Great Couples Counseling in Richmond, TX. Therapy to heal relationships.

Be it married, partnered, dating, engaged, separated, divorced, or another arrangement, I offer couples counseling to help address concerns you have about your relationship. Couples counseling is unique because your relationship is my client. I consider the unique needs of you and your partner, but the main focus is on your relationship. My role in couples counseling is to assist communication in your relationship. My approach involves teaching you and your partner skills to distinguish healthy communication from unhealthy communication. The idea is for your relationship to replace unhealthy patterns of interaction with healthier styles of communication.

Let me guess. One partner feels alone and like they don't matter and the other feels they are always being criticized and can't get anything right. The more one asks for the other to show up, the more the partner disappears physically and emotionally. You both bicker and fight and the idea of sitting and just hanging out seems elusive, if not impossible. Something like this? Often we crave connection but are blocked by the pain and the history that gets in the way. Small fights about little things become battles that highlight our struggle to have our basic relational needs met. I can help you get under the bickering to the parts crying out for connection- to an enriching relationship.

Navigating marriage and intimate relationships can be a complex journey because they are shaped by our individual life experiences, our unique personalities, and our hopes, desires, and expectations, which can sometimes clash as the years pass. This doesn’t mean you can’t turn things around and rediscover the love and joy you used to have! Most of us were not given the tools to engage and nurture our roles as spouses, partners, lovers, and parents in a healthy way. This is where I step in to offer my support. I am here to help you sort through the challenges and uncover the hidden strengths within yourselves with the goal of injecting joy to create healing and connection with your partner.

I facilitate constructive and open dialogues to strengthen relationships. Through effective communication strategies and conflict resolution techniques, I guide couples in addressing issues and enhancing emotional connection. My goal is to help partners rediscover shared goals, improve mutual understanding, and cultivate a healthier and more fulfilling partnership.

Relationships require compassion, respect, and recognition of "other" to thrive. We learn how to be in relationship in childhood, and naturally bring those skills to adult life. Through insight into individual beliefs and patterns and how those contribute to you seeing and hearing others, you can make adjustments to enhance your relationships.

Couples face an array of issues in our modern world. I will work with you to maximize your communication in order to have your best relationship as a couple. We will look at unhealthy patterns that may be affecting your relationship. I am committed to helping you reach your goals both individually and as a couple. Together we will help you understand what's important to each of you as a couple.

Given the opportunity to explore emotions and past wounds, I allow my clients to create a new narrative about their relationship. I help couples foster healthy communication and awareness to leave counseling with a deeper, more empathetic understanding of one another. Whether you are married, dating, or engaged couples counseling is a place to improve communication, re-ignite passion, and even save your relationship.

Are you feeling lonely in your own marriage? Disrespected? Misunderstood? It doesn’t have to stay this way. Far too often, high-achieving men feel disrespected and lonely within their own marriages. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I help men and their wives to rediscover the incredible value they bring to the marriage, and help them negotiate a hopeful path forward. I will help you identify destructive patterns in your marriage and provide healthier alternatives. I’ll help you improve communication, learn to fight fair, and increase understanding and connection. While it’s not easy work, there is hope. If given the chance, I would be honored to help you fight for your marriage.

I have completed Level 1 training in the Gottman Method. I use this approach when working with couples. I begin with the Gottman Assessment, which consists of more than 300 questions. This assessment provides information such as relationship satisfaction, communication styles, viewpoints on whether you feel known by your partner, trust, infidelity issues, commitment levels, and much more. The assessment provides a roadmap of the journey towards improving communication and the friendship with your spouse.

Want to improve your relationship, learn how to communicate more effectively or prepare for marriage? Couples and relationship counseling can help. Having an objective facilitator can make it easier to resolve perpetual disputes, hear each other's perspectives and express vulnerable feelings. Couples counseling is about helping you restore connection with one another. I also offer in depth personality assessments to help you understand each better and communicate to each other's style. Contact me to find if relationship counseling is right for you.

Couples therapy has been a primary specialty of mine since 1987. I warmly work with you to fulfill your relationship goals by professionally assessing and improving your relationship approach as individuals. I can help with communication issues, trust issues, intimacy and passion, anger issues, anxiety, worry, and stress. I would love to help the two of you create the relationship you desire. Please call 713-774-2122 for couples therapy.

There are countless models of healthy romantic relationships, from monogamous to polyamorous, and unique variations between partners. The scripts for dating and longterm relationships of our parents’ generations may not be applicable to your relationship, and there is no formal education in how to be a good partner or how to identify unhealthy relationships. But there is psychological research that shows that effective communication, emotional openness, intimacy, and other factors contribute to healthy relationships. Creating these conditions are skills that can be learned. I practice brief humanistic and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) to help my LGBTQ and hetero clients learn these skills.

I have over 30 years experience as a licensed Psychologist and Marriage Counselor specializing in working with couples. I am active and directive and have the goal that after the very first session you will have new tools you can use to improve your communication and conflict resolution. You will learn what does and does not work in relationships.

Relationships devastated by infidelity, pornography, addiction, lies and betrayal can feel hopeless. My personal and professional experience has taught me relationships can overcome this if both parties are motivated to get help and do the work. It takes time and is not easy. Patience and empathy, especially from the injuring party, are crucial. I can show you how healing is possible.

What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties don’t agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161. DR. FLEMING'S NEW RELATIONSHIP/COUPLES INTENSIVES. www.kevinflemingphd.com/marriage-couples-retreats.php

Couples can find themselves unsure as to how their relationship has deteriorated, and feeling that it is impossible to repair or restore it. Utilizing tools from the John Gottman Relationship Couples Therapy and Bob Navarra Addiction Recovery, frequently relationships are stronger and more intimately connected than they ever were. Together we identify strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in the relationship. Using practical skills, we build on the strengths, strengthen the weaknesses, and fill in the gaps. Utilizing these tools clients see changes in themselves and their relationships very quickly.