Areas of Focus: Couples Coaching, Betrayal Trauma, Spousal Addictions
Juanita is on Maternity Leave and is not accepting new
clients at this time.
Juanita Pfaff is the founder of Crossroads Couples Coaching and a certified relationship coach through the Center for Thriving Relationships. She is a wife of 18 years and homeschooling mom of 8. She has bachelor’s degrees in Catholic Studies and in Spanish from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and a master’s degree in Spanish from the University of New Mexico. Throughout her educational and professional background, learning how to build and grow relationships has been her passion, as family, faith, culture, and language are built on, around, and through relationships. Her own marriage story includes many trials, as her husband struggled with addiction for many years. She has personal experience living with a spouse in addiction and understands the suffering it causes, as well as the challenges of recovery where there needs to be space to grieve and consistent effort to rebuild, reconcile, and restore. Juanita specializes in helping couples recovering from addictions to heal the disconnect and brokenness and create a thriving relationship through open and honest communication, authentic connection, and tender conversations that bring healing, peace, and post-traumatic growth. She also works with couples who have not dealt with addictions but seek to grow in their relationship, work through past hurts, and learn or refine the skills of intentionality, consistency, and thoughtfulness to allow for heartfelt sharing and soulful listening within the coupleship. She works with individuals as well, offering support to betrayed partners or individuals whose spouses do not desire to engage in coaching.
www.crossroadscouplescoaching.com
www.catholiccouplescoaching.com
crossroadscouplescoaching@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
- Thriving Relationship Coach certification – Center for Thriving Relationships
- M.A., Spanish – University of New Mexico
- B.A., Catholic Studies; B.A., Spanish – University of St. Thomas
ADDITIONAL TRAINING AND MINISTRY WORK:
- Dynamic Neural Retraining System – Program participant
- “Couples and Addiction Training” – The Gottman Institute
- “Healing Toxic Injuries in Love Relationships: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) with Dr. Sue Johnson”
- “Emotional Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) for Healing Attachment Wounds” (Digital Seminar by Dr. Leanne Campbell)
- “Addiction Treatment and Couples Therapy: Using Emotionally Focused Therapy to Strengthen Sobriety” (Digital Seminar by Dr. Michael Barnett, LPC, Certified EFT Trainer)
- The Empowered Wife – Digital Course by Coach Carol Beauchemin, Beloved Marriage Coaching
- Hope’s Garden – Mighty Networks space moderator, peer support group facilitator, relationship and life coach
- Unbound, Basic Ministry Training in prayer and deliverance
- Unbound, Advanced Ministry Training
- CHRIST Program – Program participant, trained facilitator
- Immanuel Approach Training – in progress
- IACCR Level 1 Couples Centered Recovery training
PUBLICATIONS:
- “Broken and Beloved,” chapter in Sacred Wounds: Stories of Redemption, Healing and Growth.
- “La Santidad: Devotions of a New Mexican Woman,” essay in Recovering Spanish Religious Thought and Practice of the United States.
- “Traditional Spanish Language Maintenance and the Revitalization of Culture and Faith: A Mission for the Body of Christ,” essay in Rites, Rituals and Religions: Amerindian, Spanish, Latin American and Latino Worlds.
- “Rites and Rituals of the Roman Catholic Priesthood: Holy Orders: San Manuel Bueno. Human Weakness in the Vocation: Saintly Martyr or Sinful Hypocrite?” essay in Rites, Rituals and Religions: Amerindian, Spanish, Latin American and Latino Worlds.