Relationship Therapy
for Adults, Couples,
and Families
Understanding your patterns and creating healing relationships. Serving clients in Houston and Seattle.
My Specialties
Do you feel pressure to maintain the appearance of a happy, successful person, couple, or family, but behind closed doors you know you're struggling? Things are not what they seem from the outside, and you feel like you lack the skills to make the changes you need.
Maybe you're carrying an ongoing sense of dread or anxiety. A memory from the past keeps resurfacing. You feel consumed by guilt or a sense of failure, or you lost someone and think you should be over it by now. You wish your relationships felt more connected, more like a reflection of who you actually are. No matter how hard you try, you feel overwhelmed and depleted, and maybe you wonder why you can never say no to the people in your life.
As a couple, maybe you're fighting constantly, or you've stopped talking altogether. You wonder when you went from lovers to roommates. A big decision looms and you can't get on the same page. A betrayal or life change sits between you, unspoken. Or the person who used to be your whole world now feels like they live on a different planet since you had kids.
As a family, there may be a pattern of conflict or passive aggression that resurfaces every time you're together. A new marriage or a new baby has disrupted the rhythm you knew. A parent's death has left the family unsure how to move forward. Boundaries keep getting crossed, or you don't know how to navigate differing beliefs or expectations when you live states apart.
Whatever it is, you don't have to figure out what you're feeling, or what you want, on your own.
In therapy, we dig into the ways the past may be quietly dictating your present, often without your awareness, leaving you to repeat the same patterns again and again. You know something needs to change, but you don't yet know what.
Together, with patience, curiosity, and compassion, we explore the questions that weigh on you and the experiences that shaped who you are, as an individual, a couple, or a family. Over time, this work puts the tools for change and healing within reach, so you can build a life, and relationships, that feel truly your own.
Relationships, Couples, and Families
I facilitate healing conversations for couples, friends, family members, and chosen family members. Thriving, safe relationships and emotional connection makes our experience of life much more fulfilling. Utilizing Emotionally Focused Therapy and trauma-informed & attachment based techniques, our work together can transform the quality of your core relationships.
Grief & Loss
Whether anticipated or a shock, there is little that changes the course of our lives more than loss — whether it’s of a loved one, a dream, a job, etc. We can make space to feel the weight of your grief, honor what has been and what is yet not known, and help you find your way forward with kindness, patience, and strength.
Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma
Many of us face seasons of anxiety and depression – or both – in our lives. This could be situational or an ongoing diagnosis. You may also be sorting through a past traumatic experience that you’ve not processed within a safe space. Let’s provide you with practical tools to help you cope on a daily basis while we uncover the deeper layers of the pain you hold inside.
Mind & Body
I offer guidance when you’re wanting to explore a healing and liberating relationship with your sexuality, food & body image, navigating an adult-onset ADHD diagnosis, examining your relationship with substances, and coping with hormonal, emotional and physical changes related to aging.
Life Transitions
The only thing certain in our life is change. Sometimes the change is welcomed, and sometimes it is forced upon us. We can create space for you to slow down and listen to what you need to guide you through a new chapter, season, or identifying aspect of your life.
“The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our relationships.”
About Ashlee
I have worked in the mental health field for 20 years, including nonprofit mental health executive leadership, and I’ve been a private practice clinician since 2013.
Personally, I have known life to be both brutal and beautiful, and my role as a therapist is informed by the belief that we don’t have to navigate the ebbs and flows of what life requires of us alone. An attuned witness is a powerful force of change.
Over the years, I have helped clients sort through everything from the loss of a loved one to complicated family dynamics, from anxiety and burnout to struggles with drinking too much, from dating to parenting to divorce, and everything in between.
I offer psychodynamic therapy to people who want to dig deeper and better understand what parts of themselves are unhealed and what unconscious beliefs drive their life and relationships — all on behalf of making their life feel more meaningful and fulfilling.
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I work from an intersectional and eclectic perspective that is based on depth work and relational psychodynamic psychotherapy. My main clinical orientation includes trauma-informed Attachment Theory, Depth Psychology/Object Relations, and Emotionally Focused Therapy.
I am LBGTQ+ affirming and deeply committed to anti-oppressive and culturally inclusive work. I am warm, direct, and collaborative, and I strive to provide a safe and healing environment for anyone in my care.
I offer virtual therapy to anyone living in either Texas or Washington State. For those near Houston, I have an office located in the Montrose neighborhood for in-person sessions.