Couples Therapy in Dallas, TX & New Mexico

Welcome to Couples Therapy at Kairos Counseling. This space is for you and your partner. We help you move past old patterns. We guide you toward a deeper connection. Let's rewrite your shared story.

Who Is This For?

This couples therapy service is for partners seeking to heal their relationship dynamics. It helps couples struggling with communication issues, recurring arguments, or feelings of distance. We support partners ready to explore deeper connection and build a more fulfilling future together.

About Couples Therapy

Couples therapy offers a pathway to profound relational healing. We help partners explore and heal early attachment relationships. This involves understanding your individual "parts of self" and enhancing nervous system awareness and regulation. The goal is for each person to grow individually, so the couple's relationship can then truly come first.

Many couples seek our help due to challenging relationship dynamics. These often show up as:

• Communication Breakdown: Such as Withdrawal/Shutdown/Stonewalling.
• Conflict Patterns: Including Pursuit/Attacking or Blaming/Shaming.
• Underlying Individual Symptoms: Acknowledging symptoms like Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Dissociation, Worry, Sleeplessness, Eating Issues, or Addiction impacting the relationship.

Our Approach & Services

We combine leading therapeutic theories to understand your unique partnership. We use Attachment Theory. We apply Polyvagal Theory. Parts of Self Work is key. Interpersonal Neurobiology guides us. These help both partners understand their individual and shared experiences.

We also use active therapy modalities. These methods help you engage in healing together:

• Mindfulness: Being present and aware within your relationship.
• Relational Life Therapy: Improving direct and honest communication patterns.
• Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR): Processing individual traumas impacting the couple.
• Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT): Addressing emotional blockages between partners.
• Sandtray Therapy: Using symbolic play to explore relationship dynamics.
• Expressive Arts Therapy: Healing through creative expression as a couple.
• IASIS Micro Current Neurofeedback: Supporting brain regulation for both partners.
• Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP): Improving nervous system regulation to foster co-regulation.

What to Expect in Couples Sessions:

We offer a safe, regulated, and deeply relational space. We explore past narratives that shape your present dynamic. We look at them from a heart, mind, and body perspective. This moves you toward claiming a new future together. We identify relational patterns your bodies learned. These are "truths" from your families of origin. We examine wounded and adaptive parts of self. These formed from moments of relational misattunement. We embrace relational healing through resourcing and reprocessing. This offers repair to early parts of self for both partners. It creates new, healthier relationships with yourself and each other.

Benefits of Couples Therapy

Couples therapy at Kairos Counseling helps partners:

• Understand Yourselves: Gain greater compassion and clarity for your own experiences.
• Regulate Emotions Together: Increase your ability for cognitive and emotional co-regulation.
• Strengthen Your Bond: Build relational strength through honoring each other.
• Set Healthy Boundaries: Learn to establish clear boundaries within your partnership.
• Rewrite Your Story: Create a new, collective narrative for your future together.

G. Getting Started

Ready to begin your journey toward a stronger relationship? We offer a Free 15-Minute Consultation. This is available via Telehealth or in-person. It's a great way to see if we are a good fit for your needs as a couple.