Jewel Foutz

Couples Counseling in Salt Lake City

No one teaches us how to be in a relationship with another human. There’s no class, no manual – just people, doing their best with the tools they were handed. Jewel Foutz built her entire practice around that truth. She knows how disorienting it feels when the relationship you wanted most starts to feel like the place you feel most alone. And she knows, from both her clinical training and her own life, that this kind of pain is healable.

Jewel is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at Simple Modern Therapy, practicing under the clinical supervision of Andrés Larios Brown, LMFT (UT License 11379321-3902). She holds a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Utah Valley University, where she developed a specialty in couples work and relational healing. Before stepping into the therapy room full-time, she spent years in the mental health field working alongside individuals navigating queer identity, disordered eating, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, self-harm, and suicidality. This experience has given her a clinical range most early-career therapists simply don’t have.

Her particular passion is helping couples break painful cycles: the pursuer and the withdrawer, the argument that’s never really about the dishes, the silence that builds until two people feel like strangers. Jewel uses a trauma-informed, emotionally focused lens to help partners understand why they keep arriving at the same painful place, and how to find their way back to each other. She is also a dedicated space for individuals navigating faith deconstruction (particularly those leaving the LDS faith), LGBTQIA+ clients, and people of color seeking a therapist who leads with genuine affirmation.