COUPLES THERAPY IN HOUSTON, TX
Therapy for couples with intense lives who want to be a team again
You remember many times when you were so connected, best friends, and “that couple” others admired.
Then all the demands of life started to overshadow your closeness, and you’ve become more like roommates. You argue more with the same disagreements cropping up because you can’t seem to resolve big or even small differences.
Yet, you want to learn how to restore the loving and supportive togetherness you cherished. You long to to return to all the joy that was the hallmark of being “that couple.”
Through couples therapy, you can:
Move away from cycles of repeated arguments and learn to create new understanding of yourself and your partner
Resolve issues, old and new, with greater appreciation of each partner’s perspective and deeper feelings
Shift the way you think about stress and challenging events, allowing better choices both as a couple and as individuals
Manage stressful situations as a team
Recover from emotionally hurtful events and move forward with renewed connection
Proven Approaches that Help Couples Recover Their Connection
We bring years of training and experience using scientifically based, highly successful methods of relationship therapy, namely EFT and ACT.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Years ago, couples counseling consisted primarily of teaching couples how to talk to one another. The success was limited and rarely lasting.
Emotionally Focused Therapy, commonly known as EFT, offers couples a strongly research-supported and scientifically-based roadmap to recovery from relationship distress.
Importantly, the process is gentle and affirming of each partner’s uniqueness and his or her desires to be a loving partner.
Through EFT:
The cycle of arguing, distancing and disconnection is identified as the problem — not either of you!
Each partner gains a new understanding of his or her style of connecting with their partner, which can hold the keys to lasting and positive change.
Couples gain a new framework of communication, but from the all-important perspective of deeply understanding your partner and yourself.
Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapy
In my years of working with couples, I’ve watched them struggle with strong emotions and how to better navigate challenging situations. To help you become more skillful in coping with difficult events, I weave into our work the research-supported strengths of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, commonly called ACT.
ACT helps you fully make space for your inner experience rather than attempt (often endlessly) to control feelings or situations.
In ACT couples counseling, you’ll learn:
To slow down your emotional reactions to events or troubling thoughts
Greater acceptance of circumstances or feelings such as anxiety or uncertainty
To allow the feelings to occur rather than spending countless energy in suppressing or avoiding those thoughts or beliefs
To develop greater compassion toward your own challenges — and those facing your partner.
When something needs to shift… now.
Intensive couples therapy can accomplish in a few days what typically takes months of weekly couples therapy.
COUPLES THERAPY INTENSIVES
Meet Our Team
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Dr. Laura Spiller, Psychologist
Dual-career professional couples, affair recovery, discernment counseling, blended families, business partners, relationships affected by anxiety or ADHD
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Charisse Ferrer, M.Ed., LPC-S
Multi-cultural & cross-cultural relationships, grief, loss, and life transitions, first generation immigrants
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Dr. Rachel Floyd, Psychologist
Couples, high-functioning professionals, men navigating modern masculinity, women’s issues (including PMDD & PD)
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Gabriel Gonzalez, LCSW
LGBTQIA+, Immigration, First Responders & Health Care Workers, Non-monogamy/BDSM/Kink, Executive stress
Bilingual (English/Spanish)
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Amy Shada, MA, LMFT-A
Families and couples with children with special needs (Autism, ADHD, Developmental Delays), Parenting, Couples navigating neurodivergence
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Deanna Pollard, MA, Advanced Doctoral Student
Couples, trauma, communication issues, intimacy concerns, break up recovery, dating insight and support
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Rachel Goldstein, MA, LMFT-A
Couples & relationships, parenting struggles, perinatal mental health, infertility, workplace challenges, grief & loss
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