We also offer online couples counseling in addition to our individual online sessions. Couples can also participate in online relationship counseling for relationship issues, or parenting concerns. With couples counseling, it’s important initially to meet on a regular basis to heal negative patterns of communication and build new skills, rather than use counseling as an emergency resource. Couple or marriage counseling often gets stalled due to the challenge of matching up schedules for in person visits. When this happens, it is difficult to make the changes suggested by marriage and family therapists needed to get unstuck from negative cycles and learn new coping skills. The benefits of online couples therapy include having greater flexibility to attend sessions without having to worry about driving in Houston traffic or finding childcare to attend therapy sessions. This allows you and your partner to make effective and necessary changes to break negative cycles. Web therapy for couples is very similar to face to face or traditional counseling. It’s conducted via video, even if one partner is out of town. This makes it much more convenient to participate in regular live sessions. Ideally, you and your partner can be together online, but it’s also OK if you are both at different locations. However, we do prefer that you both have access to a video camera, whether through your phone or webcam so you can see your partner and your family therapist on screen. Members of the LGBTQ+ community are more than welcome to participate in online marriage or couples counseling.