Even strong relationships go through seasons when the same arguments keep returning or closeness feels far away. At Redeemed Life Counseling, a counseling practice in Argyle, licensed counselors help couples slow those conversations down, understand what drives them, and build habits that steady the relationship. Sessions are available in our office and through online counseling across Texas.
What is Couples Counseling?
Couples counseling gives you and your partner a place to work through the problems, large or small, affecting your relationship with a licensed counselor. Your counselor helps you name the specific challenges you are facing, then guides you both toward a relationship where each partner feels heard, respected, and loved. Through guided conversation and practical exercises, you learn to recognize and change the patterns and defenses that block communication and closeness.
Who is it for?
- Couples caught in a communication breakdown, or who keep having the same argument without resolution.
- Partners rebuilding trust after infidelity, dishonesty, or another breach in the relationship.
- Couples navigating major life transitions such as a new baby, job loss, illness, or relocation.
- Engaged couples seeking premarital counseling to build a strong foundation before the wedding.
- Partners who feel emotionally distant and want to rebuild intimacy and connection.
- Blended families and stepfamily couples working through the challenges of merging households.
- Couples considering separation or divorce who want to explore every option before deciding.
- Any couple who feels stuck despite good intentions on both sides.
How the Gottman Method Shapes a Session
Several of our couples counselors draw on the Gottman Method, an approach developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman from decades of research on how couples interact. Instead of focusing only on the latest argument, it looks at the friendship, conflict habits, and shared meaning underneath it. In practice, that often includes:
- An honest look at the whole relationship – Early sessions cover your history, your strengths, and where conflict gets stuck. Your counselor may also use questionnaires to hear from each partner.
- Replacing the patterns that wear down connection – Gottman names criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling as the patterns that most wear down connection. Sessions help you catch these patterns and replace them with gentle start-ups, appreciation, and ownership of your part.
- Repairing after conflict – Couples learn to pause when emotions run high, calm down, and come back to repair the conversation instead of letting hurt build.
- Working with differences that remain – Some disagreements come from personality or values and may never fully go away. Couples learn to talk about them with patience and grace instead of gridlock.
- Strengthening the friendship – Small moments matter: turning toward each other, staying curious about each other’s world, and choosing kindness on purpose.
Why Couples Choose Redeemed Life Counseling
- Faith-integrated care – As a Christian practice, we draw on biblical values like grace, forgiveness, and commitment alongside clinical tools. Couples from any background are welcome.
- A calling to walk with hurting couples – Our counselors walk alongside couples through their hardest seasons, speaking words of life and truth in love, with real hope that broken trust can be rebuilt.
- Licensed, relationship-focused counselors – Our team includes licensed marriage and family therapists and counselors who list couples and marriage among their specialties.
- Rooted in Denton County – From our Argyle office, we serve couples from Bartonville, Denton, Justin, Lantana, Northlake, Roanoke, and nearby communities, and the practice has been named Best of Denton County every year since 2019.
- Flexible ways to begin – Meet in person or online, starting with a free phone consultation.
Talk To One of Our Counselors
Michelle Fitzhugh, LPC-S
Licensed Professional Counselor – Supervisor
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Chris Washam, LCSW
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Jennifer Lafabregue, LPC
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Courtney Osborne, LPC
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Heather Love, LMFT
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Kassie Hitchcock, LPC
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Marianne Pierson, LMFT
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Kendal Rice, LPC, CAS
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Matt Faulkner, LMFT Associate
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Supervised by Dr. Charette Dersch, PhD, LMFT-S.
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Jessica Chacon, LPC Associate
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Chris Shade, LPC Associate
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Jessica Bradley, MA, LPC Associate
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Nicole Resendiz
Masters Level Student Counselor
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Couples Counseling or Individual Counseling?
Couples counseling works on the relationship itself, so both partners usually attend together. Individual counseling focuses on one person’s history, well-being, and goals.
- Couples counseling tends to fit when the main concern lives between you: recurring conflict, broken trust, or growing distance.
- Individual counseling may fit better when one partner is working through depression, anxiety, trauma, or substance use, or needs space to sort out what they want.
- Safety comes first: If there is physical violence or threats, or one partner feels afraid of the other, individual counseling is usually the safer place to begin. If you are in danger right now, call 911 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.
Is It Too Late for Your Marriage?
Many couples wait years before seeking help. Hear from our counselors about why it’s never too late to begin healing.
Getting Started With Couples Counseling
Reaching out is often the hardest part. Here is how the process typically unfolds.
1. A Free Phone Consultation
Either partner can make the first call to 940-222-8552 or send a request through our secure contact form. Share what is prompting you to reach out and whether you prefer sessions in our Argyle office or online. Our office is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
2. Matching You With a Couples Counselor
We pair you with a counselor whose experience fits what the two of you are facing and whose availability works with your schedules.
3. Your First Sessions Together
Early sessions focus on understanding the relationship: what brought you in and what each of you hopes will change. Your counselor will explain how they work and help you set shared goals.
4. Ongoing Work and Progress Check-Ins
As counseling continues, you will practice new ways of talking and repairing after conflict, often with small exercises to try at home. Together with your counselor, you revisit goals and decide when to adjust the pace or wrap up.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
It’s rarely too late. Many couples wait years before seeking help, and even relationships that feel deeply strained can find real healing with the right support and willingness from both partners.
It can still be worthwhile to start, even if just one partner attends at first. Often, the changes one person makes can shift the dynamic and open the door for the other partner to join later.
No. Many couples come to counseling proactively, before a wedding, during a life transition, or simply to strengthen a relationship that’s already good.
It varies by couple and the issues involved. Some couples notice meaningful shifts within a few weeks, while others benefit from longer-term work. Your counselor will discuss what makes sense for you along the way.
Costs vary depending on the type of session and your insurance benefits. Reach out to our office and we’re happy to walk you through pricing and any coverage that may apply to you.
Yes, premarital counseling is a great way to build a strong foundation and address potential challenges before they arise in marriage.
No. Your counselor’s role is to help both partners feel heard and understood, and to guide you both toward healthier patterns, not to decide who is “right.”
Couples counseling can help you look at your relationship honestly, whatever the outcome, so that any decision you make is made with clarity and less regret.
Yes. We follow confidentiality laws and professional standards to protect your privacy as a couple.
Yes, online couples counseling is available for couples in Texas, which can make it easier to fit sessions around work and family schedules.
We help with communication breakdown, trust and infidelity, emotional distance, blended family dynamics, major life transitions, and more.
Reach out to us by phone, email, or our website contact form, and we’ll set up a consultation to discuss your relationship and how we can help.