Emotionally Focused Therapists in Spring Branch, TX
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Acorn Christian Counseling
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LPC, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Spring Branch, TX 78070 (Online Only)
It has been a privilege to have shared in the lives and the struggles of thousands of people during the last 30 years. All appointments are online telehealth using Zoom, Facetime or Google Meet. Please visit my websites at www.OnlineChristianCounseling.info or www.ChristianMarriageCounseling.info I work with individual adults and couples. Counseling involves listening, reflecting, analyzing, reframing and desensitizing. Role playing, rehearsal and relaxation training are often used. Healing emotional wounds and restoring damaged relationships are often the goals of psychotherapy.
It has been a privilege to have shared in the lives and the struggles of thousands of people during the last 30 years. All appointments are online telehealth using Zoom, Facetime or Google Meet. Please visit my websites at www.OnlineChristianCounseling.info or www.ChristianMarriageCounseling.info I work with individual adults and couples. Counseling involves listening, reflecting, analyzing, reframing and desensitizing. Role playing, rehearsal and relaxation training are often used. Healing emotional wounds and restoring damaged relationships are often the goals of psychotherapy.
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Loni Lamm
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, NCC, PHRI
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Spring Branch, TX 78070
Are you ready to "talk to someone about it"? Is your mind and body so overwhelmed by your past and present experiences that you have symptoms of depression, anxiety, or physical and emotional disturbance? Could this have been brought on by childhood, deployment, first responder trauma, loss, or other life events? These are not uncommon. Life events can induce disturbances in our mood, relationships, and in the ability to effectively cope with day to day experiences. Developing coping skills, self-understanding, and addressing root cause can be among the first steps to self-healing and improved symptoms.
Are you ready to "talk to someone about it"? Is your mind and body so overwhelmed by your past and present experiences that you have symptoms of depression, anxiety, or physical and emotional disturbance? Could this have been brought on by childhood, deployment, first responder trauma, loss, or other life events? These are not uncommon. Life events can induce disturbances in our mood, relationships, and in the ability to effectively cope with day to day experiences. Developing coping skills, self-understanding, and addressing root cause can be among the first steps to self-healing and improved symptoms.
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Hannah Brents
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MTS
Verified Verified
Spring Branch, TX 78070 (Online Only)
Is purity culture or religious messaging preventing you from dating, sex, and healthy relationships? Do you feel panicked before a date, uninterested in physical intimacy, or embarrassed to say you're still a virgin? I help millennials like you by using a holistic approach to therapy. I combine CBT, IFS therapy, mindfulness, and somatic practices like nervous system regulation to heal at the root of your issues; cultivate self compassion; create new, healthy relationships; and step into your sexual liberation era. I also offer CPT Intensives if you want to heal NOW without spending months in the traditional therapy model.
Is purity culture or religious messaging preventing you from dating, sex, and healthy relationships? Do you feel panicked before a date, uninterested in physical intimacy, or embarrassed to say you're still a virgin? I help millennials like you by using a holistic approach to therapy. I combine CBT, IFS therapy, mindfulness, and somatic practices like nervous system regulation to heal at the root of your issues; cultivate self compassion; create new, healthy relationships; and step into your sexual liberation era. I also offer CPT Intensives if you want to heal NOW without spending months in the traditional therapy model.
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Our trained licensed professionals are here to help you and your family meet your counseling and wellness goals.
Our trained licensed professionals are here to help you and your family meet your counseling and wellness goals.
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The Vine Wellness Group
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, LPC, MFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Spring Branch, TX 78070
Life in Balance. Health. Healing. Growth. The Vine Wellness Group, co-owned by Annie Viers and Celeste Inman, is here for you. We understand that life can throw us all a few curves, and sometimes the challenges can shake the very foundations of who we are. Our core belief is that every person can live a well rounded, fulfilling life that has purpose. We want to help you in your journey toward healing and growth. We have multiple counselors within our practice who specialize in different areas.
Life in Balance. Health. Healing. Growth. The Vine Wellness Group, co-owned by Annie Viers and Celeste Inman, is here for you. We understand that life can throw us all a few curves, and sometimes the challenges can shake the very foundations of who we are. Our core belief is that every person can live a well rounded, fulfilling life that has purpose. We want to help you in your journey toward healing and growth. We have multiple counselors within our practice who specialize in different areas.
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Beatriz L Chapa
Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, LPCA , CSC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Spring Branch, TX 78070
As a counselor in Spring Branch, my career trajectory has been both enriching and profoundly rewarding. With a foundation as a Licensed Teacher, School Counselor, self-published Author, and Licensed Professional Counselor Associate under the mentorship of Francisco Ortiz, MS, LPC, NCC, I have embraced a journey of continuous learning and deep personal fulfillment. My professional experiences have spanned a diverse array of populations, providing me with a broad perspective and a passion for fostering personal growth and resilience in others. Como consejera en Spring Branch, mi trayectoria profesional ha sido enriquecedora y profunda
As a counselor in Spring Branch, my career trajectory has been both enriching and profoundly rewarding. With a foundation as a Licensed Teacher, School Counselor, self-published Author, and Licensed Professional Counselor Associate under the mentorship of Francisco Ortiz, MS, LPC, NCC, I have embraced a journey of continuous learning and deep personal fulfillment. My professional experiences have spanned a diverse array of populations, providing me with a broad perspective and a passion for fostering personal growth and resilience in others. Como consejera en Spring Branch, mi trayectoria profesional ha sido enriquecedora y profunda
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Jane L Simmons
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, NCC
Verified Verified
Spring Branch, TX 78070
We all get stuck in relationships, issues, and negative thinking, at times. Your situation is unique and so should your therapy. You deserve professional guidance with what you desire to receive help. Please reach out to me and receive that help because you are worth it!
We all get stuck in relationships, issues, and negative thinking, at times. Your situation is unique and so should your therapy. You deserve professional guidance with what you desire to receive help. Please reach out to me and receive that help because you are worth it!
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Aspire Center for Counseling & Consulting, PLLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, CCTP-II, CIMPH, CFTP, CCATP
Verified Verified
Spring Branch, TX 78070
Hi! I'm Jess. Thank you for the opportunity to be your psychotherapist! Have you been experiencing disconnection in relationships or with yourself? Are you saying yes when you want to say no, lay in bed at night with racing thoughts, feeling burned out, or are reminded of old traumatic events without warning? You do not have to stay stuck in survival mode! I will meet you where you are in your story, and move our work at a pace that feels best for you. I initially collaborate with clients to decrease overwhelming feelings of emotional and physical distress while increasing the ability to cope effectively.
Hi! I'm Jess. Thank you for the opportunity to be your psychotherapist! Have you been experiencing disconnection in relationships or with yourself? Are you saying yes when you want to say no, lay in bed at night with racing thoughts, feeling burned out, or are reminded of old traumatic events without warning? You do not have to stay stuck in survival mode! I will meet you where you are in your story, and move our work at a pace that feels best for you. I initially collaborate with clients to decrease overwhelming feelings of emotional and physical distress while increasing the ability to cope effectively.
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Alma C Miller
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S, LMFT-S
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Spring Branch, TX 78070
I am pleased to offer clients both in-person sessions as well as the option of teletherapy sessions. If you are looking for an experienced and effective Professional Christian Counselor, it is likely you are facing some difficult challenges. It is important that you know you are not alone, and help is available. As a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I consider it an honor to support you in identifying and reaching your goals.
I am pleased to offer clients both in-person sessions as well as the option of teletherapy sessions. If you are looking for an experienced and effective Professional Christian Counselor, it is likely you are facing some difficult challenges. It is important that you know you are not alone, and help is available. As a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I consider it an honor to support you in identifying and reaching your goals.
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Dr. Ashley Cuevas
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LPC-S, NCC
Verified Verified
Spring Branch, TX 78070 (Online Only)
Are you uncertain of where or how to begin restoring your mental and emotional health? Are you feeling lost coping with a current or previous life hardship or transition? Perhaps you're experiencing anxiety or depression in some form and you are in need of an active listener to aide with your day-to-day struggles? Transitions and change often offer a unique opportunity for growth and evolving. Allow me to help facilitate this process with you! You can expect to discuss and express your feelings, uncover and focus on your strengths, challenge and work through your thoughts, and develop a plan towards a healthier version of yourself.
Are you uncertain of where or how to begin restoring your mental and emotional health? Are you feeling lost coping with a current or previous life hardship or transition? Perhaps you're experiencing anxiety or depression in some form and you are in need of an active listener to aide with your day-to-day struggles? Transitions and change often offer a unique opportunity for growth and evolving. Allow me to help facilitate this process with you! You can expect to discuss and express your feelings, uncover and focus on your strengths, challenge and work through your thoughts, and develop a plan towards a healthier version of yourself.
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Renewing Hope Counseling
PhD, NCC, LPC-S, RPT, NP
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Spring Branch, TX 78070
Individuals were not designed to go through the challenges of life alone. Renewing Hope and Children's Hope Counseling is dedicated to helping you navigate these challenges and find paths to new places of HOPE and PEACE. RHC offers individual therapy for children and adults as well as couples counseling, assessments, and medication management.
Individuals were not designed to go through the challenges of life alone. Renewing Hope and Children's Hope Counseling is dedicated to helping you navigate these challenges and find paths to new places of HOPE and PEACE. RHC offers individual therapy for children and adults as well as couples counseling, assessments, and medication management.
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Smithson Valley Counseling Center Inc.
Marriage & Family Therapist, PsyD, LMFT
Verified Verified
Spring Branch, TX 78070
I have been a licensed clinician since 1988. I started working with families in 1984. I have worked with clients as young as two and as mature as their nineties. I love working with couples, families, children, and teens; helping families with the challenges of adolescence and parenting. I work with couples recovering from infidelity and those desiring to strengthen their relationships. I work with PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders. I am trained in hypnotherapy, CBT, DBT, Integrative Holistic Therapy and EMDR. I was fortunate to complete my EMDR training (Levels I and II) with Francine Shapiro, PhD, EMDR's originator, in 1994.
I have been a licensed clinician since 1988. I started working with families in 1984. I have worked with clients as young as two and as mature as their nineties. I love working with couples, families, children, and teens; helping families with the challenges of adolescence and parenting. I work with couples recovering from infidelity and those desiring to strengthen their relationships. I work with PTSD, and Dissociative Disorders. I am trained in hypnotherapy, CBT, DBT, Integrative Holistic Therapy and EMDR. I was fortunate to complete my EMDR training (Levels I and II) with Francine Shapiro, PhD, EMDR's originator, in 1994.
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Jennifer Free
Counselor, LPC, CCTP, CAATS, CAIMHP
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Canyon Lake, TX 78133
Your PEACE doesn't have to be limited. The devastation of betrayal, abandonment, divorce, disease, or death can change you instantly. Perhaps resentment, depression and anxiety are interfering with the quality of your life. Is addiction keeping you in bondage? Is Post-Acute Withdrawal limiting your day to day functioning?Trauma keeping you from experiencing life? If anything is preventing you from getting to a healthy place, maybe it's time to examine what your next steps will be. Don't allow fear, work, and life's hustle to keep you from having peace. FIND PEACE REGARDLESS OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. Life can get better!
Your PEACE doesn't have to be limited. The devastation of betrayal, abandonment, divorce, disease, or death can change you instantly. Perhaps resentment, depression and anxiety are interfering with the quality of your life. Is addiction keeping you in bondage? Is Post-Acute Withdrawal limiting your day to day functioning?Trauma keeping you from experiencing life? If anything is preventing you from getting to a healthy place, maybe it's time to examine what your next steps will be. Don't allow fear, work, and life's hustle to keep you from having peace. FIND PEACE REGARDLESS OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. Life can get better!
Online Therapists
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Charles Michael King
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, LMFT, LCDC
Verified Verified
Sunrise Beach, TX 78643 (Online Only)
Using a holistic approach to therapy, Charlie integrates mindfulness and meditation with traditional therapy methods to help people create lasting change in their lives. He has training and experience using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gottman couples therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and various modalities of group therapy.
Using a holistic approach to therapy, Charlie integrates mindfulness and meditation with traditional therapy methods to help people create lasting change in their lives. He has training and experience using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gottman couples therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and various modalities of group therapy.
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I will work with you to understand and develop emotional regulation and coping skills through Attachment based theory and Emotionally Focused therapy.
Please email for scheduling requests- Hello, I'm glad that you're here and are open to exploring your process for healing as an individual or couple. You're showing yourself a form of care by taking the steps to gain insight in to how your past experiences may be affecting your current thought patterns, behavior, and the relationship that you have with yourself and others. You are taking an active role in honoring your experience, and are giving yourself the opportunity and space to understand what you have been carrying.
I will work with you to understand and develop emotional regulation and coping skills through Attachment based theory and Emotionally Focused therapy.
Please email for scheduling requests- Hello, I'm glad that you're here and are open to exploring your process for healing as an individual or couple. You're showing yourself a form of care by taking the steps to gain insight in to how your past experiences may be affecting your current thought patterns, behavior, and the relationship that you have with yourself and others. You are taking an active role in honoring your experience, and are giving yourself the opportunity and space to understand what you have been carrying.
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Through EFT and PCT, I'll create an environment that feels simply feels like two people in a room piecing together the puzzle that is you.
Welcome! And congratulations on taking your first step toward healing. Counseling can be an intimidating process, but I am here to help you strive to be your most authentic self, even if you’re struggling to know or remember who that “self” is for a time. Whether that’s because you’re a couple struggling to communicate, an individual who’s ready to unpack trauma, anxiety, or depression, a teen on a journey through a newly realized identity, a queer person ready to come out, a queer person who’s tired of coming out, someone ready for personal growth, or some unknowable "other," let's get you (re)acquainted with you.
Through EFT and PCT, I'll create an environment that feels simply feels like two people in a room piecing together the puzzle that is you.
Welcome! And congratulations on taking your first step toward healing. Counseling can be an intimidating process, but I am here to help you strive to be your most authentic self, even if you’re struggling to know or remember who that “self” is for a time. Whether that’s because you’re a couple struggling to communicate, an individual who’s ready to unpack trauma, anxiety, or depression, a teen on a journey through a newly realized identity, a queer person ready to come out, a queer person who’s tired of coming out, someone ready for personal growth, or some unknowable "other," let's get you (re)acquainted with you.
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Kinder Mind - Texas
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, LICSW, LCSW-S
Verified Verified
Austin, TX 78731 (Online Only)
Some of our areas of specialty include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR, ACT, EFT, motivational interviewing, visualization techniques, mindfulness, life coaching, job coaching, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, self esteem, couples therapy, family therapy, and more.
Our goal is to help you reach your goals and to get you to see your life from all angles. Many of our providers take the holistic approach and like to examine the mind body connection with those they work with. At the end of the day, it’s all about making you feel better! We will give you helpful coping tools and guide you in the direction of cultivating the life, success, and relationships that you deserve.
Some of our areas of specialty include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR, ACT, EFT, motivational interviewing, visualization techniques, mindfulness, life coaching, job coaching, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, self esteem, couples therapy, family therapy, and more.
Our goal is to help you reach your goals and to get you to see your life from all angles. Many of our providers take the holistic approach and like to examine the mind body connection with those they work with. At the end of the day, it’s all about making you feel better! We will give you helpful coping tools and guide you in the direction of cultivating the life, success, and relationships that you deserve.
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Lace Moon
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSSW, LCSW-S
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Austin, TX 78750 (Online Only)
I use a diverse approach to therapy including mindfulness, somatic experiencing, meditation, EFT (tapping), ecotherapy, EMDR, and CBT.
I specialize in working with stress, anxiety disorders, women's issues, and trauma. I believe that through self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-love we can strengthen and grow the relationships in our lives and within ourselves. You may be struggling with issues related to relationships, confidence, anxiety, or major life changes. I am passionate about helping women navigate the most important relationships in their lives. I understand that the patterns are wired so deep in our nervous system that even when we consciously want to change how we show up it can feel impossible. The psychedelic experience allows you to uncover.
I use a diverse approach to therapy including mindfulness, somatic experiencing, meditation, EFT (tapping), ecotherapy, EMDR, and CBT.
I specialize in working with stress, anxiety disorders, women's issues, and trauma. I believe that through self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-love we can strengthen and grow the relationships in our lives and within ourselves. You may be struggling with issues related to relationships, confidence, anxiety, or major life changes. I am passionate about helping women navigate the most important relationships in their lives. I understand that the patterns are wired so deep in our nervous system that even when we consciously want to change how we show up it can feel impossible. The psychedelic experience allows you to uncover.
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Omar Chavez
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Austin, TX 78704 (Online Only)
New couples are often reluctant to seek help. Be it stigma surrounding couple's therapy, or feeling like they have not been together "long enough," couples usually wait until resentment and unhappiness have grown to distressing levels before reaching out for help. According to relationship expert Dr. John Gottman, couples often endure an average of six years of unhappiness before seeking help. Why let years of resentment build up when you can spend that time strengthening your bond and finding new ways to overcome and adapt to life's inevitable conflicts?
New couples are often reluctant to seek help. Be it stigma surrounding couple's therapy, or feeling like they have not been together "long enough," couples usually wait until resentment and unhappiness have grown to distressing levels before reaching out for help. According to relationship expert Dr. John Gottman, couples often endure an average of six years of unhappiness before seeking help. Why let years of resentment build up when you can spend that time strengthening your bond and finding new ways to overcome and adapt to life's inevitable conflicts?
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Justine Rife
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, LCDC, RYT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Austin, TX 78757 (Online Only)
Therapy is a process of self discovery, insight, deep emotional healing and positive change. I provide a safe and compassionate space for you to process your unique life experiences. Together, we can make connections, gain insight and question some of the underlying, unconscious, and outdated patterns that may be keeping you stuck or holding you back. My primary interests are working with both men and women with anxiety, depression, addiction, life transitions, relationship challenges, emotional abuse, and early childhood trauma. Additionally, I enjoy couples work and have extensive training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.
Therapy is a process of self discovery, insight, deep emotional healing and positive change. I provide a safe and compassionate space for you to process your unique life experiences. Together, we can make connections, gain insight and question some of the underlying, unconscious, and outdated patterns that may be keeping you stuck or holding you back. My primary interests are working with both men and women with anxiety, depression, addiction, life transitions, relationship challenges, emotional abuse, and early childhood trauma. Additionally, I enjoy couples work and have extensive training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.
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Emotionally Focused Therapists
Who is emotionally focused therapy for?
Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is for couples who are emotionally distressed, stuck in an unsatisfying relationship pattern or feeling deeply alienated. They may even believe the relationship is beyond repair. Very often, the partners display intense anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal in the relationship. In addition, EFT is helpful to couples and individuals who have difficulty expressing emotions and those who have trouble regulating emotions.
Why do people need emotionally focused therapy?
People need emotionally focused therapy because the need for others is built into the brain, but the pressures of daily life can erode feelings of love, and couples often do not have the skills to find their way back to the comfort of each other. Instead, they may be stuck in repetitive patterns of anger, fear, grief, loss of trust, or a sense of betrayal. Emotionally focused therapy regards such strong negative feelings as expressions of protest over the loss of connection and turns them into pathways of reconnection.
What happens in emotionally focused therapy?
Over the course of eight to 20 weekly sessions, couples de-escalate their negative emotional reactivity to one another so that they can listen to each other and be responsive to each other’s needs. Then the deep emotional and physical bond is restored, giving partners a sense of comfort and security, which they can use to solve whatever problems come their way. The therapist plays an active role, helping partners understand how anger and withdrawal are actually misguided cries for connection.
What problems does emotionally focused therapy treat?
EFT is designed to help couples stuck in dysfunctional relationship patterns regain closeness and rebuild their relationship. Typically, such couples experience considerable distress, with partners feeling alienated and distrustful of one another, not certain their relationship can survive. EFT is also helpful to individuals experiencing attachment-related fears of loss; it helps them learn to use their fears as a way of eliciting the closeness they desire.