Couples & Individual Therapy for Keller, Online

Keller is full of young and growing families, and I hear a familiar story from parents here. You're a great team on logistics. You know who has the Keller ISD pickup, who's driving to the weekend tournament, and who's handling the dentist. But somewhere along the way, nearly every conversation became a handoff, and the two of you stopped feeling like a couple.

It rarely happens because of one big rupture. It happens in small moments. One of you makes a bid for attention, a comment, a touch, a "look at this," and the other is too depleted to notice. Do that a few hundred times and you end up lonely in a full house.

In therapy, we look at that pattern without blame. We get curious about what each of you is longing for underneath the irritation, and we practice small, realistic habits of turning toward each other, the kind that fit into a week with soccer practice in it. Read more about relationship health and conflict resolution.

If you're not quite ready to start therapy, here's an experiment. Once a week, sit down together for twenty minutes with no phones and no logistics. Each of you answers three questions:

1. What felt good between us this week?
2. What was hard for me this week, inside or outside our relationship?
3. What's one thing I could use from you in the week ahead?

The listener's only job is to understand, not to fix or defend. If that conversation keeps sliding into the same old argument, that's useful information too. It usually means there's a pattern underneath worth slowing down together, and that's exactly the kind of thing we can work on in couples therapy.

For a lot of Keller couples, the barrier to therapy isn't motivation. It's time. Commutes down I-35W or around Loop 820, jobs out toward Alliance or across the Metroplex, and a house full of activity make a weekly drive to an office one more thing to coordinate.

With online sessions, there's no drive and often no need for a sitter, as long as you can find a private room and a closed door. Evening availability is limited, so I'll be honest with you about my openings during your phone consultation, and we'll look for a time that can actually hold.

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 focus on the space between you, where "you and me" becomes "us." Keller couples often come in with:

• Communication problems and the same argument on repeat
• Fading closeness and intimacy after kids
• Different parenting styles creating tension between you
• Trust repair after an affair or broken promise

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

New couples start 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 telehealth platform, and both of you need to be in Texas during the session.

Couples sessions are $230 and individual sessions are $200. I'm out of network with all insurance and can give you a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement. More on my rates and insurance page.

I'm a Texas LMFT (#201087) trained at Northwestern University's The Family Institute. People and the way they relate to each other have fascinated me since I was young, and there is nothing more gratifying than watching a couple move from disconnection to reconnection. Read more about me.