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Couples Counseling, Sex Therapy & ADHD Coaching We hold the hand of hope until it can walk by itself in Thornton, Colorado

We can help you rekindle your loving connection and bring back the spark in your sex life. Sex therapy, couples counseling or adult ADHD coaching may be the answer to improved communication and trust.

Connection, communication, intimacy, and sex are the core of our human experience. When things aren’t working in this realm of our lives, it has a profound impact on the overall quality of our entire life. Helping couples and individuals in Thornton, Littleton Couples Counseling believes in a holistic approach to brain-body mental and emotional health, understanding that the body remembers events and feelings long after the mind has forgotten. With offices conveniently located in Littleton and DTC, our counseling center is one of the few that offers massage therapy in addition to couples counseling, sex therapy, individual therapy, and adult ADHD coaching, as well as counseling for teens, teenagers, and family therapy for living in Thornton.

Littleton Couples Counseling offers both in-office/in-person and Zoom/teletherapy counseling appointments to accommodate your busy schedule, with offices both in Littleton and in the DTC. Littleton Couples Counseling provides sex therapy, couples counseling, and adult ADHD coaching in communities throughout Denver, DTC, WashPark, Cherry Hills Village, Cherry Creek, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Englewood, Parker, Golden, Castle Rock, Castle Pines, Evergreen, Morrison, Greenwood Village, Thornton, Centennial, Arvada, and surrounding areas.

“To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” —e.e.cummings

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Conveniently located in Littleton, Colorado and in the DTC. Our passion is to help people live the lives they desire: one that is genuine and authentic; a life that is courageous and deeply fulfilling through couples counseling and sex therapyThornton.

Discover what stops you from living the life and enjoying the relationships that you want. We build a space for you to explore your traumas, hurts and fears. Together, we inventory your current strengths, help you define your passions, and develop new strengths. Bring your authentic self into congruence with your life goals. Develop relationships that are attuned and reciprocal, ones that are based on mutual respect and kindness.

Improve happiness and intimacy

Intimacy is not sex. Intimacy is being near, available, and vulnerable: emotionally and intellectually. Intimacy builds and increases trust, brings partners together, and provides opportunities to reconnect and rediscover the reasons why partners like each other. Discover and heal the underlying attachment wounds that keep you apart.


How it works

Littleton Couples Counseling employs numerous modalities from an attachment-based perspective including Gottman, EFT, and solution-focused therapy. Trauma may be addressed by EMDR therapy. Not every therapeutic approach works for every client, and our expertise in Experiential Therapy, partner therapy, and Family/Marital Therapy combined with relational, narrative, and person-centered therapy allows us to craft a living, unique solution as individual as you are living in Thornton.

“Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a special heart that listens.” —Buddha

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Life happens and gets in the way

Major life transitions include the birth of a baby, relocations, or job changes. Grief or loss of a loved one will shake your foundations. Retirement, job changes, or relocations are often stressful at best. It can be difficult to find meaning and purpose in today’s world. Some partners struggle with anxiety or depression.

Littleton Couples Counseling combines a number of therapeutic treatment modalities for couples counseling and sex therapy from an attachment-based perspective to maximize effectiveness. Person-centered therapy and integrated therapy combined with Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman, Experiential Therapy and Partners/Family/Marital Therapy, and Gottman Couples therapy allows us to craft a living, unique solution as individual as you. Trauma may be addressed by EMDR therapy.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on adult love relationships, communication styles, and attachment and bonding. The therapist and clients look for patterns in the couple’s relationship that are getting in the way of the close intimate relationship the couple desires and take steps to create a more secure bond and deepen the trust in the relationship. EFT focuses on the present time to makes changes in the here and now. There are three stages of EFT.

We first de-escalate the couple’s negative cycle of interactions, and help them see and understand the stories that are being played out in their relationship and in their individual minds. Clients come to see that the problems lie in their fears and feelings of distance and loneliness.

The next stage restructures interactions. It is here we help clients express their fears in the relationship, in a way that doesn’t push the other away. Clients learn to turn toward each other and ask for their needs to be met like they haven’t done before. This allows for the couple to become more open and responsive to each other.

Consolidation is the final stage of EFT. The therapist helps clients see how they get into negative patterns and helps them gain insight about changing those patterns. This allows the couple to have more honest, productive, and intimate conversations in the future.

Communities we serve

Littleton Couples Counseling offers both in-office/in-person and Zoom/teletherapy counseling appointments to accommodate your busy schedule, with offices both in Littleton and in the DTC. Littleton Couples Counseling provides kink-positive sex therapy, sex therapy, and adult ADHD coaching in communities throughout Denver, DTC, WashPark, Cherry Hills Village, Cherry Creek, Littleton, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Englewood, Parker, Golden, Castle Rock, Castle Pines, Evergreen, Morrison, Greenwood Village, Thornton, Centennial, Arvada, and surrounding areas.


Marriage & Couples Counseling, Sex Therapy Our Clinicians Make The Difference

Why Choose an Integrated Therapist?

As integrated therapists, we are present in the session and curious to what you’re experiencing. We focus on marriage counseling, couples counseling, sex therapy and foster a nonjudgmental, compassionate, and supportive environment where you can safely explore communication styles, develop connections, and learn to express your needs. We help you develop the tools to grow closer to your partner. Littleton Couples Counseling understands the nuances required for successful sex therapy, marriage counseling, and couples counseling.

Chris Wilhoite is a sex therapist and couples therapist.

Chris Wilhoite MS, LMFT-S, CST, C-PST

Founder, Certified Psychosexual Therapist

Chris Wilhoite, founder of Littleton Couples Counseling, believes in couples. When she lost her husband to cancer in 2006, she promised herself she would do everything in her power to allow couples the opportunity to stay together and build a stronger relationships. Couples are made of individuals, and individuals have different needs. Chris is an extensively trained couples counselor, Certified Psychosexual Therapist with the International Association of Psychosexual Therapists, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor in training. She presented her thesis, The role of body image and sexual shame in women’s sexual dysfunction, at the 2024 IAPST International Conference on Sex Therapy.

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Tommy Underhill TTCD, ASDI, ASDCS

Sex, Adult ADHD & Adult Autism

As a person with AuDHD, Tommy gets it. He specializes in working with adults and executives with ADHD and autism. His training in neurophysiological approaches for social, relational, and sexual issues provides the framework for coaching people across the country. Tommy oversees the long-term and strategic management for Littleton Couple’s Counseling. His entrepreneurship and small business management and operations spans more than 30 years. He is a Founding member of the International Association of Psychosexual Therapists and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychosexual Therapy. Tommy presented his research on What every mental health professional needs to know about sex and autism at the 2024 IAPST International Conference on Sex Therapy.

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Caitlin Bovard LPC, CST

Certified Sex Therapist, Couple’s Therapist, Relationships, LGBTQ+

As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Caitlin works with individuals and relationships in all relationship structures including open relationships, ethical non-monogamous, poly, swinging, monogamous, casual and/or long-term relationships.

Littleton Couples Counseling helps couples have better sex

Ava Cohen Ph.D., LCSW, CST

Relationships & Sex, LGBTQIA+

As a Certified Sex Therapist, Ava is a compassionate therapist who is licensed in Colorado and Wyoming. She uses several different therapeutic modalities including: Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Family Systems and a client-centered, strengths-based approach. Ava is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and she holds a doctorate in sexology.

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Shannon Kennealey LCSW, MFT

Adults, Teens, Families

Shannon works with teens, individuals, and families to unlock their inner capacities for strength, self determination, health and happiness, performance, well-being, and meaningful relationships. She takes an integrated approach that pulls from a variety of theoretical frameworks including, attachment theory, narrative therapy, self psychology, emotionally focused theory, and spiritual psychology.

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Jennifer Livingston MSN, NP, PMHNP-BC

Psychiatric nurse practitioner

Jennifer is an integral element of the Littleton Couples Counseling team and brings a deep understanding of the psychopharmacological aspects of maternal mental health and women’s issues, anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, anger, grief, and loss.

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Chelsea Speegle DPT

Pelvic floor physical therapy

Chelsea Speegle is a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) who specializes in pelvic health with a particular interest in helping pregnant and postpartum moms as well as men’s health. She works primarily at Activcore in Littleton, Colorado which is located inside the Women’s Health Care Associates OBGYN clinic.

Women’s care and hormone counseling improves connection, communication, and sex.

Zachary Ripp MD OB/Gyn

Gynecologist in residence

Dr. Ripp offers a patient-centric and educational approach to care. He creates an open, comfortable space where his patients feel free to discuss their feelings and health issues and feel supported. He advocates for people with vulvas and facilitates care based on their choices and needs. Dr. Ripp wants to help minimize his patients’ apprehension about visiting the OB/GYN and provide a safe, supportive environment.

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Korra

Compassionate Therapy Dog

People will tell a dog things they would never feel comfortable telling another human.Korra brings a lifetime of experience helping people who live with anxiety and depression feel more comfortable in their body. She specializes in working with people who need a calming influence in their lives.

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Mālie

Therapy Dog in Training

Mālie (may-lee-uh) in Hawaiian is to be calm or experience serenity and often helps us in the counseling room, just not quite in the way we expected. She is a bundle of loving energy and excels in helping ADHD/ADD people reach threshold and experience more peace and focus.

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