ALCOHOL RECOVERY THERAPY FOR COUPLES
If you’re seeking couples therapy for alcohol recovery in Minneapolis, you’ve already taken brave steps toward healing. Whether one or both partners are in recovery, therapy offers a safe, structured space to deepen your emotional connection, rebuild trust, and integrate the principles of sobriety into your relationship. This work honors your courage, your complexity, and your commitment to lasting change.
Recovery reshapes relationships. It asks for honesty, humility, and grace — not just from the person in recovery, but from the couple as a whole. Whether one partner is working the AA steps or both are navigating recovery, therapy can help you co-create a relationship that supports healing, connection, and long-term growth.
Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have recovered is more rewarding and satisfying that the one they left behind.
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Healing Together–Whether One or Both Partners are in Recovery or Getting Sober
Relationships impacted by alcohol use or addiction often face complex emotional shifts, trust ruptures, and communication challenges. Therapy offers a safe, structured space to rebuild connection, integrate recovery tools, and move forward with clarity and compassion.
Couples therapy for alcohol recovery supports partners in Minneapolis and beyond—whether you’re newly sober, in long-term recovery, or seeking relapse prevention. We will help restore emotional safety, rebuild trust, and support individual healing as well as shared growth.
COMMON THEMES WE ADDRESS TOGETHER IN OUR COUPLE’S WORK INCLUDE:
- Navigating different recovery timelines: when one partner is sober and the other is adjusting, or both are on individual paths of recovery
- Relapse, renewal, and long-term sobriety: supporting couples through new sobriety, long-term recovery, or responding to slips and setbacks
- Repairing trust and emotional rupture: processing secrecy, shame, grief, or alcohol-related distance in the relationship
- Communicating about cravings and triggers: building emotional safety through open dialogue and shared understanding
- Respecting individual recovery while nurturing the relationship: supporting each partner’s healing without losing connection
- Integrating 12-Step tools into daily life: using spiritual principles, steps, and inventories to guide relational growth
- Reconnecting emotionally and physically: creating rituals and routines that feel safe, affirming, and aligned with recovery values
- Tracking progress and shared goals: using visual tools and check-ins to stay grounded and collaborative
- Seeking clarity, forgiveness, and renewal Honoring the past while building a future rooted in trust, grace, and mutual care
I’m not telling you it is going to be easy,
I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it. — Anonymous
Couples Therapy for Alcohol Recovery – Rooted in 12-Step Integration and Relational Healing
In couples therapy for alcohol and addiction recovery, we explore the emotional, relational, and behavioral patterns that shape your connection. Whether you’re navigating early sobriety, long-term recovery, or relapse repair, couples therapy for alcohol recovery in Minneapolis offers a structured space to deepen understanding and rebuild trust.
We create space grounded in recovery values and relational care. We honor each partner’s unique healing path while exploring difficult dynamics with compassion and accountability.
WHAT WE EXPLORE IN COUPLES RECOVERY THERAPY
- Family of origin dynamics: exploring emotional neglect, misattunement, trauma, and inherited patterns of addiction or relational coping
- Shame and avoidance: understanding how shame contributes to addictive behaviors and emotional withdrawal
- Emotionally safe communication: practicing tools for navigating difficult conversations with clarity, empathy, and respect
- Step-aligned support for amends and forgiveness: integrating 12-Step principles to rebuild trust and foster relational accountability
- Boundaries and recovery protection: setting and respecting boundaries that support sobriety without enabling or falling into codependency
- Rebuilding intimacy and connection: creating practices that nurture emotional closeness, mutual care, and relational safety
- Sexual intimacy in sobriety: learning how to reconnect physically in ways that feel safe, affirming, and aligned with recovery values
- Navigating relapse and resistance: supporting couples through setbacks, emotional resistance, and long-term repair
- Recovery timeline differences: addressing emotional needs when partners are on different paths or stages of sobriety
- Trauma, perfectionism, and relational patterns: exploring how past wounds and internal pressures intersect with recovery and couple dynamics
“An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude
for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things
tomorrow will be the permanent assets we seek”
— Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Guiding Couples: Sobriety, Recovery, and the 12-Steps
Couples therapy can be especially transformative for partners navigating addiction, sobriety, or spiritual growth through recovery. Whether you’re both in a 12-Step program or supporting a loved one through theirs, this work offers structure, clarity, and emotional safety.
THIS THERAPY IS HELPFUL FOR COUPLES WHO ARE:
- Seeking a therapist who understands the language of the Steps and honors your spiritual path
- Wanting to apply 12-Step principles—like honesty, amends, and spiritual growth—to your relationship
- Feeling stuck in a recurring dynamic and needing clarity, tools, or outside perspective
- In a relationship affected by alcohol use, addiction, or recovery—whether you’re the one healing or supporting someone who is
- Looking for a compassionate, nonjudgmental space that balances autonomy with accountability
- Needing help navigating different recovery timelines, emotional needs, or relational expectations
- Craving structure and spiritual grounding in your couples work
- Actively involved in AA, Al-Anon, or another 12-Step program and seeking deeper relational support
THERAPY THAT GETS TO THE HEART OF IT AND GIVES YOU THE TOOLS TO CHANGE
Take a look at our therapist bio for Jen Rives who works with couples struggling with addiction and recovery issues in their relationship.
Therapy gives you tools and support to move past painful patterns and helps you get to the good stuff – relationships, connection, peace, and SERENITY!
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You deserve a better way. Focusing on how you both relate to each other and to recovery helps uncover the healthiest, most authentic, and best version of yourselves together.
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