Couples & Individual Therapy for Grapevine, Online

Grapevine sits right up against DFW Airport, and plenty of couples here have lives built around it: pilots, flight attendants, consultants, sales teams, anyone whose calendar is written in departure times. Even if you don't work in aviation, living this close to the airport often means someone in the house is on the road a lot.

Travel-heavy relationships have their own rhythm and their own predictable friction:

• The re-entry fight, that tense first evening home when one of you wants to rest and the other has been running the household alone for four days.
• Two separate routines that never quite merge back into one.
• Saving hard conversations for "when you're home," then not wanting to spend your precious time together on them.
• Loneliness on both sides that each partner keeps to themselves.

None of this means something is wrong with you. It means your relationship needs some deliberate care. In therapy, we can map the pattern, get clear on what each of you needs at departure and at return, and build small rituals of reconnection that hold up under a busy schedule. Online sessions help here too, because we can plan around the weeks you're both in town.

You don't need a perfect schedule to stay close. A few rituals I often suggest:

• A departure check-in. Before a trip, take ten minutes to name what's coming up for each of you that week, so nobody gets blindsided.
• A soft landing. Agree in advance on the first hour home: a hug and a quiet drink before anyone hands over a to-do list.
• One real conversation per trip. Not logistics. A call about how you're actually doing.
• A standing time for hard topics. Choosing a set time keeps difficult conversations from either taking over your reunion or never happening at all.

These aren't magic. They're scaffolding. Therapy helps with what's underneath, the feelings that make reconnecting hard in the first place.

Grapevine has a charm all its own, from historic Main Street to the festival weekends that fill downtown. It's also a place where crossing SH 114 or 121 at the wrong hour can swallow an evening. Meeting by video means no drive, no parking, and no running into a neighbor in a lobby. You close a door at home and you're in session within a minute.

The patterns we work on show up at home, so practicing new ways of talking in the room where you actually argue tends to stick. If video feels awkward at first, tell me. Most couples settle in quickly, and phone sessions are also available.

In couples 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 I also pay close attention to the space between you, where "you and me" becomes "we." Grapevine couples often reach out about:

• Recurring arguments and communication problems
• Emotional or physical distance (intimacy)
• Rebuilding trust after a betrayal
• Getting ready for marriage (premarital counseling)

I integrate the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, and practical skill-building. Learn more on my couples and marriage therapy page. If your schedule suits a few concentrated days better than weekly sessions, take a look at online couples therapy intensives.

Every new couple begins with a free phone consultation, which I require before the first appointment. After that, both partners attend together from the first session, because the relationship is my focus. We meet on SimplePractice, a secure telehealth platform, and both of you need to be located in Texas during the session.

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

People and the way they relate to each other have fascinated me since I was young. I trained at Northwestern University's The Family Institute, have been a licensed Texas LMFT since 2009, and have kept learning through Gottman Method Level 1 training, an EFT externship, IFS, and several Esther Perel programs on modern love and infidelity. Read more about me.