Couples & Individual Therapy for Colleyville, Online

Colleyville is a family town, and many of the couples I hear from here have been together a long time. They've built careers, raised children through Grapevine-Colleyville schools, and put years into a home. Then a new season arrives, and the relationship that ran smoothly on autopilot suddenly doesn't.

Some of the shifts that bring long-term couples to therapy:

• The quieter house. When kids launch, couples sometimes discover they've been relating mostly as co-parents. The question becomes, "Who are we now?"
• Old resentments resurfacing. Hurts that got shelved during the busy years tend to come back once there's room for them.
• Caring for aging parents while still showing up for adult children, and feeling stretched between generations.
• Changes in desire or health that neither of you quite knows how to talk about.

These are normal turning points, not signs of failure. In therapy, we slow the patterns down so you can see them clearly, and then we practice new ways of reaching for each other. Sometimes that work extends to the wider family. I also offer family therapy for adult families, including parents and their grown children, and I've written about building a great relationship with your adult child.

Some long marriages come to therapy after an affair, or after the discovery of secrets kept for years. It can feel as if the whole history of the relationship has been rewritten overnight.

I've trained with Esther Perel on rethinking infidelity, along with the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy, and I bring all of that to this work. We make room for the hurt partner's shock and grief without rushing toward forgiveness. We also make room for the partner who strayed to understand what happened, not as an excuse, but as information. Over time, the question becomes what kind of relationship you want to build from here, and how to build it with honesty.

There's no timeline I'll push you toward. Recovery after betrayal moves at the pace trust can be rebuilt.

Between commutes along SH 26 and 121, work trips out of DFW Airport, and family commitments that don't stop just because the kids are older, finding an hour that works for two people is hard enough. Online sessions take the drive out of the equation.

Meeting from home also offers a kind of privacy that matters in a close-knit community. And because the patterns you want to change live at home, practicing there tends to help them stick. If you prefer, phone sessions are available as well.

In therapy, I get to know each of you as individuals and also focus on the relational space between you, the place where you become we instead of you and me. I integrate the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, and practical skill-building in communication and coping.

Colleyville couples often bring communication problems, intimacy concerns, recovery after infidelity, and questions about the future. Read more about my couples and marriage therapy, or about concentrated online couples therapy intensives.

Every new couple starts with a free phone consultation, which is required before the first appointment. Both partners attend from the very first session. We meet on SimplePractice, a secure telehealth platform, and both of you need to be located in Texas at the time of the session.

Couples sessions are $230 and individual sessions are $200. I'm out of network with all insurance and provide superbills for out-of-network reimbursement. See rates and insurance.

People and the way they relate to each other have fascinated me since I was young. I'm a Texas LMFT (#201087), trained at Northwestern University's The Family Institute, with continuing education in Gottman Method, EFT, IFS, EMDR, and several Esther Perel programs. Read more about my background.