At Good Fences Counseling, individual and couples therapy is centered on helping people move toward the lives and relationships they truly want. We believe growth happens through clarity, compassionate exploration, taking practical steps that align with your values without falling into shame, pressure, or the expectation of perfection. Therapy is a steady, supportive space where you can understand what’s happening in your life, make sense of your emotional patterns, and build healthier ways of relating to yourself and the people around you.

 

 

Individual Therapy: Supporting Your Growth from the Inside Out

 

 

Individual therapy offers a grounded, warm, and nonjudgmental place to sort through the challenges that are getting in the way of the life you want to lead. Whether you’re navigating anxiety, shame, relationship strain, emotional reactivity, or major life transitions, we begin by helping you find immediate stability and small, workable steps forward. From there, the process deepens into understanding the emotional and relational patterns that shape your reactions, choices, and internal dialogue.

 

While centered in ACT, EFT, and DBT skills, our approach remains eclectic and flexible, drawing from multiple therapeutic traditions without being limited by any single one. This allows the work to adapt to your needs rather than forcing you into a rigid framework. Together, we explore values, build emotional insight, strengthen communication, and develop healthier boundaries that help you feel more steady, confident, and connected. We work at your pace, with curiosity and compassion, and without pathologizing your experience.

 

 

Couples Therapy: Strengthening Connection and Building Healthy Boundaries

 

 

Couples therapy at Good Fences Counseling focuses on helping partners understand each other’s emotions, needs, and patterns in a way that fosters closeness rather than conflict. Many couples come to therapy feeling stuck in cycles of distance, miscommunication, hurt, or reactivity. Our work begins with developing acceptance, helping each partner gain clarity about what’s happening inside themselves and between them. Once there is steadiness, we begin strengthening emotional connection, building trust, and developing healthier ways to communicate.

 

Boundaries play an important role in couples work—not as barriers, but as guides for how partners can show up more fully and respectfully for one another. Clear, values-based boundaries allow relationships to function with honesty, safety, and mutual care. Just as any farmer or rancher knows that good fences make good neighbors, healthy boundaries in relationships allow each partner to feel secure enough to engage, repair, and reconnect.

 

 

A Values-Based, Shame-Free Approach

 

 

Across both individual and couples therapy, our philosophy remains the same: do what works, move toward your values, and cultivate healthier relationships with yourself and others. We offer a steady, compassionate presence and a non-shaming environment where you can explore difficult emotions, experiment with new skills, and shift long-standing patterns with support. This is a place to learn, grow, reflect, and regain a sense of direction—never a place where you will be judged or pushed into something that doesn’t fit.

 

 

Moving Toward the Life You Choose

 

 

Individual and couples therapy are opportunities to build clarity, emotional steadiness, and deeply meaningful connection. Whether you are beginning your personal healing journey, working to repair or strengthen your relationship, or simply looking for guidance as life becomes complicated, Good Fences Counseling is here to walk with you.