Relationship trauma therapy ·
Atlanta & Georgia
What happened still shapes how you love. It doesn't have to.
Therapy in Atlanta and across Georgia for the wounds that relationships leave behind. In person in South Buckhead, and virtually across Georgia.
You learned to brace inside love.
Somewhere along the way — a betrayal, a caregiver who wasn't safe, a partner who kept you guessing — you learned that closeness can hurt. Now it shows up quietly: the guardedness, the overthinking, the waiting for the other shoe to drop, even with people who've never given you a reason to. That's not you being difficult — that's a wound doing its job.
The ways you protect yourself made sense. They just don't serve you anymore.
The walls, the hypervigilance, the pulling away before you can be left — these were survival skills that once kept you safe. Healing isn't about forcing them down; it's about teaching your system it's safe to lower them. With EFT and attachment-focused work, we help you feel, maybe for the first time, what secure connection is like.
Four ways we rebuild safety, together.
Name what happened
Relationship trauma often gets minimized — "it wasn't that bad." We give it honest language, so you stop blaming yourself for a reasonable response to being hurt.
Rebuild secure connection
This is the heart of the work. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy, we help your nervous system relearn that closeness can be safe — with others and with yourself.
See the pattern
We trace how the wound moves through your relationships, so you can catch the pattern early instead of living it out again.
Care that sees all of you
How we're taught to handle hurt, loyalty, and keeping the peace is shaped by family and culture. We hold that context as we heal.
This might be your work if…
You brace for betrayal even when there's no sign of it.
You pull away before someone can leave you first.
You keep repeating the same painful pattern in relationships and conflicts.
Your struggle to trust, or to feel safe being fully known.
Something from a past relationship still runs the show.
Recognize yourself? Let's talk →
I'M IN THIS WITH YOU
Connection is where we're hurt — and where we heal.
Because relationship trauma happens in connection, it heals in connection too — in a relationship that's finally safe, consistent, and yours. I'm Rochelle Marecheau, LMFT, founder of Thérapie de Marecheau, trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method. My job is to be a trustworthy place while you learn what secure feels like.
In person
A private, soothing office in South Buckhead, Atlanta.
Virtually
Teletherapy anywhere in the state of Georgia.
Fees
Self-pay · Sliding-scale Pricing · Therapy Vouchers
Ready to feel safe in love again?
What happened wasn't your fault, and it isn't the end of your story. One conversation is a safe place to start.
If you're in an unsafe relationship, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.