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Center For Couples Counseling

We are a team of highly trained therapists specializing in couples and individual therapy, infertili Therapy can help.

We all face challenges in life and get into situations where it feels as though there's no way out. You may be dealing with relationship distress, difficult transitions, grieving a loss, struggling with infertility, or transitioning into parenthood. Therapy is a place where you can talk openly, find support, and gain coping skills for dealing with life in a more effective way. Every small step you take can make a big impact on your life. Making the decision to go to therapy is not an easy one. You may feel scared to talk to a stranger, or wonder how someone else can help you with your problems. Many people believe they will be labeled as "crazy." What's so crazy about wanting to feel better? I will work with you in a nonjudgmental and respectful way, broaden your ideas and perspectives, challenge your thinking and relationship patterns, and empower you to make lasting changes in your life. I will be there to keep you motivated and accountable. If you are contemplating therapy or working with me, please take a look at my website, erikalabuzanlopeztherapy.com. My website will provide you with more information about me, my therapeutic style and approach, as well as frequently asked questions and answers. I offer free 20 minute phone consultations as well. Please call me at (832) 827-3288 so that we can discuss more about your needs, goals, and what you are looking for in a therapist.

11/19/2025

We hear A LOT about family holiday events in our office as we move through November and December. The holidays not only bring up things for individuals, but relational injuries from years ago often resurface as people remember their pie being rejected or the passive aggressive comments flying around about their parenting. While many people have figured out how to navigate family events or created their own new way to operate during the holidays, couples still tend to struggle with how they will tackle this time of the year as a team. Check out this week's blog for practical strategies on how to work together to survive (or maybe thrive) the upcoming holiday! Please like and share so that more people can access our free relationship resources.
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Stressed about navigating weird family politics and traditions during the holidays? Have you and your partner directly discussed your needs and hot to meet them together? Jaimi gives us strategies for finding the fun and teamworking the traditions to fit your lives.

11/13/2025

It's officially the season of gratitude! AND, sometimes it's hard to feel grateful. It can be performative, inauthentic, or feel dismissive, especially when there's serious stuff happening that feels heavy and that you're not at all grateful for. I'm challenging you this week to not "just be grateful" at the cost of ignoring your real feelings, but instead making space to notice what's good while still naming what's hard. Check out this week's blog for further exploration. Please like and share so more people can access our free relationship and mental health resources.
CenterforCouplesCounseling.com
(832) 827-3288

Feeling overwhelmed by the holidays and guilty for not always being the in the holiday spirit? Tired of being told to focus on the positive when things are stressful? Erika gives specific ideas and practices about the power of gratitude to be with the hard stuff and how to support our partners in th

10/30/2025

While sometimes cutting someone off or ending a relationship is the best decision, people often move to cut off so quickly that they haven't created space for their own healing in the process. Harm occurs when cut off is chosen too hastily. In most circumstances, it's worth making adjustments and believing change is possible not only to see if operating relationally works but to see if you can heal by not staying in an all-or-nothing, fight-or-flight state at all times. Check out this week's blog for a deeper exploration of healing through acting relationally. Please like and share so that more people can access our free resources.
CenterforCouplesCounseling.com
(832) 827-3288

Are you struggling with whether to stay in a relationship due to longevity, family obligation, etc.? Are you tempted to walk away? Do you have community support if you do? How could reframing the relationship help? Sky covers all of this through the lens of her non-monogamy experience and how it con

10/25/2025

We know there are times where it feels easier to avoid than to lean in. It's a pause button on dealing with something painful or uncomfortable. But withdrawing provides an illusion of safety, and comes with hidden costs. Check out this week's blog to explore more about the toll and damage avoidance causes in relationships and how to choose repair over retreat. Please like and share so more people can access our free relationship resources.
CenterforCouplesCounseling.com
(832) 827-3288

Do you get silent, retreat, and avoid revisiting conflict because you think your relationship will be worse if you speak up or the discomfort of the conversations is too great or threatening? We get it. It can feel scary to speak your truth or return to repair, especially when you never learned how.

10/17/2025

Do you feel the need to protect your peace or rid your life of toxic people? Admittedly, this is a nuanced and challenging topic to tackle in life, and especially in therapy. Societal shifts have resulted in people starting to recognize intergenerational traumas and relational injuries that were buried or repressed in the past, which is a good thing. However, I don't think we quite know how to deal with the healing and relational aspect of sitting with those painful realities, and many people jump to cut-off too quickly. Estrangement or parting ways may be the right answer, but we are encouraging everyone to pause, take a breath, and make space for meaningful repair when possible. Real peace doesn't come from avoidance, it comes from being relational, honest, and boundaried. Check out this week's blog for a more in depth exploration on the topic. Please like and share to help more people gain access to our free relationship resources.
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Have you been avoiding hard conversations or interactions with a loved one? Are you at the point of questioning the health or viability of the relationship? What is your role in the pattern? Are you acknowledging it or is it easier to leave things unsaid and unresolved and walk away? In this case, i

10/02/2025

When things get uncomfortable in your relationship, do you deal with it directly, do you come at it sideways, or do you avoid it all together? I'm seeing an increase in cut-off or withdrawing behaviors across a variety of relationships, and I think it's dangerous. Putting in healthy boundaries doesn't mean jumping to complete cut-off because we can't deal with something. It's a delicate balance to establish healthy boundaries that increase the ability to have hard conversations while limiting hurtful/harmful behaviors, but it can be done. You'll never get there through cut-off because it limits the most important aspects of relationships: connection, repair, and growth. Please like and share this post so that more people can access our free relationship resources.
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When conflict is high, and has been for a while... When you feel betrayed... When you're uncertain how to broach hard conversations... Do you stay and lean in or do you withdraw or leave? Cut-off culture can be very black & white, when life is full of gray. Erika talks us through why it happens,

09/17/2025

How well do you stay connected to your partner during conflict? When you're arguing, are you able to practice attunement? For most people, that's a very hard skill. I love how therapist Jaimi frames the dangers of not learning how to be attuned: Conflict Without Attunement = Emotional Dumpster Fire! Absolutely. Without the ability to slow down, differentiate, and get curious, couples find themselves in total meltdown mode. That's no way to live. Check out this week's blog for tools on how to practice and maintain attunement, even when you're fighting with your partner. Please like and share to help more people access our free relationship resources.
CenterforCouplesCounseling.com
(832) 827-3288

Have you been wondering how to get back to connection with your partner after conflict? Or why things get so heated in the first place? Attunement plays a role, both in maintaining connection through conflict, and finding healthy repair after. Jaimi explains some techniques on wat to do and say to p

09/12/2025

If you've been feeling off when trying to relate to your partner, leaning into attunement and learning to read what's happening with each other is an essential relational skill. Of course, this doesn't mean assigning thoughts/feelings to your partner, it means listening to your body and communicating your somatic experiences to your partner in a way that you can open up both of your understandings. This week's blog provides tangible skills and strategies for improving your attunement skills, because it's something that can be learned and practiced. And your relationship is worth it. Please like and share this post so more people can access our free resources.
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(832) 827-3288

Do you wish you had more play, ease, and ability to read your partner(s)? Do distractions or criticism get in the way of connecting? Sky gives concrete options for way to attune physically and emotionally with your loved ones.

09/03/2025

This month we're moving into a new topic-ATTUNEMENT! Attunement is essentially how much you "get" your partner, whether you can read the subtleties in their shifts or that you know they're bothered even when they say they're not. This week's blog explores the role of attunement in relationships and how mental health symptoms—like depression, anxiety, or trauma responses—often show up between partners. You can shift to seeing these reactions as context, not excuses, so that you can respond with empathy and accountability. Check it out to learn some practical ways to avoid personalizing, holding people accountable, and engaging in repair when things go wrong. Please like and share so more people can access our free resources.
CenterforCouplesCounseling.com
(832) 827-3288

Do you or your partner have STUFF? Mental health concerns like anxiety, depression, past trauma; and you want to show compassion while also balancing teamwork and mutual growth? Erika explains how to use attunement and communication skills to work with those parts of ourselves or our partners in rel

08/27/2025

As we continue to dive into Relational Life Therapy as a model, it's important to understand family roles and what has shaped the way your Adaptive Child shows up in various situations and in context with other people/specific relationships. Were you the scapegoat, or the hero? Maybe you were the mascot or the caretaker. The way you showed up in your family growing up and the function of your behaviors will continue to pop up over and over again, even when it's not healthy or serving you anymore. The first step to making changes is to gain awareness, so check out this week's blog to learn more. Please like and share to help more people gain access to our free relationship resources.
CenterforCouplesCounseling.com
(832) 827-3288

Have you been stuck in a role with your partner, friends, or family members that always plays out the same way, resentment is building, and you're not sure what to do? Naomi explains through Terry Reals' concept of family roles, how we can examine and learn new reactions and build intentional roles

08/21/2025

We've been exploring some tenets of Relational Life Therapy this month, as founded by Terry Real, and many of you have identified with the concepts of the Adaptive Child coming out in moments of high conflict and the influence of FOOBS (Family of Origin Bu****it!). Understanding our behaviors is important, but taking active steps during repair is the way to make meaning of all the crap that happens in relationships. How do you give your partner feedback, especially in the aftermath of an argument? Did you know that's a SHORT and structured way you can do this that can be concise and effective (as opposed to how most people do it, which is to rehash all the little details and half of the time going back into the spiral or being productive but after 3 hours of exhausting conversation)? Check out this week's blog to learn about the feedback wheel and other tools that lead to constructive repair. Please like and share to help more people gain access to our free relationship resources.
CenterforCouplesCounseling.com
(832) 827-3288

Do you and your partner argue over facts and never get to solutions? Do you come with a list of complaints and no ideas for doing things differently. Something's gotta give, but you're not sure what? This Feedback Wheel helps us come to our partner with humility and ideas which lead to teamwork.

08/18/2025

We've been talking about the concept of your Adaptive Child, the part of yourself that comes out during conflict when you feel like you can't access any other tools and go back to what worked for you when you were a child. When we fight, old stuff comes out-and what caused those pains? It's likely what I lovingly refer to as FOOBS, Family of Origin Bu****it, the emotional reflexes and deeply wired beliefs you've inherited from your early environment. FOOBS is why you shut down when voices are raised, why you question your decision making, why you react in ways that feel disproportionate. And while it's imperative to understand your FOOBs, you have to learn how to do something different. Check out this week's blog to learn more. Please like and share so that more people can access our free relationship resources.
CenterforCouplesCounseling.com
(832) 827-3288

Do you have really big reactions during conflict and you're not sure why? A lot of times it's because we're responding from a wounded child part in our adult relationships. Jaimi explains normalizing this, talking about it, and how to re-write your script from your Wise Adult.

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880 Lawrence Road Suite 180
League City, TX
77573

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Tuesday	9am - 8pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 8pm
Friday	9am - 3pm

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http://erikalabuzanlopeztherapy.com/

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