Online EFT Couples & Individual Therapy — Serving Houston & Chicago
Emotionally Focused Therapy for relationship healing, infidelity recovery, and individual growth — from wherever you are in Texas or Illinois
WHEN LOVE FEELS FRAGILE, HEALING IS POSSIBLE
At Ryan Psychotherapy Group, when couples and individuals come to us in those most fragile moments, they carry a question heavy with fear and doubt: Will we make it through this, or is this the beginning of the end? Choosing to show up — despite the pain and uncertainty, is the first flicker of light in a dark place.
Our therapists understand how exhausting it feels to reach for connection and be met with silence, defensiveness, or distance. The loneliness inside a struggling relationship, or the weight of carrying something painful entirely alone, is unlike any other. But that ache you feel is not a sign that healing is beyond reach. It is a sign that something in you still believes it’s possible — and that is exactly where healing begins.
How We Can Help
Our Services
Every relationship is its own story. Our work is tailored to yours — to your history, your wounds, and the future you're still reaching for.
Advanced Training · Gold Standard
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples
EFT isn't just a technique, it's a map back to each other. It helps couples identify the painful cycles that keep you stuck: the pursuing, the withdrawing, the silence that says everything. Through EFT, we replace those patterns with new ones rooted in safety and secure connection. This is the work that changes relationships at the deepest level.
Tailored to Your Dynamic
Couples Therapy
Every relationship hits a wall. Ours is to help you find the door. Couples therapy at Ryan Psychotherapy Group is shaped entirely around your history, your wounds, and your strengths; meeting you exactly where you are.
Affair Recovery
Infidelity & Betrayal
Betrayal breaks what felt unbreakable. Healing is possible — and it starts here.
For Married Couples
Marriage Counseling
Something has shifted. The conversations that once came easily now feel loaded, distant, or exhausting. We help married couples move past the surface arguments and into the deeper patterns quietly pulling you apart; rebuilding the foundation together.
Available Across Texas
Online Therapy
Real therapeutic work is available wherever you are in Texas. Distance is no barrier to real connection.Healing doesn't depend on a physical room — it depends on the right therapist.
Getting Started is simple:
Click the booking link below to schedule your initial appointment
Receive a link to our client portal to complete required documents prior to session time
Meet your therapist and share what’s bringing you in
Begin working toward the connection you’re looking for
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
I SEE YOU. I FEEL YOUR PAIN.
I know what it’s like to reach out and be met with cold resistance, followed by a painful retreat into silence. The space between you grows so wide it feels like an unbridgeable chasm. The hope of a relationship filled with mutual love and tenderness seems like a distant mirage — slipping further away with each passing day.
But here is the truth I want you to hold close — it is possible.
Even when your hearts feel broken and far apart, there is a way back — a way to rebuild trust, to rediscover love, and to feel close again.
meet Our Team
The People Behind This Practice
We are two therapists united by one conviction: that healing is possible, and that no one should have to navigate pain alone. Each of us brings something distinct to this work — but we share the same commitment to showing up fully for every person who walks through our door.
Rachelle Ryan, MA, LCPC, LPC, NCC
Director & Clinical Psychotherapist | Licensed in Texas & Illinois
Rachelle specializes in couples therapy using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), helping partners move through disconnection, conflict, and infidelity toward renewed trust and intimacy.
She also works with individuals navigating relationship-related struggles..
Cheyenne Palacios, MA, LPC-A
Clinical Psychotherapist | Licensed in Texas
(Supervised by Jeffrey Gallup, MA, LPC-S)
Cheyenne works with preteens, teens, young adults, and family-parent-child relationships.
She specializes in anxiety, trauma, life transitions, relationship difficulties & emotional challenges.
Invest in your care
We believe in transparency when it comes to the cost of therapy, so you can make an informed decision about your care.
Individual Therapy
With Cheyenne Palacios, LPC-A: $145 - $215 per session
With Rachelle Ryan, LCPC, LPC: $225- $250
Couples Therapy
With Rachelle Ryan, LCPC, LPC: $300- $325
We are a private-pay, out-of-networker practice. While we don’t offer sliding scale, we’re proud to partner with Give an Hour to provide pro bono therapy for those who qualify.
Using Insurance: As an out-of-network provider, we can supply a monthly Superbill, which you can submit to your insurance carrier for possible reimbursement. To make this easier, we’ve partnered with Mentaya, a free tool that lets you check your out-of-network benefits before you begin, so you know what to expect.
I’ve had the honor of walking this path with hundreds of couples who once stood exactly where you are — fragile, uncertain, scared. I deeply understand the ache of feeling lost and disconnected from the person you love most. You are not alone in this. I am here with you.
Together, we’ll work to reignite that quiet flame. I’ll be right there with you through the messy, painful, and beautiful process of understanding, forgiveness, and healing.
You’ll learn to listen not just with your ears, but with your whole heart — and to speak in a way that reaches deeply and transforms.
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It is an honor to help you through this
“It was as if she were working harder than we were, carrying us through the worst of it until we found our sea legs. She believed in our success when we weren’t sure what was going to happen. We experienced Rachelle’s passion. We are immensely grateful to her!”
Anonymous Client
“We love that Rachelle took an active approach with us. She helped us to communicate with each other in a way that we had never experienced.”
Anonymous Client
A seasoned expert in relationships
For more than 20 years,
I’ve witnessed couples turn despair into hope, brokenness into new beginnings — hearts once shattered now beating in harmony. It is a remarkable gift to witness couples like you reconnect, rebuild trust, and rediscover the intimacy that makes love come alive again.
With deep commitment to your healing journey, I have advanced training in two of the most effective, research-backed approaches in relationship therapy — The Gold-Standard Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the Gottman Method.
Together, these evidence-based methods create a compassionate, safe space where your emotional pains are acknowledged, your hopes are nurtured, and the foundation for trust and love can grow again.
~Rachelle Ryan