Couples & Marriage Counseling

"Never stop being curious about your partner. Don't assume you know who they are today". - John M. Gottman

Relationships can be both deeply fulfilling and full of challenges. Utilizing techniques from Emotionally-Focused Therapy and The Gottman Method, we offer couples counseling to help partners overcome communication barriers, rebuild trust, and foster deeper emotional and intimate connection to create (or recreate) a strong foundation.

We help our couples better understand the dance of their relationship, their communication patterns, and the unmet needs beneath conflicts.

Sometimes relationships can get stuck in cycles that feel unsustainable or overwhelming. These can include:

• Communication Issues

  • This can look like feeling misunderstood, unheard, escalating conflicts, or difficulty expressing emotions or needs.

• Loss of Intimacy / Emotional Disconnection

  • “We feel more like roommates than partners.”

• Recurring Conflict or High Reactivity

• Attachment Style Conflicts

  • One partner is avoidant/withdrawing, and the other is pursuing

• Infidelity & Trust Repair

  • This can cause a post-traumatic anxiety or hyperarousal response as trust is slowly rebuilt

• Sexual Intimacy Concerns

  • Shame, trauma, performance anxiety

• Life Transitions

  • Becoming a new parent, loss of a job, a career change, blending families, or caregiving, among others

• Parenting or Co-Parenting Conflicts

  • Parenting communication styles, child-rearing and more

• Mental Health or Trauma Impacts on the Relationship

  • One partner’s anxiety/depression or PTSDis causing emotional withdrawal or over-functioning

  • The other partner feels like a caretaker rather than a partner

Good news: Alyssa Autterson, LPC-Associate at Aligned Therapy Collective, specializes in couples counseling.

We’re here to provide supportive, non-judgmental couples therapy in Texas and California, helping you explore your relationship dynamics and develop practical tools for lasting growth and change.