COUPLES THERAPY IN HOUSTON, TX

Your therapist will spend your intake session getting more information about your relationship, your concerns, and what you hope to achive. They'll explain the therapy approaches they'll use, such as the Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) or Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), so you'll have a better understanding of what will come next. Your therapist will use a combination of techniques to personalize couples therapy for you. Each couple is unique, and by combining expertise in multiple therapeutic modalities, your counselor will make sure your counseling sessions are the right fit for you and your partner.

In future sessions, you'll examine relationship patterns and the underlying emotions that drive them. You'll learn communication skills that will help you to understand each other, building mutual empathy and understanding. You'll learn new ways to handle conflict and create closeness, rebuilding your relationship through sincere, vulnerable repair efforts.

Your therapist will approach each session with the goal of helping each of you to work on your relationship, using their expertise and experience to come up with the best possible approaches to support you both in building a rewarding, healthy relationship.

At Heights Couples Therapy, relationship support is what we do best.

We are a focused therapy practice, with counselors capable of providing both individual and couples therapy who specialize in:

• Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) for couples

• Gottman therapy for couples

• Support for dual career

• Couples counseling for parents

• Support for parents of special needs children

• Counseling for couples navigating grief or loss

• Premarital counsleing

• Couples therapy for neurodivergent couples

• Breakup therapy

• Non-monogamous couples therapy

• Betrayal recovery counseling

• Therapy for spiritual and religious couples

• Individual relationship therapy

• Multicultural and cross-cultural couples therapy

• LGBTQ couples counseling

• Discernment counseling

• Couples therapy intensives

• And more!

Whatever you and your partner(s) are going through, we have counselors who are both trained and experienced in providing support to Houston couples experiencing the same challenges.

Our Houston counselors take a non-judgmental, supportive, and empathetic approach to every relationship. We stay up to date on the evolving world of relationship support, ensuring you receive the best couples therapy possible.

If you or your partner aren’t sure you want to continue the relationship, or one of you is fairly certain you're ready to leave but the other is still interested in working on the relationship, discernment counseling can help.

Discernment counseling functions differently from couples counseling. It takes place over one to five sessions, and is a space for each of you to work individually with an experienced relationship counselor to gain clarity and understanding over where you are in the relationship, and what you want the future to look like. After each set of individual sessions, you and your partner will come together to discuss what you've determined.

By the end of discernment counseling, you will have a clear picture on whether you're ready to separate, if you'd like to keep working on the relationship, or if you need more time before deciding.

Couples therapy can help couples in crisis, but they aren't the only ones who can benefit.

You can use couples therapy as a space to:

• Reinforce your bond and get on the same page before a major life change like marriage, having a child, or retirement.

• Expand your abilities to communicate and connect with each other.

• Learn how to help each other when one partner is going through something difficult.

If your partner won't go to couples therapy, you can still pursue therapy that will help you work on your relationship.

Individual relationship therapy is a space to explore your role in relationship patterns past and present, allowing you to bring insights and skills back to your relationship. You can also learn more about what you want and need out of a relationship, build your self-esteem, learn to manage your anxieties, and heal from past relationship wounds.

Safety is paramount in couples counseling. Both partners need to be safe with each other before couples therapy can help.

Couples therapy in Houston is not a good option for couples dealing with:

• Abuse

• An ongoing affair

• Serious mental health concerns

• Serious, active addiction

If your therapist determines that couples therapy isn't the right fit for you, your therapist will help you pursue better options like individual therapy, domestic violence resources, and/or substance abuse support.

We do not accept insurance and are not in-network providers. If you need therapy covered by your insurance, we recommend contacting your insurance company for a list of their providers.

Before starting couples therapy, check with your insurance to see if they reimburse for CPT code 90847 with a diagnosis. Often, insurance doesn’t cover couples or family therapy unless it’s deemed medically necessary for a diagnosed patient.

If you have out-of-network coverage (usually a PPO plan), we can provide a monthly superbill for you to request partial reimbursement from your insurance company. If you are using out-of-network coverage, your insurance plan will require us to identify a “patient” and provide a diagnosis.