Building Stronger Relationships Through Couples Counseling in Texas & California

Couples 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. 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. Sometimes, our 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

  • Infidelity & Trust Repair

  • Loss of Intimacy / Emotional Disconnection

    • “We feel more like roommates than partners”

  • Recurring Conflict or High Reactivity

  • Attachment Style Conflicts

    • One partner is avoidant and one is pursuing

  • Sexual Intimacy Concerns

    • Shame, trauma, performance anxiety

  • Life Transitions

    • Becoming a new parent, loss of a job, blended families, caregiving

  • Parenting or Co-Parenting Conflicts

  • Mental Health or Trauma Impacts on Relationship

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

    • Other partner feels like a caretaker rather than a partner

Good news: we’re here to provide a supportive, nonjudgmental space to explore your relationship dynamics and develop practical tools for lasting growth and change.

Aligned Therapy Collective, trauma and anxiety therapy in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and California including Los Angeles, Brentwood, West Hollywood, Marina Del Rey, Culver City and more.