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Houston Marriage Counselor:
Ms. Barbara J. Reichlin,
M.A., LMFT, LPC
Barbara Reichlin, a Marriage and
Family Counselor for over thirty-five years, has been in full time
private practice since 1984. She offers private counseling
for both couples and individuals, and specializes in assisting
those who wish to find, keep, and/or restore healthy, fulfilling
primary love relationships in their lives.
Ms. Reichlin offers weekend
seminars for couples on an every 4 to 6 week basis. Barbara
is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Licensed Professional
Counselor, and a Certified Advanced Imago Relationship Therapist
and Couples Workshop Presenter.
COUPLES COUNSELING
Several options
exist for couples wishing to build or restore communication
and safety, repair a loss of connection and/or avoid an unwanted
divorce.
• Private
Couples Therapy
For couples in any stage of relationship. Meet with Ms.
Reichlin for private sessions, focused exclusively on your
relationship. In the beginning, weekly sessions are encouraged.
The first session, (and most subsequent sessions,) are 80
minutes.
• Couple
Intensives
Couples sometimes need
or desire more than the standard 80 minute session. Intensive
meetings, lasting four to six hours, or even several days,
can be tailored to meet your needs. Extended sessions may
be followed by several 80-minute sessions, or you may come
for several days in a row, two hours each day. This program
is helpful for people with difficult schedules, those who
travel, live far away or are in crisis.
• Weekend
Workshops for Couples This option is, hands
down, THE choice for couples seeking the greatest benefit
for the least investment of time and money. In just a little
over two days, enhance and divorce-proof your relationship
in a seminar format. (NOT group therapy! No self-disclosure
required; all work done in private.)
• Follow-Up
Groups For graduates
of ANY Getting the Love
You Want, Imago Weekend Workshop.
Monthly
Imago Follow-up Groups Saturday and weekday groups
to help you continue and integrate your Imago skills after
returning home from the weekend workshop.
THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES USED
Ms. Reichlin primarily utilizes two powerful methodologies in her work with couples: Imago Relationship Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy. The
toolbox, however, of any 35+ year veteran therapist will undoubtedly
contain a wide range of skills and expertise gleaned from
many years of experience and training. In Ms. Reichlin’s
case, this includes training in Solution
Oriented Therapy, Voice
Dialogue, Family Therapy,
Family of Origin Therapy,
and Sex Therapy.
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Ms. Reichlin
enjoys working with individuals as well as couples. In her
work with individuals, she integrates Imago with the use
of Voice Dialogue:
an amazing psychospiritual approach to consciousness and
transformation that facilitates an in-depth awareness and
understanding of the many selves that make up our psyche.
• Relationship
Issues: For anyone seeking
to improve their relationship skills or to improve or save
a marriage or committed love relationship.
• Divorce
Adjustment: For anyone
seeking to heal from a divorce or break-up of a comitted
love relationship.
• Therapy for
Singles: For single women
and men wishing to remove personal barriers to finding and/or
keeping a loving relationship in their lives.
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Length and Frequency of Sessions
Sessions are held on a once-a-week to once every two-week basis. Initial sessions are an hour-and-a-half.
Years of experience working
with couples have shown that the depth of discussion needed
to make significant change in a relationship is often difficult
to achieve in the standard
50 minute therapist hour. Thus, most couple sessions are also
an hour-and-a-half.
Individuals are seen either for an hour
or an hour-and-a-half, depending on their preference.
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Fees
Payment,
(check or cash), is due at the end of each session. Ms.
Reichlin's hourly fee is $150, making an hour-and-a-half couple session, $225.
Ms. Reichlin is not on any insurance provider lists, however,
policies that reimburse to out-of-network providers should
reimburse you for a portion of your sessions with her.
NOTE: If Ms. Reichlin's fee is a bit beyond your pocketbook, please email Ms. Reichlin and she will forward your email to two other excellent couples therapists in the Houston area who are able to accept clients at a somewhat lesser fee. Please put "Seeking names of lower fee couples therapists" in the title.
Click
for a listing of Houston agencies that provide a reduced fee
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Office Hours
First
appointments begin on the hour or half-hour. Therapy appointments
begin at ten minutes after the hour or half-hour
to provide Ms. Reichlin time between sessions.
In
general, office hours are:
Start Time
Last appointment begins at:
Tues
9:30am
4:40pm
Wed
9:30am
4:40pm
Thurs
11:00am
4:40pm
Friday
9:30am
3:40pm
Lunch hours are generally
available Tuesday - Friday.
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Professional Credentials
• Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist, Texas Lic. No. 445
• Licensed Professional Counselor,
Texas Lic. No. 3393
• Advanced Clinician, Imago Relationships
International, 1994
• Certified Couples Workshop Presenter,
Imago Relationships International, 1994
• Past President, Houston Area
Association Imago Relationship Therapists
• Clinical Member, American Association
of Marriage & Family Therapists • MA, Personnel Psychology,
Dept. of Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY 1966
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