LMFT, 6 years of experience
Hi! I'm a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Texas with 6 years of experience. I help individuals, couples, and families learn to love and relate to one another in a more healthy and secure way based on a deeper understanding of each other’s experience and application of new skills. My clients seek me out when they've been experiencing relational distress and are unable to improve it on their own. You might consider me if you've tolerated your situation for years and the thought of continuing is so painful that you're on the brink of ending or cutting off the relationship unless things change.
In our first session, I'll want to learn more about your current situation and relevant history. Then we'll talk about your goals and expectations for therapy. This will help me share an initial impression of how I might help you and prepare a treatment plan to review at our next session.
When it comes to relationships, I don't judge or take sides. Instead, I try to make sense of and validate each person's unique experience without invalidating the other. With more understanding and acceptance, you're in a much better position to adapt and create the future you desire.
I'm best positioned to serve individual, couple, or family clients experiencing relational distress that they are unable to resolve on their own. There is often something more underneath this level of distress; like insecure attachment styles, dysfunctional coping, personality disorders, or other mental health issues. It's usually a relief to those who reach out for help to finally get the support they need.
Peggy Yoder offers therapy covered by UnitedHealthcare/Optum - Medicaid in Texas.
An Integrative approach combines assumptions and techniques from two or more treatment methods to help clients explore and adapt their thoughts, feelings, and actions to fit their unique biological, interpersonal, social, and cultural environments.
EFT helps clients discover how their reactive thoughts and feelings create and perpetuate emotional distance in relationships and what to do instead to create connection and closeness based on attachment theory and science.
Gottman Method for Couples helps couples manage conflict, enhance friendship and intimacy, and build a life together that's mutually satisfying.
SFBT helps clients facilitate desired change by focusing on the positive, the solutions, and the future through a collaborative dialogue.
DBT helps clients learn and apply skills in mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance to reduce the impact of their experience with problems, misery, and distress.