Couples Counseling in League City, TX for Building Loving Relationships During the Messiness of Life

It feels like every time you’re back on track and moving forward in your relationship, you get kicked in the ass. Life tends to throw stuff at us that we weren’t expecting. You had your plans for having the perfect marriage, growing your family, and crushing that parenting thing. When your plans don’t work out, it leaves you just feeling crushed. And it is so easy to start taking it out on one another, or to stop making time for fun and connection.

Conflict and unexpected challenges can take a toll on your relationship, but it can also be the impetus of growth.

Life certainly doesn’t always go as planned and couples often struggle to work through the messy times together, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get it right. It’s about redefining what successful marriage looks like, and recognizing that letting down your guard is the only way you can see and be understood by your partner.

Feel Connected and Confident in your Marriage

At the Center for Couples Counseling, we are specialists in working with couples. We don’t just fix problems or mediate conflict, we help you transform your relationship and grow closer together because of it. We will not only provide you both tools for communication, grief, and conflict, but we will dig deeply so that you’ll both leave therapy feeling safe, secure, and confident that you can make it through anything together.

We focus on getting to the root of what’s getting in the way of true intimacy, closeness, and connection and healing the parts of each of you that don’t allow you to access your communication skills when you really need them. Once you are able to heal and take care of the childish parts of yourself that keep you stuck in unhealthy patterns, you’ll be able to live more fully in relationship with your partner, transporting you to a place where you both get your needs met and you don’t have to spend 4 miserable hours in gridlock and 2 days of the silent treatment to get there.

Imagine If You Could:

• Disengage from harmful conflict patterns before things escalate

• Stop operating as a “you and me” and start functioning as a “we”

• Shift from being reactive individuals to being proactive teammates

• Heal from your past traumas and learn how to navigate relationships that are loving

• Let go of harshness and stop fighting over who’s right and who’s wrong

• Trust that you deserve a loving, deeply intimate connection with your partner

• Remember everyday why you love your person

Meet the Owner: Erika Labuzan-Lopez, LMFT-S, LPC-S

Hi, I’m Erika, the purple haired (or sometimes blue or pink) owner at the Center for Couples Counseling. I grew up thinking that conflict, belittling your partner into inferiority, and manipulation was the way to get your needs met in a relationship, and for those of us unwilling to participate in those toxic patterns-well we’re just screwed out of love.

Thank God that was all wrong!

Moving out of focusing completely on individual wellness has changed how I live, both as an individual with my personal growth and in the context of relationships. Most of what we learn about relationships is untrue, and stupid. Relationships are not to be feared, and we don't have to rise above them and empower ourselves right out of meaningful marriages. We can humbled ourselves, do the work to heal, and learn to engage in loving connection and intimacy.

After being a couples therapist for over a decade, I see the power in being able to let go of the parts of ourselves that weren’t adequately cared for or taught how to engage lovingly. By taking control over our own reactions and healing, we can now actually work together with our partners as teammates to get our needs and desires attended to.

No yelling, no guilt trips, no silent treatment, no bullshit.

Loving firmness, daring to allow change to happen, and trusting that our partners can be there for us-that’s all we really need.

And my team and I know how to help you get there.

Types of Counseling at Center for Couples Counseling in League City, TX

Marriage Counseling In League City, TX

You trust that your partner is your person, but sometimes you both still feel lonely and disconnected. Let’s redefine what marriage can and should be. Learn how to be true partners when the shit hits the fan, instead of letting life pull you apart.

Individual Therapy in League City, TX

You’ve noticed the same issues surfacing in your relationship are the patterns repeated throughout your life. There’s nothing like having a mirror held up to reflect your insecurities to you. We’ll help you see what’s really going on and grow your confidence in believing that you’re worth trusting and changing for.

Online Therapy in Texas

If life circumstances don’t allow for in-person sessions, or you prefer the convenience of doing therapy in your PJ’s, online therapy may be for you. Research shows it is just as effective as in-person.