In-Person in Gilbert, AZ 85233
Online in Arizona
If you’ve found your way here, odds are something in your world might feel tangled, heavy, or out of alignment. You may love each other deeply and still feel stuck in painful patterns you can’t seem to escape. Maybe conversations escalate quickly, one of you shuts down while the other pursues, resentment keeps building, or trust has been damaged by repeated hurt, betrayal, or emotional disconnection. Over time, couples often begin feeling more like roommates, opponents, or strangers than partners.
Whatever brought you here, you’re not alone and you’re in the right place to begin healing. In couples counseling, you’ll find a space where your nervous system can exhale—where we can slow down, untangle patterns, heal emotional injuries, and strengthen the threads that create secure, meaningful relationships.
I specialize in helping couples slow down these negative cycles, rebuild emotional safety, strengthen communication, and reconnect beneath the conflict. My relationship counseling approach is attachment-based, trauma-informed, and grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Family Systems, and Gottman Method, helping partners move from blame and defensiveness toward understanding, responsiveness, and deeper connection.
Whether you’re navigating chronic conflict, intimacy issues, infidelity recovery, parenting stress, premarital concerns, or the impact of trauma on your relationship, couples therapy can become a space where both partners feel heard, understood, and supported.
I primarily work with couples and adults navigating relationship distress, attachment wounds, trauma, and emotional disconnection.
I currently have availability for in-person and online sessions and would love to connect. Together, we’ll work toward creating a relationship that feels safer, more connected, and more resilient.
Client Focus
Session Format: Couple, Family, Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Children, Teen, Young Adult
Demographic Expertise: LGBTQ+, Women clients.
Languages: English
Treatment Approach
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Focuses on strengthening emotional bonds in couples or families. It helps people identify negative cycles and create more secure connections.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) A structured therapy that uses guided eye movements to help process traumatic memories. It is widely recognized for treating PTSD and trauma-related conditions.
- Family Systems Therapy Looks at problems within the context of the family as a whole. It aims to improve communication and balance in family relationships.
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Based on decades of research, this method gives couples tools to improve communication, manage conflict, and strengthen intimacy.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Helps clients heal by working with different ‘parts’ of themselves, like inner critics or wounded children. It fosters harmony within the self.
- Relational Psychotherapy Emphasizes the healing power of the therapist-client relationship. It uses trust and safety as a foundation for change.
Approach Description: I believe that healing comes through understanding, empathy, connection, and consistency. I've been known to utilize metaphors, humor, and psycho education to ensure that things not only make sense, but that they can be applied and woven into lasting change. My approach blends valuable lived experience with high-quality clinical training, the newest and most effective therapy methods, and a constant pursuit of advanced education. This means you receive care that is grounded, evidence-based, relational, and deeply attuned to your story.
Fees & Insurance
Fees
- Average Session Fee 150
- Out of Network
Education & Credentials
Grace Judd M.A., LAMFT
- Female
- License # LAMFT-10946
- Licensed in AZ
- Practicing Since 2022
Education: M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Touro University
B.A. in Marriage and Family, Preclinical from Brigham Young University-Idaho
Grace Judd Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available In-Person in Gilbert, AZ 85233
- Available Online for residents of Arizona
- Online Therapy Details: SimplePractice
This is a supervised private practice. It is owned/and managed by a master's level, non-independent licensee under Board approved clinical supervision pursuant to A.A.C. R4-6-211. The Board-approved clinical supervisor is: Michaela Decker, (480) 746-4894, hello@vestacounseling.com