My clients see change.         Restoring love involves healing from resentment and relearning healthy communication patterns.  Karis Counseling means "grace," the acceptance we need as we risk change.  Therapy is focused on validation, personal responsibility for your part of the problem, and commitment to change.  Goals are generated at the first session, and couples are empowered as each lets go of self-defeating thoughts and behaviors.  Healing is possible from infidelity and other hurtful life events even if love seems hopeless.

      Passionate relationship can be realized in an atmosphere of mutual love and respect, and your deepest need to be known intimately is met as each partner becomes more emotionally giving.  Most couples are stuck in a raging cycle of blame from not feeling heard.  Therapy helps both partners increase awareness of wounds in the other and learn sacrificial love and empathy.  Anger is a secondary emotion and never the main problem.  A safe, confidential atmosphere is needed for each to have grievances finally healed.  Freedom to be uniquely different from your spouse is experienced in an accepting, validating, and intimate new relationship.  Recreating your marriage can be a reality as you invest an honest attempt to recover what was lost.  We are created for relationship, and I believe in reconciliation and strong love.

      Love can be restored through healthy boundaries, acceptance, forgiveness, empathy listening, anger management, mutual respect, identifying core values and male/female differences, and increasing awareness of each other's needs.

      Therapy approach integrates cognitive behavioral, family systems, solution-focused, and christian principles.  Sessions are relaxed, confidential, and located conveniently at Woodway @ 610 near the Galleria.  Educational tools or readings may be given, and journaling may be helpful in your healing process.  You may opt out of any reading and discontinue therapy at any time.  Sessions generally extend between three and ten sessions.  You may also request spiritual discussion included in sessions, and no values will be imposed at any time.      

Sessions:         $125/hr. for couples and individuals.   Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, and cash accepted.   An insurance form is provided for you to submit to your insurance co. if they reimburse you for seeing an out-of-network therapist.   You can check with the 800# on your card to see if your plan has an out-of-network benefit for counseling.

Scheduling:     Please click the above link to open the online e-calendar.  You may select from the available times shown by entering your email address.  Timecenter.com will send you a reminder email and text on the day of your appointment.   You may also email us at the above link or call 713-501-0663 for help scheduling an appointment.