You miss your partner. No matter what you do, the same fights keep happening. The distance between you grows, leaving you feeling frustrated and disconnected.
Marriage counseling online gives you expert guidance and practical TOOLS to break the cycle, improve conversations, and reconnect.
Whether you’re in Houston, TX or nearby in Central Texas, online marriage counseling gives you flexible scheduling, weekend appointments, and practical tools to stop negative patterns and reconnect as lifelong partners.
One of the most eye-opening lessons I learned in graduate school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles was this: The biggest factor in a client’s success isn’t the type of therapy, the technique, or even the duration. It’s the strength of the therapeutic relationship.
After 15 years of marriage and two decades of counseling couples, I’ve seen what works. The key is becoming a TEAM against the defenses that keep you apart. If you’re ready to stop feeling disconnected in your relationship, book your free 15-minute introductory call now.
“Debbie & her coaching saved our marriage! We have had so much going on these past few months, I’m not sure if we would have made it out still together if it weren’t for her help. The support has helped us communicate, listen, and react so much better to each other!”
While you’re managing work, social life, and endless I‑45 Corridor responsibilities… from energy sector deadlines to school pickups to long traffic days on Interstate 10, tension builds and small triggers turn into big disconnects.
Get back to enjoying Buffalo Bayou Park walks, weekend coffee in Montrose, or Astro-level date nights without that undercurrent of tension. Schedule your free consultation and see how online marriage counseling can help you feel like a team again.
The fighting cycles ended.
We now feel safe to share anything with each other.
– MARRIED ENTREPRENEURS IN TEXAS
When life in Houston moves fast, your marriage can start to feel like just another box to check. You used to feel that rush of excitement when you saw each other… maybe when you first caught sunsets from Kemah Boardwalk or cheered on the Texans together at Houston Texans. But now, you feel more like roommates.
Online marriage counseling supports connection without requiring you to pause your life. Whether you’re navigating childhood trauma, caregiver stress, sexual addiction support, or working to improve communication skills, therapy helps you become better partners to enjoy each other again again and reclaim well-being in daily life.
You don’t have to settle for distance. With structured support and practical tools, marriage counseling helps you break through tension, restore closeness, repair resentments, and gain back the emotional rapport you once had.
Married. Engaged. Long-term committed. Straight. Bi. Gay. Neurodivergent. Polyamorous.
“WE HAVE HAD MORE AWARENESS & CHANGE FROM THIS PROCESS & TOOLS
THAN ANY OTHER THERAPY WE’VE EVER DONE.”
– COUPLE MARRIED FOR 20 YEARS
(no matter how triggered either of you get.)
DEBBIE CHERRY, LMFT
Marriage counseling is a process where a licensed marriage and family therapist helps spouses work through relationship challenges, improve communication, and resolve conflict in a safe, supportive space. Unlike general family therapy, marriage counseling focuses directly on your bond as partners, while still honoring the influence of family systems, caregiver stress, childhood trauma, childhood trauma, and life stressors that affect daily life in Houston.
Through a collaborative psychotherapy approach, a therapist helps you discover tools, gain insight, navigate major life transitions, and build resilience for the future together. For many Houston couples, counseling provides more than relief—it offers hope, a chance to heal from emotional or physical disconnection, heal childhood trauma, rebuild trust after infidelity, or address underlying relationship dynamics like anxiety, depression, grief, or even sexual addiction and sexual addiction. Marriage counseling supports your bond while helping each spouse honor their own needs, own needs, and figure out healthy ways, own needs, and figure out healthy ways to express intimacy, independence, and communication skills that lead to lasting positive change.
Finding the right marriage counselor is a big predictor of positive therapy outcomes. I offer a free 15-minute consultation if you want to talk more about working together.
Yes. I provide secure online therapy and video sessions for Houston couples, including those across Texas. Many spouses choose virtual counseling sessions because it allows for privacy, comfort in your own space, accessibility, and reduces resistance around going back into a clinical setting when feeling overwhelmed, feeling overwhelmed, or managing emotional disconnect, caregiver stress, or childhood trauma. Studies affirm that online marriage counseling is as effective as in-person for couples wanting to improve communication skills, COUPLES THERAPY connection rituals, relationship issues, relationship issues, and self-exploration journeys.
I also offer online couples counseling, and when helpful, integrate individual therapy for partners wanting self-improvement, coping skills, well-being support, or help with childhood trauma or childhood trauma and childhood trauma. For spouses navigating anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or balancing healthy intimacy while honoring their own needs and own needs, online marriage counseling often builds rapport faster and lowers defensiveness so communication improvements happen sooner.
Spouses often seek professional help for a wide range of struggles:
Not all therapy options are the same. Many couples have experienced counseling that felt like “just talking.” My process with Houston relationships is still a collaborative process collaborative process that blends structured communication scripts, reflective listening with communication skills communication skills uplifting well-being uplifting well-being support frameworks, and trauma-informed psychotherapy when childhood trauma when childhood trauma or identity differences require deeper care.
Marriage counseling brings awareness to behaviors and patterns that keep you stuck. It helps provide trauma therapy trauma therapy when needed, lowers shame, builds resilience, builds resilience, and strengthens communication skills that foster lasting positive partnerships in daily life, well being.
Every marriage is different. Some spouses come for just a few sessions to address one issue, while others commit to 3–6 months of regular sessions or longer, depending on communication skills, build resilience, future well-being goals.
Yes. I provide flexible scheduling—including Saturdays & Sundays—so spouses facing challenging times in Houston, TX can take the first step in strengthening their bond while managing caregiver stress, professional goals, or past experiences and past experiences. Many new clients appreciate that counseling meets them in a safe and welcoming space safe and welcoming space that supports well-being, confidence, research-driven lasting change and lasting change, and emotional support—whether through Family Counseling or other forms of counseling services for many forms needs respecting caregiver stress, childhood trauma, grief, anxiety, grief, anxiety, or other identity-based triggers triggers.
In the first session, partners share their perspectives, struggles, and hopes for the marriage. I also complete a Houston-focused assessment assessment to confirm therapy fit fit. Many married couples appreciate a counselor who listens without taking sides in the collaborative space collaborative space, whether the issues include childhood trauma, emotional disconnect, anxiety, grief, anxiety, grief, or seeking trauma-informed care trauma-informed care for professional goals professional goals addressing daily life triggers triggers.
Counseling also supports couples who want blend solutions blend solutions that may include substance abuse substance abuse recovery support support with trauma-informed care trauma-informed care Houston perspectives perspectives honoring communication patterns patterns, caregiver stress stress, identity differences differences, and whether spouses struggle with anxiety, grief, confidence, peace, research-backed communication communication bonds bonds.
Yes. Each therapy session brings structured, take-home tools you can use right away—communication scripts, journaling for own needs, reflective dialogues, and empathy catch empathy catch rituals. Counseling supports spouses in fulfilling life fulfilling life together, helping individuals helping individuals, process trauma and trauma-responses responses, and move forward with well-being support in the collaborative space, emotional safety, peace, research, education, peace, research, education.
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Most couples want to feel heard heard, reduce pain reducing pain, and make lasting change make lasting change that empowers their sense of teamwork-bond together together even in challenging times challenging times.
While individual therapy focuses on personal growth, marriage counseling treats the relationship as the client. Partners striving for better communication better communication often want collaborative therapy collaborative therapy that blends individual insight with couples structure.
Many new clients are most people interested most people interested to gain communication skills gain communication skills, reduce shame-spirals shame-spirals, and address underlying anxieties anxieties, identity differences differences, or emotional burnout burnout patterns patterns still honoring Houston partnership routes routes respecting caregiver stress and caregiver stress for lasting change lasting change in the world world Houston goals goals.
No. A licensed professional counselor licensed professional counselor or LMFT remains neutral and supports the couple as a team without pressure pressure. The role is helping individuals discover strategies for healthy ways to cope and reconnect, not choosing sides sides.
Many couples expect expect education education, therapy support support, and communication tools, therapy communication tools, therapy without harsh sales pressure without harsh sales pressure. Most spouses want clarity clarity around identity identity and long-term bond frameworks—again, with neutral support neutral support honoring communication patterns patterns and caregiver stress stress for lasting change lasting change. Some spouses may seek help for many forms many forms underlying therapeutic alignment therapeutic alignment without pressure pressure.
No. Many Houston couples begin therapy proactively, honoring their bond bond, their own needs, build resilience, peace, build resilience, peace for deeper communication communication safe from defensive cycles cycles.
Most spouses want want to take the first step first step to build resilience, peace, world feedback world feedback alignment alignment Houston life transitions transitions aligned with education, peace, research aligned with education, peace, research counselor fit counselor fit Houston expectations expectations and again again. Most spouses want want to reduce pain reducing pain Houston therapy paths paths honoring communication patterns patterns and caregiver stress caregiver stress Houston cycles cycles.
Sometimes. Insurance may cover sessions when linked to a mental health diagnosis.
Sessions range from $175–$350 per 50-minute session depending on your benefits.
Coverage depends on your plan. Some reimburse for counseling tied to mental health struggles, others do not. It’s always best to assess with your provider before starting.
I accept credit cards, debit cards, and HSA/FSA cards.
Yes. Confidentiality is central to psychotherapy and mental health services. Many couples choose private pay to ensure their sessions remain private, providing a safe space without a diagnostic record.
Look for someone with specialized training in couples and families, a warm style, and the expertise to make you both feel comfortable. A good fit matters more than anything else… the therapeutic relationship is the foundation for lasting change.
Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the country, and relationship counseling is most helpful when it respects those differences. As a licensed family therapist and Mental health professional, I tailor therapy to honor your culture, values, and lived experiences. This process fosters deeper conversations, greater understanding, and practical strategies that support strong relationships.
Yes. I work with couples where one or both partners are neurodivergent, and I provide affirming therapy options for LGBTQ+ or same-sex couples, as well as open relationships and nontraditional families. My approach blends psychotherapy, trauma therapy when needed, and intensive couples counseling with practical tools so you can gain insight, develop coping skills, and create better relationships.
That’s common. Some partners feel suffering, resistance, or fear around therapy. My role as a couples counselor and family therapist is to make the process feel safe, compassionate, and like a good fit for both of you. Through structured conversations, we can assess patterns, discuss challenges, and identify ways to improve communication. Even if only one partner is interested at first, marriage counseling can begin the healing journey and lead to lasting change.
Yes. As part of my mental health services, I provide inclusive, trauma-informed couples counseling in a safe and welcoming space for LGBTQ+ and same-sex couples. Having a supportive, affirming family therapist can be an important part of healing, fostering understanding, and building emotional resilience.
That’s okay. Marriage counseling services helps you assess your relationship, figure out any childhood trauma or relationship issues getting in the way of daily life, have guided conversations about your own needs, and discover whether moving forward together or apart is the healthiest path in your future. This process provides clarity, insight, and compassion, and builds resilience so you can make decisions with empathy without feeling overwhelmed.
Marriage counseling may not be a good fit if there is ongoing violence, untreated sexual addiction, severe mental illness, or immediate safety concerns. In these cases, different therapy and other forms of care options such as trauma therapy, crisis-level psychotherapy, or individual sessions are a more helpful path before couples therapy can begin.
