If your relationship feels like this....
You're not alone.
Affair shattered trust. You both are left wondering if it can be rebuilt.
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​Alone in your relationship. Ignored, abandoned, rejected, invisible and painfully disconnected. ​​
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Fights escalate fast. You're stuck in a toxic cycle and don't know how to make it stop. ​​​
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​​​Sex life non-existent. Passion is gone. You feel more like roommates than lovers.
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Walking on eggshells. The constant emotional roller coaster is leaving both of you drained. ​​​​​​​​​​​
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Can't let go of past resentment. Leaving both of you stuck not knowing how to move past this.
Whatever your marriage is facing, it can feel impossible to resolve when the same patterns keep taking over.
The Patterns that Keep Repeating
As the pattern strengthens, reactions become sharper and harder to repair.
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Conversations turn critical or defensive.
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Certain topics, get avoided all together.
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Distance slowly replaces connection.
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You begin living side by side instead of together.
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The relationship feels less like a safe place and more like something to manage.
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When betrayal has occurred, these same dynamics accelerate - making repair feel even more out of reach without support.
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This is where structured, guided work begins - so you're not facing this alone.
A Research Proven Plan to Move Your Marriage Foward
Couples therapy sessions are guided and intentional, so you're not left talking in circles or reliving the same fight with your therapist.
Step 1 - Identify the Pattern and Slow Things Down
We start by getting clear on the cycle that keeps taking over your relationship.
As that pattern becomes visible, sessions focus on slowing things down so fights, shutdowns and emotional spirals stop causing further damage.
When trust has been broken, this first step is essential - because without slowing the cycle down, repair isn't possible.
Step 2 - Rebuild Emotional Safety
Once the cycle has slowed down, the focus shifts to rebuilding emotional safety.
So, conversations don't immediately turn defensive.
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This creates space for you to talk to each other without attacking, defending or shutting down.
Allowing you to actually understand each other instead of being pulled back into same loops.
After betrayal this step is essential - because without safety, trust and connection don't have a foundation to build on.
Step 3 - Strengthen Connection & Create a Way Foward
As reactivity slows and emotional safety grows, the work shifts toward strengthening connection in ways that can last.
This isn't about forcing closeness or returning to how things used to be.
It's about staying emotionally engaged, repairing when things go off track and moving forward together with more clarity and alignment.
What Makes Our Couples Therapy Different
What Happens in the Room​
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We don't just listen while the same arguments repeat.
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Each session is guided to help shift communication and emotional safety, so you leave with greater clarity and forward movement.
You Leave with Clear Path Foward
Each session includes personalized tools and session notes based on what actually worked for your relationship.
So, you're not trying to remember everything or guessing what to do between sessions.
No One Leaves as the "Bad Guy"​
Therapy shouldn't feel like a courtroom.
We are intentional about making sure neither of you feels blamed judged or teamed up against.
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The work stays focused on understanding what's happening between you, so that you can find safety together.
Meet Luke Dickens
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My team and I work with couples who feel stuck in constant arguments, emotional distance, or broken trust. ​
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We don't take sides. We dont force conversations your'e not ready for.
Instead we slow everything down and help you understand what keeps happening between you.
Once the pattern becomes clear, the fights and/or distance start to lessen. And the same pain stops repeating.
We help you face the hardest moments together, rebuild trust, and reconnect in a way that actually lasts.
You don't need to have the right words.
You don't need to know where to start.
We will help guide on this journey of healing together one step at a time.
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​Every clinician at Dickens Marriage & Family Therapy holds a graduate or doctoral degree in Marriage & Family Therapy and is trained to work with relationships - not just individuals.
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Our team shares an attachment-based, relationship-focused approach, with advanced training in EFT, Gottman Method, and EMDR. The focus stays on building emotional safety, so both partners can reconnect and move forward together.
Care Delivered by Marriage & Family Specialists
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Common Questions Couples Ask
We have tried couples therapy before but it didn't work. How is this diferent?
Many couples come to us after trying therapy that felt like venting or rehashing the same argument over and over again without experiencing real change.
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Instead of talking for an hour, your therapist guides you to slow down the patterns that take over. In session, we help you co-create safety with each other so that you can actually understand each other and work toward a solution towards the issues you're facing.
Do you take insurance for couples work?
No, we are a private pay practice.
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This allows us to focus fully on repairing your relationship. And not insurance requirements, diagnoses or session limits.
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Because we aren't restricted by insurance guidelines, we can work at the pace your relationship needs, adjust session lengths, and focus on creating real change.
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For many couples, this flexibility is what makes repair and lasting change possible.
Dickens Marriage & Family Therapy Office Locations
Flower Mound Office:
3419 Cross Timbers Rd.
Flower Mound, Tx 75028
Suite 104-I
Call or Text us @ 817-999-5472
Email us at luke@dickensmarriagetherapy.com
