Couples & Individual Therapy for Dallas, Online

Anyone who drives in Dallas knows how much of life disappears into I-35E, LBJ, or the Tollway. Add long workdays, frequent travel, and everything else on your calendar, and a weekly trip to a therapist's office can become the reason therapy never starts. Online sessions give you that time back.

Dallas is also a big, diverse city with couples from many cultures, faiths, and backgrounds, as well as students and faculty at places like SMU and UT Dallas. I work with intercultural and interfaith couples, South Asian and Muslim clients, and people with no religious affiliation at all. You can read more about my approach to multicultural issues and spirituality.

Early in my career, I provided social-skills groups and individual therapy at an inpatient substance-abuse treatment facility in Dallas. That work gave me a lasting respect for how much a relationship carries when one partner is struggling with alcohol or drugs, and how much it carries during recovery, too.

Partners often describe a confusing mix of relief, resentment, hypervigilance, and grief. The person in recovery may feel watched, ashamed, or impatient to be trusted again. Both of you can be doing your best and still end up stuck.

Couples therapy can be a place to rebuild trust slowly, communicate without the old scripts, and rediscover who you are together. It works best alongside the right recovery support, not in place of it. If active substance use calls for a higher level of care, I'll tell you honestly and help you think through next steps.

Some Dallas couples find that weekly sessions just don't fit. Between travel, long hours, and family obligations, a standing weekly hour keeps getting bumped. For those couples, an online couples intensive can be a good alternative.

Intensives are longer, focused blocks of therapy, a minimum of three hours over one or more days, held online just like regular sessions. They can help when you want to address one major issue in depth, like the aftermath of an affair or a big decision about your future, or when you want to jump-start the work before settling into a regular rhythm. You can read more on my couples therapy intensives page, or contact me for rates.

In therapy, we explore the assumptions and emotional blocks that get in the way of intimacy and healthy communication. I get to know each of you and also focus on the space between you, where "you and me" becomes "we." Dallas couples come to me for communication problems, intimacy and desire, trust after infidelity, and preparing for commitment.

I integrate the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, and skill-building. Read more on my couples and marriage therapy page.

New couples begin with a free phone consultation, which I require before the first appointment. Both partners attend from the first session. We meet on SimplePractice's secure 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.

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 on infidelity and modern love. Read more about me.