Therapy Services in Fort Worth for Individuals, Teens, and Families

Vervewell therapists work with clients who may be experiencing regular bouts of anxiety. Sometimes anxiety shows up as panic. Learning simpler ideas like deep breathing and visualization are often utilized, as well as more complex modalities like reactive vs responsive, thought driven action, and curated headspace day after day.

Anxiety represents the psyche’s alarm system responding to perceived threats, both real and Imagined. Rather than simply suppressing symptoms, we’ll explore anxiety as a meaningful communication from parts of yourself demanding attention. You’ll develop sophisticated strategies for self-regulation while investigating the underlying conflicts your anxiety may be expressing. This involves learning to differentiate between realistic concerns requiring action and neurotic anxiety serving defensive purposes. By developing a more nuanced relationship with your anxiety, you transform it from tyrant to teacher, using its energy for growth rather than paralysis.

Boundaries: Identifying, Setting, and Reinforcing (all therapists)

Your boundaries are where you decide “You” end and “The World” begins. Some people eschew all intimacy and connection with others to protect themselves from harm. Others might feel unable to reject a stranger’s request to borrow their car keys. Therapy can help you find the balance between these two extremes, then put your new boundaries into practice.

CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) (all therapists)

This is a therapy practice that sets a landscape for a client to work with their therapist to identify unhelpful thought patterns and to replace them with productive thought processes. The focus is mainly on the relationship between thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It is goal and action oriented, placing opportunity for productive personal growth in and outside of the therapy sessions.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD) (David only)

This is a structured treatment approach that examines the ways the brain gets stuck while trying to make sense of traumatic experiences. It is among the most empirically supported treatments for PTSD across nearly all populations.

Couples Counseling: (Beth, Heather, Jason, Blake only)

A couple receiving counseling at Vervewell will experience a therapy model that supports the bond of a couple, while building both people to their healthiest selves. Intimate relationships serve as crucibles for our deepest longings and fears, revealing both our capacity for connection and our terror of merger. In couples therapy, we create a triangulated space where each partner’s subjective reality can be voiced and explored without annihilating the other’s truth. We’ll examine the unconscious contracts that govern your relationship, the projective identifications that distort perception, and the repetitive cycles that maintain dysfunction. This work demands courage from both partners—the willingness to own projections, tolerate differences, and risk authentic encounters. Through this process, love evolves from unconscious entanglement to conscious choice.

Daily life hacks for healthy lifestyle (all therapists)

At Vervewell, the entire team is well-versed in Beth’s lifestyle hacks method called the SHEEN method. She has an on-line course available for purchase at LongLiveLively.org that allows each attendee to apply and experience the SHEEN method in action.

Simply put, it is an acronym: Sleep Hydrate Exercise Express and Nourish

Her research with this approach has proven that once these five tenets are actively in place on a day-by-day basis, we are more qualified to handle the hand we’ve been dealt. It’s a method that encourages us to FEEL good by taking healthy action each day.

The structure of daily life provides the scaffolding upon which psychological well-being is built. In addition to the SHEEN method, we’ll work to identify sustainable practices that honor both your aspirations and limitations, recognizing that small, consistent actions often yield more profound changes than dramatic gestures. This involves examining the unconscious resistances to self-care, understanding how chaotic routines may serve defensive functions. By bringing intentionality to your daily habits, you create a container strong enough to hold life’s inevitable uncertainties. The aim is not perfection but rather the establishment of rhythms that support both productivity and restoration.

Depressed Moods (all therapists)

Vervewell therapists are qualified to work with clients experiencing various levels of depression. Our approach is typically to identify strengths, past successes, and to navigate on-going thought processes and self-beliefs into a strengthened direction. Mindset and lifestyle are also typically addressed. Depression often masks a complex constellation of unexpressed grief, thwarted desire, and existential despair. In our work together, we’ll explore not just the manifest symptoms but the deeper meanings embedded within your suffering. This involves examining how depression might serve protective functions, shielding you from unbearable truths or impossible conflicts. We’ll investigate the ways outside narratives intersect with personal history to create your unique depressive constellation. Through careful attention to both psychological dynamics and existential concerns, we work toward not mere symptom relief but a more authentic engagement with life’s inherent difficulties.

Divorce and co-parenting support (Beth, Heather, Jason, Blake only)

When divorce takes place, it is not unusual for children (no matter their ages) to take on the divorce as if it is their own. However, it is in the family’s best interest to approach and navigate the divorce by excluding the children from the nuances that launched the divorce in the first place. Vervewell couples counselors help keep the family on track by guiding the divorcing couple through the end of a marriage, yet a continuation of family and co-parenting. This is a delicate dance and it takes strength and determination for parents to shoulder pain while protecting their children from experiencing as little of it as possible.

Divorce can be disorienting—but it doesn’t have to define you or traumatize your family. Our therapy supports you through the emotional upheaval while helping you build clarity, resilience, and healthier boundaries. For parents, we focus on creating a stable, respectful co-parenting dynamic that protects your child’s well-being and keeps conflict out of the middle. It’s not just about getting through divorce—it’s about growing through it.

Divorce Recovery (all therapists)

While divorce can be a very painful process, the Vervewell team works with clients to walk through the divorce experience utilizing strong boundaries and self-confidence. The goal with divorce recovery is to highlight lessons learned, and opportunities to grow a version of oneself who moves forward with a sense of grace and self-improvement. Our therapists understand the delicacy and heightened emotions that typically surface during the divorce experience. Our therapy sessions around this topic offer space where the delicacy is honored.

Effective Communication (all therapists)

True communication transcends mere information exchange—it represents our fundamental human struggle to be known while maintaining our separateness. In our work, we’ll examine how your communication patterns reflect deeper anxieties about vulnerability, power, and connection. You’ll develop the capacity to articulate your inner experience without sacrificing authenticity or overwhelming others, learning to navigate the delicate balance between self-assertion and receptivity. This involves recognizing how your words and silences shape relational dynamics, creating either cycles of misunderstanding or deepening intimacy. The goal is not perfect communication but rather the cultivation of genuine dialogue.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) (Blake only)

Trauma fragments the continuity of experience, leaving the psyche trapped in recursive loops of unprocessed pain. EMDR provides a structured pathway to metabolize these frozen moments, engaging the mind’s bilateral processing systems to transform overwhelming experiences into integrated memories. Through this sophisticated approach, what once triggered automatic defensive responses can become part of your coherent life narrative. The work requires courage—facing difficult truths while maintaining faith in your capacity for psychological integration. In choosing to engage with your trauma rather than remaining its prisoner, you reclaim agency over your own story.

Family Therapy: (Beth, Heather, Jason, Blake only)

Beth believes that family therapy sessions are a true gift to offer your family. A family receiving counseling at Vervewell will experience a counseling model that supports healthy communication skills, reasonable boundary setting, and strong connection within the family structure. These sessions are held when the children are young, as well as when the children are adults. Anytime is a good time for family therapy.

Financial Infidelity Recovery (all therapists)

Beth, Heather, Jason and Blake work with couples who have experienced financial infidelity. Simply put, yet not simple at all, financial infidelity is when someone in the marriage or relationship is using money in a way that is outside of the financial agreement. If a financial agreement doesn’t exist in the relationship, defining one will be very supportive for financial infidelity to have no place in the marriage. This topic is also approached by all Vervewell therapists within individual therapy.

Grief and loss (all therapists)

Loss changes everything—your world, your identity, your sense of control. Our grief therapy offers a compassionate space to process the pain, find meaning in the mess, and move forward without forcing closure. Whether you’ve lost a person, a relationship, a phase of life, or even a version of yourself, we’re here to help you honor what was while building strength for what’s next.

Impulsivity and Compulsivity Management (all therapists)

Learning to treat one’s self with healthy regard is often learned. Vervewell counselors are well versed in addressing impulsive and compulsive behaviors as actions coming from a self-destructive space. Once the self-destruction is identified and understood, a stronger headspace can be obtained and thought driven actions can be THE adjustment needed to subside these active behaviors. Impulsive and compulsive behaviors represent attempts to manage unbearable internal states through external action. Together, we’ll explore these patterns as communications from parts of yourself seeking recognition or relief. This work involves developing the capacity to tolerate difficult emotions without immediate discharge, creating space between impulse and action where choice becomes possible. We’ll examine how these behaviors may serve defensive functions, protecting against deeper anxieties about control, emptiness, or fragmentation. Understanding the meaning embedded in these patterns, you develop more adaptive ways of meeting the underlying needs they attempt to address.

Individual Therapy: (all therapists)

An individual client receiving counseling at Vervewell will experience the team’s well-versed knowledge of various therapy methods, including but not limited to: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy and EMDR. Beth also has written several of her own therapy methods she utilizes with clients, as well as teaches to her Vervewell team. Furthermore, individual therapy offers a uniquely protected space where the full complexity of your inner world can unfold without judgment or agenda. Here, we engage in the paradoxical task of using relationships to explore your struggles with relationships, employing the therapeutic alliance as both method and model. You’ll have the opportunity to examine not just what troubles you, but how you construct meaning from your experiences. This work requires commitment to truth-seeking over comfort-seeking, recognizing that growth often emerges from confronting what we’ve long avoided. In bearing witness to your own story with compassionate curiosity, new possibilities for being emerge.

Infidelity Recovery (Beth, Heather, Jason, Blake only)

Select Vervewell therapists work with couples who have experienced infidelity within their marriage or relationships. The recovery from this can take time, yet is often an opportunity for clients to grow better versions of themselves, and to establish a healthy relationship where infidelity has no place.

Interpersonal Process Therapy (all therapists)

This approach examines not only the content of our speech, but also our timing, body language, and context. The interpersonal process therapist welcomes the opportunity to work “in the here and now,” seizing on unsatisfactory or harmful relational patterns as they occur in the therapy session itself and offering immediate opportunity to experiment with positive change.

Multigenerational Family Therapy (Beth and Heather only)

This is a powerful process for adult children and their parents. This type of therapy allows for clients to have a neutral space to communicate the challenges that come with navigating the complexity of the aging parent child relationship. Common themes of discussion include navigating conflict and challenges, resetting and respecting boundaries, and communicating expectations within changing life roles.

Peer Relationships, Coping Skills and School issues for Adolescents and Teens (Casye only)

Adolescence is intense—and teens need tools, not just advice. Our therapy sessions help teens navigate friendship drama, social pressure, academic stress, and emotional ups and downs with confidence. We focus on building real-world coping skills, emotional resilience, and healthy communication so they can thrive in school, at home, and with their peers. Safe space. No judgment. Real support.

Professionals Counseling: (David only)

Professionals counseling, which can be offered in multiple different formats, includes specialized knowledge and support for individuals in high-stress careers. If you operate in the public eye, or you regularly serve people in life-or-death situations, or you make decisions that impact thousands of people on a daily basis, you may be a candidate for professionals counseling. Common topics include perfectionism, maladaptive self-restraint, porous work boundaries, and work-related anxiety.

Psychodynamic Therapy and Inner Child Work (Beth, David, Blake only)

The patterns that govern our lives often operate beneath conscious awareness, expressing themselves through repetitive struggles and unfulfilling relationships. In psychodynamic therapy, we create a unique relational space where these unconscious templates can emerge and be examined. Together, we’ll explore how early experiences shaped your fundamental assumptions about self, the world, and others, illuminating the ways the past continues to influence present choices. This process demands both intellectual rigor and emotional courage—the willingness to question long-held beliefs while tolerating the uncertainty that accompanies genuine transformation. Through sustained exploration, what was once compulsively repeated can become consciously chosen.

Recruitment and Development of Robust Social Supports (all therapists)

Good social support can be one of the most crucial resources in individuals achieving their goals. Often, healthy relationships themselves are high on people’s priority lists. Therapy can help you take an inventory of your own needs and help you build a team of supportive people.

Secularly Focused (though religion and spirituality affirming) (Beth and David only)

While the Vervewell Team is not religious or Christian counselors, Beth and David offer sessions where the client’s church affiliation or spiritual stance are used as part of the client’s support system. Leaning into one’s productive beliefs is a strong tool to use for successful daily experiences. Beth is well versed in meditation and manifestation and will offer such skills to a client if desired. Whether you want to discuss religion or not is ok. If you do, you can expect a secular therapist to follow your lead as the expert on your own personal faith and its function in your life.

Self-Restriction, Perfectionism, and Hyper-Control (all therapists)

These symptoms are often much more subtle than their explosive, impulsive, or chaotic counterparts. In some circumstances, they may even be highly rewarded. But maladaptive aversion to risk, experimentation, or indulgence can rob us of some of life’s most pleasurable and rewarding experiences. And often, our efforts to bottle up our own needs to serve those around us have an overall negative impact on our own lives and those of the people we care about.

Solution Focused Therapy (all therapists)

This is a therapy approach that shines a light on the client’s strengths, focuses on the present and the future, and aims to find solutions rather than dwelling on the root causes or past experiences. As therapists using Solution Focused Therapy the focus is on helping clients identify their strengths, resources, and past successes to build upon what already works. This provides an opportunity to create a vision of a preferred future and explore practical steps to achieve that vision.

Substance Use Disorders and Other Addictive Behaviors (David only)

There are many pathways to recovery, and people who are bought into their own personalized pathway tend to have better outcomes. Comprehensive addiction treatment helps each individual author their own process of change and live a self-directed life.

Walk & Talk Sessions: (Heather and Casye only)

These sessions are held by Vervewell’s Heather Chandler and Casye LeRay. Join one of these therapists for a walk on the Trinity Trail (weather permitting and only earliest hours during the peak summer months), for not only a connected talk therapy session, but breaths of fresh air and sunshine, both proven to lift your psyche. What an empowering experience: nature AND talk therapy.