Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling in Dallas
Rebuild trust, improve communication, and restore intimacy with experienced relationship counselors in Dallas. In-person and virtual appointments are available.
Compassionate, Evidence-Based Couples Therapy in North Dallas
You find yourself having the same argument over and over with nothing ever getting resolved. Or maybe you hardly argue at all anymore because you’ve both stopped trying. Maybe you love each other deeply but feel more like roommates than partners or wonder whether trust, intimacy, or closeness can ever feel the same.
At Noyau Wellness Center, couples therapy in Dallas gives you a place to slow down enough to understand what keeps happening between you and start changing the patterns that leave you feeling disconnected. Our Dallas office is located at 5445 La Sierra Dr #200, Dallas, TX 75231, serving couples throughout North Dallas, Preston Hollow, Lake Highlands, Park Cities, Uptown, and surrounding communities. We also offer secure, HIPAA-compliant virtual couples and marriage counseling for those who prefer to meet from home.
Whether you’re working through a crisis or simply know your relationship could be stronger, therapy is about understanding each other more clearly and finding healthier ways to move forward.
Meet Our Dallas Couples Counselors
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Angela S. Taylor, MA, LPC-S
Angela is a co-founder of Noyau Wellness Center, Senior Therapist, and Executive/Business Coach with extensive experience helping people navigate their relationships while balancing the other demands in their lives. She can help couples look beneath recurring conflicts, better understand what each partner needs, and build a relationship that feels more connected and sustainable.
Her direct, experienced style may be especially helpful for couples who want therapy that feels both supportive and goal-oriented.
Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor & Approved Supervisor
Specialties: Depression, anxiety, relationships/sex, grief/loss, self-esteem, life coaching, addiction
Availability: Virtual and in-person in Dallas
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Tara Long, LPC-Associate
Tara brings experience from a variety of counseling settings and draws from different therapeutic methods to meet each couple where they are. Her flexible approach can help partners better understand how personal experiences, emotions, and relationship patterns influence the way they interact with one another.
She works collaboratively with couples who want to move beyond recurring frustrations and experience greater healing, growth, and connection.
Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor Associate #86174
Specialties: Anxiety, depression, families, adolescents, relationships
Availability: Virtual and in-person in Dallas
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Ciara Kennedy, MS, LPC-Associate
Ciara prioritizes creating a strong therapeutic relationship where both partners feel heard and respected. She’s particularly passionate about providing safe, affirming counseling for people from diverse communities, including LGBTQIA+ couples.
Her approach can be a strong fit when identity, codependency, emotional health, chronic stress, or a major life transition is affecting the relationship.
Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor Associate #94275
Specialties: Depression, anxiety, LGBTQ+ issues, chronic pain, codependency, life transitions
Availability: Virtual and in-person in Dallas
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Christina Iverson, MCRC, CRC, LPC
Christina is a Senior Therapist who is passionate about helping couples work through relationship challenges while learning practical skills they can use outside the therapy room.
She works with each couple’s specific goals rather than assuming there is one right way for a relationship to function. Together, you can better understand what is getting in the way of connection and begin developing healthier ways to respond to one another.
Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor, Clinical Rehabilitation Counselor
Specialties: Individual counseling services, anxiety, depression, families
Availability: Virtual in Dallas
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Lauren Hernandez-Short, LPC-Associate
Lauren uses an eclectic, collaborative, and holistic approach to help couples build stronger and more fulfilling relationships.
Her background may be particularly valuable for couples navigating parenting stress, neurodivergence, trauma, or the challenge of balancing the needs of a relationship with the needs of a family. She helps couples look at the bigger picture rather than reducing relationship concerns to one argument or one partner.
Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor #88972
Specialties: Child-centered play therapy, parenting, adolescents, trauma, ADHD, neurodivergence, depression, anxiety
Availability: Virtual in Dallas
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Charity Haigans, MA, LPC-S
Charity is a co-founder of Noyau Wellness Center as well as a Senior Therapist and Coach. She brings an enthusiastic, goal-oriented approach to helping couples understand what is happening in their relationship and what they want to change.
Her extensive background working with anxiety, family dynamics, parenting, self-esteem, and personal growth can help partners explore how individual experiences affect the relationship they are building together.
Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor, Approved Supervisor, EMDR Trained
Specialties: Depression, anxiety, family/parenting, adolescents, self-esteem, life coaching
Availability: Virtual in Dallas
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Justine Guzman, MA, LPC-S
Justine is a Senior Therapist and Personal Development Coach who is passionate about helping couples from diverse backgrounds experience more joy and fulfillment in their relationships.
Her work may be particularly helpful when concerns around intimacy, sex, identity, family relationships, or emotional connection are difficult to talk about on your own. She creates space for both partners to be honest about what they need while working toward a stronger relationship together.
Credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor #75160 (TX), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor #5372 (MN)
Specialties: Relationships/sex, families, eating disorders, LGBTQ couples
Availability: Virtual in Dallas
Marriage & Relationship Issues We Help Dallas Couples Resolve
You don’t have to wait until your relationship feels like it is falling apart to seek couples counseling in Dallas. Our couples therapists can help with:
Communication Breakdowns: Moving past repeated cycles of arguing or stony silence.
Infidelity & Trust Recovery: Rebuilding safety and transparency after emotional or physical affairs.
Emotional Distance & Intimacy: Rekindling physical closeness and emotional connection.
Premarital Counseling: Building a strong foundation before marriage, discussing finances, family dynamics, and expectations.
Parenting & Life Transitions: Navigating the stress of new parenthood, blended families, or empty-nest syndrome.
Discernment Counseling: For couples on the fence about whether to stay together or separate.
Our Therapeutic Approaches for Couples
No two relationships have exactly the same history, challenges, strengths, or goals. Our Dallas relationship therapists use evidence-based and integrative strategies to personalize therapy rather than expecting every couple to fit the same model.
The Gottman Method
Gottman-informed couples work focuses on strengthening friendship, improving communication, managing conflict more constructively, and creating a greater sense of shared meaning.
Instead of expecting couples to stop disagreeing entirely, this approach can help partners learn how to navigate disagreement without repeatedly hurting or distancing themselves from each other.
Emotionally Focused & Attachment-Informed Work
Many arguments are about more than the topic being discussed. Fear of rejection, feeling unimportant, needing reassurance, or protecting yourself from getting hurt can create patterns in which one partner pursues connection while the other withdraws. Attachment-informed work helps partners identify negative interaction loops and transform anxious or avoidant attachment responses into secure bonds.
Relational & Integrative Therapy
Relationships are complex. Your therapist can customize approaches tailored to non-traditional couples, busy executives, and diverse family structures. The goal of marriage counseling in Dallas at Noyau isn’t to force your relationship to look like someone else’s. It’s to help you create a healthier relationship that works for your relationship.
What to Expect During Your First Couples Session
Starting couples therapy can feel intimidating, especially when you know difficult conversations may come up. Knowing what happens next can make the process easier.
1. Start With a Free Initial Consultation
Start with short, no-pressure phone call where you can tell us a little about what’s bringing you in, ask any questions, and get matched with a Noyau therapist who fits your needs, preferences, and scheduling needs. Or you can request a specific therapist if you have someone in mind you’d like to work with.
2. A Joint Intake & Individual Assessment
Your first appointment will typically be a joint session where you and your partner can explain what you see as the primary concerns in your relationship. Your therapist will want to understand when problems started, how they’ve changed, what arguments typically look like, and what each of you hopes to get out of therapy.
After your initial joint appointment, your therapist may meet with each partner individually to gain a better understanding of your personal experiences and perspectives.
3. Create a Customized Action Plan
From there, therapy becomes more active and collaborative. You may work on communication, conflict resolution, intimacy, trust, boundaries, emotional connection, or another area that matters to your relationship.
The goal isn’t simply to spend an hour talking about everything that went wrong that week. It’s to understand the patterns underneath those moments and learn how to approach them differently.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dallas Couples Counseling
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Costs for couples therapy in Dallas can vary based on the therapist’s credentials, specializations, session length, and location. Rates at Noyau Wellness Center, our rates vary depending on which therapist you work with.
We are not directly paneled with insurance companies. This allows our therapists to meet your treatment needs without insurance restrictions. If you have out-of-network mental health benefits, we can provide you a superbill for you to submit for potential partial reimbursement.
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Our Dallas office is located at 5445 La Sierra Dr #200, Dallas, TX 75231, which is right off of NCX and Greenville Avenue, nearby Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, making us easily accessible for couples coming from Preston Hollow, Lake Highlands, the Park Cities, Uptown, and surrounding Dallas neighborhoods.
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Most couples counseling in Dallas starts with both partners attending together. Your therapist may then recommend individual sessions with each partner as part of the assessment process. These meetings give your therapist a chance to get to know more about each of you. While your therapist may check in with each of you individually, the majority of sessions will take place with both partners.
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The terms marriage counseling, couples counseling, and couples therapy are often used interchangeably. Regardless of the term being used, you don’t need to be married to seek relationship counseling. Dating couples, engaged partners, married couples, LGBTQIA+ couples, co-parents, and other committed partners can all benefit from support.
While verifying your clinician's credentials is important, it's only one part of choosing the best couples therapist for you. We recommend that you also consider the specific approaches that your therapist uses, their training, their experience working with couples, and logistics such as their scheduling availability.
Visit Our North Dallas Office
Noyau Wellness Center offers in-person couples counseling in Dallas at 5445 La Sierra Dr #200, Dallas, TX 75231, which is conveniently located in North Dallas near Greenville Avenue and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Our office has plenty of free parking around the building, as well as wheelchair accessibility.
Or if you’d prefer counseling from the comfort of your home or other private space, we also offer virtual couples counseling, making receiving care easier to fit around partners with very different schedules.