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Real Connections Counseling

About Us

At Real Connections Counseling and Coaching, we believe healing happens through connection. This is where story meets action and where relationships become the foundation for real and lasting change. We work with individuals, couples, and families who want more than insight. They want movement. They want transformation that reaches into every corner of life.

Rick and Monique Elgersma created the Real Connections System from their own story of love, faith, and resilience. They bring both counseling and coaching together in a way that feels human, relational, and deeply practical. Every session reflects their belief that unity heals and that story, when engaged with intention, creates momentum.

Our standard session is two hours for good reason. Deeper work takes time, space, and presence. The Real Connections System expands beyond traditional models into long-form intensives, seminars, workshops, retreats, and conferences. This system exists for people who want their growth to reach beyond the counseling room and into daily life, family rhythms, leadership roles, and community spaces.

This is a place for people who want to build connection and changes that last. This is a system for those ready to engage their story with courage and hope. Real change begins when relationships are strengthened, faith is active, and every part of life starts moving toward something good.

Meet the Team

Our life as counseling partners is also our life’s work. We bring our own unique personalities and approaches to counseling that actually becomes a unique asset to our couples and families.
Rick Elgersma

Rick Elgersma

Owner, LMFT, M. Litt
Licensed in Iowa, Hawaii, Colorado

Monique Elgersma

Owner, LMFT
Licensed in Iowa, Hawaii, Illinois, Colorado
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Alyssa Elgersma

THERAPIST & ADMIN
LPCC (CO) & tLMHC (IA)

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Matthew Graham

Matthew Graham

Student Intern, CADC

CoTherapy

What if your relationship became your greatest investment?

Strong, leadership-minded couples invest.

Seriously, something brought you here.

Betrayal, distance, anger, or a relationship that has settled into something you know it was never meant to be. Living like that doesn’t work for you, and it doesn’t work for us either.

We don’t leave patterns like that untouched.

Our team steps into what’s happening, exposes what keeps breaking down, and rebuilds your relationship with clarity, strength, and connection you can actually live inside of.

Rebuild trust. Restore closeness. Lead your relationship forward.

👉 Contact Real Connections Counseling & Coaching

The Real Connections Experience

Not just therapy.

Not just coaching.

We're far more transformative.

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We're here to help, please reach out and we’ll help at our earliest convenience.
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