build stronger emotional and sexual connection.
In-person couples and sex therapy in Centennial, Colorado, serving the Denver metro area, and online throughout Colorado, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Idaho.
Relationship Counseling and Sex Therapy to Help You Feel Close Again
At some point you started wondering: Is this just how relationships end up? Is this normal? You love each other, and there may be a lot about your relationship that works. But somehow, you can still feel lonely inside it.
Maybe you miss feeling like your partner really knows you. Maybe you miss being wanted, or wanting them. You may lie next to each other at night and wonder how you can share so much of a life and still feel this far apart.
At Revive Relationship Counseling, I help couples understand what keeps happening between them so they can stop reacting in the same ways and create more of the emotional and sexual connection they both want.
When Your Relationship Starts Feeling More Like Roommates Than A Partnership
You manage schedules. You handle responsibilities. You raise kids, work demanding jobs, make decisions, and keep your life moving. From the outside, your relationship may look pretty good. And honestly, there may be a lot about it that is good.
But somewhere along the way, it became harder to reach each other. Conversations either escalate or you feel the weight of what ISN'T being said. Sex may feel awkward, pressured, routine, or increasingly absent. You may find yourselves acting more like co-managers of a very busy life than two people who genuinely enjoy being together.
And that's where the question starts creeping in: How did we get here, and can we actually revive our relationship?
Why Do We Keep Getting Stuck in the Same Patterns?
Relationships can become strained for all kinds of reasons. Stress, life transitions, family patterns, past experiences, or hurts within the relationship can all affect how you experience one another. And when couples get stuck, each person's reaction to the other can unintentionally keep the interaction going.
I don't see either partner as the problem. In couples therapy, we'll pay attention to what happens between you: what each of you experiences in those moments, how you react to one another, and what keeps pulling you back into the same interaction.
The goal isn't to eliminate your differences. It's to help you understand them, become less reactive, and respond to each other in ways that strengthen your friendship, emotional connection, and sexual relationship.
Hi I’m Marina!
Couples Therapist & AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
I’m Marina Stanton, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and Gottman Method Level 3 Trained therapist. I specialize in helping couples understand what is getting in the way of them feeling close and connected, and helping them improve their intimacy, both their friendship and their sexual connection.
I take an active, practical approach to couples therapy. I’m not the kind of therapist who will just sit back, nod, and tell you to communicate better. We’ll look at what happens when you get stuck, what each of you brings into those moments, and how you can respond differently to one another.
My work draws from the Gottman Method and the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, along with specialized training in sex therapy. This allows us to work with communication, conflict, friendship, emotional connection, and sexual intimacy while also making room for individual differences, past experiences, and trauma that may be affecting your relationship.
I also work with many couples from religious and values-based backgrounds. I believe therapy can make room for honest conversations about sex, intimacy, and relationships without asking you to abandon the values that matter to you.
Relationship Counseling & Sex Therapy Services
Couples Counseling
Sex Therapy
Premarital Counseling
Speaking Engagements
What You Can Expect from Relationship Counseling and Sex Therapy at Revive
Couples therapy with me is active, honest, and focused on helping you understand what happens between you, not deciding which one of you is the problem. Here’s what that looks like in the room.
I’ll Pay Attention to What Happens Between You
I don’t see either partner as the problem. I’m interested in what happens between you when you disagree, feel hurt, want different things, or don’t feel understood. We’ll slow those interactions down, understand how each of you is reacting to the other, and practice responding differently instead of repeating the same patterns.
We’ll Actually Talk About Sex
Sex doesn’t get treated like an awkward side topic here. We can talk openly about desire differences, pleasure, initiation, rejection, pressure, boundaries, sexual shame, and what sex has come to mean in your relationship. The goal isn’t simply to have more sex. It’s to create a sexual relationship where both of you have room for choice, pleasure, honesty, and connection.
Your Values Have a Place Here
Many of my clients come from religious, conservative, or values-based backgrounds and are trying to sort through what they genuinely believe alongside messages they may have inherited about marriage, gender, sexuality, or duty. Therapy isn’t about telling you what your values should be. We can examine what’s working, question what isn't, and make room for both your values and a healthier relationship with sexuality.
I’m Going to Be an Active Therapist
I won't just sit back and watch you have the same argument you have at home. I’ll interrupt when something important is happening, teach you what I’m seeing, ask questions, and sometimes challenge both of you. I use a lot of education, probably a few too many metaphors, and I want you to understand why we're doing something, not just leave with another communication technique to try.
Where can we work together?
I work with couples online throughout Colorado, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Idaho, with in-person sessions available in Centennial, Colorado. Select your state below to learn more about working together.
Online and In-Person Relationship Counseling Services
I offer in-person couples counseling and sex therapy in Centennial, Colorado, as well as secure online therapy throughout Colorado, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Idaho.
In-Person Couples Counseling & Sex Therapy in Centennial
My Centennial office is conveniently located near I-25 and C-470, making it accessible from Denver, Littleton, Parker, Lone Tree, and surrounding communities.
The office offers plenty of parking, a comfortable waiting area, and a private space for the conversations that can be difficult to have at home.
Online Couples Counseling & Sex Therapy
I also offer secure, HIPAA-compliant online therapy for couples throughout Colorado, Texas, Utah, Washington and Idaho. Online sessions can be especially helpful when you're juggling demanding careers, parenting, or simply prefer having these conversations from your own space.
Ready to Reconnect?
Let’s talk.
If you love each other but know something in your relationship could be better, you don’t have to figure out how to change it on your own.
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation to see if I’m a good fit. We’ll talk about what’s happening in your relationship, what you’re hoping will be different, and whether I’m the right therapist to help you get there.
Frequently Asked Questions About Couples Counseling & Sex Therapy
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Relationship counseling, sometimes called couples counseling or couples therapy, helps you understand what is happening between you when you get stuck. I don’t see either partner as the problem. Instead, we look at the ways you react to one another when you feel hurt, misunderstood, lonely, pressured, rejected, or overwhelmed.
We’ll slow those interactions down, understand what each of you brings into them, and practice responding differently. That might mean learning to handle conflict more effectively, rebuilding friendship and trust, navigating differences without trying to change each other, or addressing emotional and sexual disconnection. The goal isn’t to make you the same. It’s to help you build a relationship where there is room for both of you.
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You don't have to wait until your relationship is falling apart.
You might love each other and still feel lonely. Maybe you're having the same argument over and over, avoiding things because talking never seems to go well, functioning more like co-managers than partners, or wondering where your friendship or sex life went. You may even have a pretty good relationship and simply know that something could be better.
If you're asking yourselves, Is this just how relationships end up? or Can this actually be different?, couples counseling can give you a place to understand what's happening and figure out what you want to create instead.
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I’m Marina Stanton, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and Gottman Method Level 3 Trained therapist. My work also draws from the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy and my training as a systemic therapist.
That means I’m paying attention to more than whether you're communicating “correctly.” I want to understand what happens between you, what each of you brings into those moments, and why you keep getting stuck there. We can work directly with conflict, friendship, trust, emotional connection, desire, pleasure, sexual concerns, values, past experiences, and trauma when those things are affecting your relationship.
I’m also an active therapist. I’ll interrupt when something important is happening, ask questions, teach you what I’m seeing, and sometimes challenge both of you. I want you talking to each other, not just telling me about your relationship.
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Revive Relationship Counseling is my private practice. I’m Marina Stanton, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and Gottman Method Level 3 Trained therapist. I’m licensed to provide therapy in Colorado, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Idaho. My work with couples also draws from the Developmental Model of Couples Therapy, which looks at both what happens between partners and the individual differences each person brings into the relationship.
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Yes. Sex isn't an awkward side topic here. I'm an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and sexual concerns can be addressed directly as part of our couples work.
Couples come to sex therapy for all kinds of reasons, including desire differences, difficulty initiating or talking about sex, pressure and rejection cycles, sexual pain, shame, difficulty experiencing pleasure or orgasm, changes in attraction or arousal, religious or cultural messages about sexuality, or simply feeling like sex has become another chore.
The goal isn't automatically to have more sex. I want both partners to have room for honesty, choice, pleasure, and connection. Sometimes that also means broadening your definition of sex and discovering forms of intimacy and pleasure that actually feel good to both of you.
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Not at all. In fact, many couples come to sex therapy because one or both partners aren't particularly interested in sex right now.
You might feel burned out, pressured, disconnected from your body, unsure what you enjoy, or tired of having sex that feels more like something you're managing than something you actually want. I don't see the lower-desire partner as the problem, and sex therapy isn't about convincing one person to have more sex to keep the other person happy.
What I hope we can build instead is a sexual relationship where both of you are responsible for your own sexuality and both of you have genuine freedom to choose. That includes being able to say yes, no, or this is what sounds good to me tonight without having to manage your partner's emotions.
And sex doesn't have to mean intercourse. It can include making out, touching, naked cuddling, flirting, self-stimulation within your own values and relationship agreements, or other ways of experiencing pleasure and connection together. Sometimes taking intercourse and orgasm off center stage creates a lot more room to discover what you actually want.
The important distinction for me isn't whether you want sex right now. It's whether there is some openness to discovering what a sexual relationship that belongs to you, rather than one built around pressure, obligation, or someone else's expectations, could look like.
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Yes. I work with many couples from religious, Christian, conservative, and values-based backgrounds, including Latter-day Saint couples. You don't have to leave your beliefs at the door to talk honestly about your relationship or sexuality. Part of our work may be sorting through which beliefs and values genuinely belong to you and which messages you've inherited about marriage, gender, sex, pleasure, or duty. My job isn't to tell you what your values should be. It's to help you build a relationship and sexual life that works for both of you and is consistent with the values you choose.
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I don't see either one of you as the problem, but that doesn't mean I'll pretend everything either of you does is equally helpful.
My job is to pay attention to what happens between you and help both of you recognize how you contribute to the interaction that keeps you stuck. If I see criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling, pressure, shutting down, or another behavior that is hurting your relationship, I may interrupt it. I can tolerate anger and disagreement. You don't have to be perfectly calm in my office. But I will help you learn how to express what is true for you without being destructive to each other.
The goal isn't to determine who's right. It's to help each of you become more honest about your own experience, understand your partner more clearly, and learn to respond instead of react when you are different from one another.
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Yes. I offer in-person couples counseling and sex therapy in Centennial, Colorado, serving the Denver metro area. My office is conveniently located near I-25 and C-470 and is accessible from Denver, Littleton, Lone Tree, Parker, Highlands Ranch, and surrounding communities.
The office has plenty of parking, a comfortable waiting area, and a private therapy room where you can have conversations that may be difficult to have at home.
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Yes. I offer online couples counseling and sex therapy throughout Colorado, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Idaho, where I am licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist.
Online therapy can be especially helpful when you're balancing demanding careers, parenting, travel, or simply prefer having these conversations from your own space. We can work on the same relationship, communication, and sexual concerns online that we would address together in my Centennial office.
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The first step is a free 15-minute consultation. We'll talk briefly about what's happening in your relationship, what you're hoping will be different, and what you're looking for from therapy.
The consultation also gives us a chance to talk about fit. I know I'm not the right therapist for every couple, and that's okay. My goal is to help you find the kind of support you're looking for, whether that's with me or someone else.
If we decide to work together, I offer in-person couples counseling and sex therapy in Centennial, Colorado, as well as online therapy throughout Colorado, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Idaho,