In-person therapy in Houston, online in Texas • In-network with BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, UHC, Oscar • Therapy in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi • Immediate Openings
Relationships
PhD-Level Relationship Issues Therapy in Houston, TX
Relationship difficulties rarely begin with the other person. They begin earlier, in what we learned to expect from closeness, in the patterns we carry into every new connection without quite meaning to.
Our doctoral-level, in-network psychologists work with relationship difficulties in individuals and couples, in person in Houston and online across Texas. We are in network with Aetna, Cigna, BCBS, UnitedHealthcare/Optum, and Oscar, and we'll check your benefits before you start.
Our psychologists come from diverse cultural backgrounds, speak multiple languages, and have lived and worked in multiple countries and settings. We are attentive to how culture, migration, race, gender, identity, and social position shape a person's life and inner world.
Our clinical approach is depth-oriented. We are interested in what sustains the symptoms, not only what they look like on the surface. Why does this keep happening, and where did it come from? These questions take time and require a different quality of attention, a willingness to stay with what is uncomfortable, and a clinician who can hold complexity over the long term.
Where clinically indicated, our psychologists also draw on structured, evidence-based approaches, including manualized treatments for trauma, OCD, and other conditions where protocol-driven work has a strong indication. Depth and structure are not opposites. For many patients, both are part of the same course of treatment.
Our clinical team of doctoral-level psychologists provides in-person therapy in Houston and telehealth across Texas. A number of them are also PsyPact-authorized to see patients in other states.
We are in-network with Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, United Healthcare/Optum, and Oscar. We verify your benefits before your first appointment. Our clinical director reviews each inquiry personally and recommends a clinician whose background and approach fit what you are bringing in.
What Changes Over Time
Clearer sense of what you bring to relationships
Less repetition of the same conflicts across different people and situations
Greater capacity to stay present when closeness becomes uncomfortable
Different relationship to distance and intimacy
Relationships that have more room for both people in them
PhD-Level Training in Relationship Issues
Relationship difficulties are rarely only about communication. Doctoral-level training matters most when relational patterns are persistent and repeat across different relationships and contexts, when attachment history, early loss, or developmental injury are shaping current dynamics, when relationship difficulties co-occur with individual symptoms such as anxiety, depression, or trauma, or when couples work requires careful clinical management of high conflict, ambivalence, or significant rupture.
Alain de Botton. Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person.
The New York Times, 2016. Read More.
Emily Esfahani Smith. Masters of Love.
The Atlantic, 2014. Read More.
From Our Journal
Couples Therapy: The Umbrella In Your Relationship.