As a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist for couples, individuals, and families, I have specialized experience and advanced training for healing affairs and other relationship trauma, creating deeper emotional connection, improving communication, and decreasing unhealthy conflict. I am passionately LGBTQIA+ affirming. I am also a AAMFT Approved Supervisor and Certified Emotionally-Focused Therapy Supervisor.

Counseling With Emma

Every person in the world wants connection, especially to their most important people.

Whether you are looking to start therapy as a couple, an individual, or as a family, I recognize that it is painful to not know how to reconnect with those you love.

I can help you improve your relationships, heal from the past, and create a healthier and more hopeful future. It makes me so happy to see my clients’ emotional and mental health improve, and our relationships play such a tremendous role in our well-being.

I have always been interested in what makes a good relationship stick. I’ve dedicated my professional career to figuring out why people get stuck in negative patterns internally and with their loved ones so I can help my clients create more satisfying relationships with their emotions and with others.

Words That Describe My Counseling Style

Who Are My Clients?

I enjoy working with a variety of clients of diverse backgrounds and situations! I consider myself to be competent in helping couples, individuals, and families. I am LGBTQIA+ affirming.

Couples Counseling

Maintaining a healthy relationship with anyone takes effort. However, the rewards of cultivating a healthier, closer romantic relationship are worth the time and investment!

Whether your relationship is in its early stages or it is well-established, I am a firm believer that coming to couples counseling is beneficial for everyone. I have experience working with couples who are:

• Working through big hurts, like affairs
• Wanting to enhance a good relationship to make it great
• Unhappy in their relationship and don’t want to settle any more
• Hoping to increase friendship, romance, or sexual intimacy
• Premarital Couples who want to form an incredibly strong foundation
• Deciding if they want to stay together, or if the relationship can be saved
• Facing a significant relationship obstacle, such trauma or loss

Family Therapy

Families have so many dynamics and personalities – it can be hard to decipher them all when you are in the middle of it! That is why family therapy can be incredibly beneficial.

Whether your family involves two people or ten people, family therapy can help! I am a Certified Therapist and Supervisor in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, and I have experience working with families who are:

• Facing new challenges, such as divorce or trauma
• Looking to reconnect with each other in newer, healthier ways
• Wanting to feel closer and increase healthy communication
• Needing to re-establish boundaries and rules
• Brand new and have no idea what they are doing!

Individual Therapy

Experiencing therapy as an individual can be so beneficial to improving your well-being and life satisfaction. I love to work with individuals who want to strengthen their emotional health, their relationships, or just unpack and process their world. As a trained Emotionally Focused Individual Therapist (EFIT), I also help people heal from traumatic experiences or difficult childhoods to overcome those painful experiences and feel empowered and liberated from the negative impacts.

If you are in a relationship where your partner is unable to come to therapy or doesn’t want to come to therapy, talking to a therapist can still help. It is important to me to just join my individual clients in their experience and help them work through their own stuck spots. I recognize how important attachment is in everyone’s life – at all stages.

Even if you are not in a romantic relationship but are still looking for someone to talk to about other emotional, relational, or family issues, I would love to work with you. Most people would be surprised about how much they can learn about themselves just from talking to a therapist about the things that matter most to you. There’s a lot of power in having a place to safely feel and be seen.

Child and Teen Counseling

If you are considering bringing your child to therapy, I’m a firm believer that a child or teen is best supported by working with the whole system. Some parents considering bringing their child into therapy if he or she is:

• Acting out
• Withdrawing or not acting like themselves
• Experiencing new stressors or changes such as divorce, new school, or new sibling
• Refusing to talk to anyone at home
• Think or know that they experienced trauma

These are fantastic reasons to reach out to a therapist. When I work with children or teens, it’s important to me that I work with the family system. Children’s behavior always makes sense. I can help bridge the gap to assist you in better understanding and helping your child.

I am also happy to see parents who are looking for new or better ways to connect with and parent their children.

Clinical Supervision or EFT Consultation

I love to help fellow therapists or therapists-in-training hone their skills, earn their LMFT or LPC license, earn EFT Certification, or all the above. You can learn more about supervision with me here.

Attachment-Based & Emotionally Focused Therapy

As a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and Supervisor, I know how to help you identify the negative patterns causing distress and how to help you learn new ways of communicating and feeling that bring closeness and intimacy.

For our entire life, we have a wired-in need to feel secure in our most important relationships. I can help you make sense of the things you do to cope with not feeling secure that may not always work out the way you want them to. Then, we can work together to find new ways of coping that build stronger bonds and bigger feelings of security.

Most people come into couples counseling wanting to work on improving communication or healing hurts. Research shows that helping people focus on their emotions and finding ways to share them in positive ways builds more connection, security, and safety in relationships.

Even better, when we can learn to share our emotions more fully, that’s where the magic happens. When people are sharing their most important vulnerable feelings and aren’t getting caught in negative patterns, they feel happier and live longer!

Gottman Method Couples Counseling

Dr. John Gottman is known for his extensive research in figuring out what makes some relationships last and others fail. In fact, his research has allowed him to predict if a couple will last or not with 92% accuracy!

The Gottman Institute advanced training has given me significant insight into how to make sense of why couples end up on the path to unhappiness, how to change course, and be successful. I promise to come to every session with a framework of curiosity, empathy, and acceptance to help you connect with your most important people.

Favorite Things to Do Outside of Counseling?

Taking hikes on new trails
Going kayaking
Playing board and card games
Hanging out with my pets (or anyone else’s pets, for that matter!)

Emma Loach Counseling Credentials and Background

• Colorado Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
• Florida Telehealth Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
• Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist
• Certified Emotionally Focused Supervisor
• Clinical Director of Thrive Couple & Family Counseling Services
• Advanced ICEEFT Training in Repairing Infidelity
• Gottman Level I and Level II Trained
• Gottman Certification in treating relationship trauma and affairs.
• Certified to use the Prepare-Enrich premarital curriculum

I earned a Master’s and a Specialist’s degree in Couples and Family Therapy from the University of Florida. There, I helped couples, families, parents, and children improve their relationships and well-being. I also worked as a couples and family therapist in Tampa, Florida, before moving to Colorado in 2018.

Counseling Fees and Scheduling

Fees for Counseling Sessions with Emma Loach, LMFT, Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist are $300 for a 75-minute session, $200 for a 50-minute session.

To learn more about Emma or be placed on her waitlist if she has one at the time, you can call 303-513-8975, X1 or contact us here. You can also self-schedule an appointment with Emma Loach online:

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