San Antonio Couples Counseling & Trauma Therapy
Helping couples and individuals in San Antonio heal trauma, break unhealthy patterns, and build stronger, more connected relationships.
Specialized Therapy using:
Gottman Couples Counseling
EFT Couples Counseling
EMDR Trauma Therapy
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Feeling Stuck in the Same Patterns?
You may find yourself experiencing:
• the same arguments over and over
• emotional distance in your relationship
• anxiety, overwhelm, or reactivity
• difficulty feeling understood or connected
• the past continuing to impact the present
These experiences are often part of deeper patterns that develop over time — and they can be changed.
San Antonio Couples Counseling and Trauma Therapy
Grimaldo Counseling helps individuals and couples in San Antonio work through relationship challenges, emotional stress, and the impact of past experiences.
Whether you are trying to improve your relationship, better understand your emotions, or move forward from trauma, therapy can help you gain clarity and create meaningful, lasting change.
How Therapy Can Help:
- Improve communication and reduce conflict
- Feel more connected in your relationships
- Manage anxiety, stress, and overwhelming emotions
- Process painful past experiences
- Build healthier patterns in your life and relationships
Therapy offers a clear path forward.
Couples Counseling in San Antonio
Remove the Barriers in Your Relationship
Cultivating a satisfying relationship requires work. No one teaches you how to design a life as a couple, but working through bumps in the road can be one of the most rewarding things you do for yourself, your relationship, and your family.
Couples Counseling can help with…
- Recovery from infidelity
- Difficulty managing conflict
- Parenting conflict
- Overall dissatisfaction and disconnection
- Supporting a partner through recovery from addiction
- Recover from past trauma
- Improve communication
- Strengthen your relationship
- Resolve conflict
- Increase intimacy
As a trained Gottman Therapist and Emotionally Focused Therapist in San Antonio, I guide couples through a four-session assessment process that provides couples with an overview of strengths and challenges, setting a clear path for improvement. We delve into the power of attachment styles, emotional bonds, and the science behind human connection.
Grimaldo Counseling offers effective couples counseling in San Antonio, as well as virtual couples therapy throughout Texas.
Trauma Therapy in San Antonio
Overcome Trauma for Better Mental Health
Trauma and PTSD is often the root cause of everything from addiction to strained relationships. In an attempt to manage anxiety, depression, or uncomfortable feelings associated with trauma, we use short-term strategies that reduce our quality of life in the long-term.
Trauma Counseling can help…
- Overcome the past with trauma therapy
- Learn to regulate the bodies fight, flight, freeze response
- Improve your mental health
- Understand yourself and your triggers
- Strengthen relationships
- Become resilient
- Learn better ways to cope with stress
- Maintain your recovery
- Reduce emotional distress
As a Certified EMDR Therapist, I help individuals process trauma and reduce the emotional intensity of past experiences. Using EMDR and Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), we work to support lasting change in how your mind and nervous system respond.
For those who feel stuck or haven’t found relief through traditional therapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy offers another path for deeper emotional processing and meaningful change.
As a counselor in San Antonio, my focus is helping you move toward greater clarity, stability, and connection—whether through trauma therapy, EMDR, or integrative approaches.
Meet Sam Grimaldo MA, LMFT, LPC EMDR Certified
Find Clarity with a Trusted Counselor
I’m Sam Grimaldo, a licensed therapist in San Antonio specializing in trauma and relationship therapy. I believe healthy relationships make healthy people. My goal is to help couples and individuals understand the deeper patterns that keep them stuck and develop new ways of connecting, communicating, and healing.
How Therapy Creates Lasting Change
While every person’s journey is unique, most clients move through three important stages in the therapy process.
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Clarity
Understand Where You Are and What You Want
We begin by identifying what you want for your life and relationships so therapy has a clear direction.
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Insight
Recognize the Patterns That Keep You Stuck
We explore the emotional and relational patterns shaping your experiences so you can understand what’s happening beneath the surface.
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Change
Develop New Ways of Responding and Connecting
You’ll build practical tools and new experiences that help you create lasting change in your life and relationships.
Create Meaningful Change in Your Life and Relationships!
Schedule Your Therapy Appointment in San Antonio Today
We are here to support you with expert mental health services and counseling.
Book a session locally and start counseling in San Antonio, or virtually, today.
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