Emotional safety is the foundation of deep, lasting connection in relationships—but many couples don’t know how to create it. In this post, Colorado-based therapist Raquel Perez shares 5 powerful, therapy-informed tools to help you build emotional trust, support vulnerability, and foster insight. Whether you're healing from past wounds or looking to deepen intimacy, these tools offer practical, compassionate guidance for creating the safety your relationship needs to thrive.

Struggling with emotional healing, trauma recovery, or feeling stuck in self-awareness? In this post, therapist Raquel Perez, LPC, explores why self-reflection and therapy are essential to healing childhood trauma, overcoming emotional blocks, and growing into your most authentic self. Learn how to move from insight to action with a powerful therapy-informed tool: Feel It, Name It, Release It. Whether you’re navigating depression, anxiety, or relationship wounds, this guide offers a safe and empowering path forward. Based in Lakewood, Colorado, Raquel offers trauma-informed therapy both in-person and online across Colorado.

Feeling stuck in your healing journey despite consuming endless self-help content? In this blog, Colorado-based therapist Raquel Perez, LPC, explores how self-improvement can become a trap that feeds your inner critic—and why acceptance and emotional safety are essential for true growth. Learn how therapy for depression, anxiety, and relationship issues can help you move beyond self-help and into meaningful transformation.