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Explore evidence-based therapy modalities used virtually in Texas & California and in-person in Ft. Worth/Hurst, TX, including CBT, trauma-informed care, and recovery-focused approaches personalized for you.

Real Progress, Real Tools

Healing Tools for Every Stage of Life

At Breaking the Cycle Therapy, we believe the path to healing looks different for everyone. That’s why we use a range of therapeutic modalities, each thoughtfully chosen to support your personal, relational, or recovery-focused goals.

Your Healing, Your Way

How We Tailor Treatment to You

Our experienced clinicians use a variety of evidence-based modalities to help you move forward in life. From EMDR to existential therapy, we build each approach to align with your story, strengths, and goals—because real healing starts with the right fit.

Work Life Balance

Chronic stress and burnout aren’t just professional problems; they’re emotional ones. We help clients establish boundaries, prioritize well-being, and explore the deeper patterns disrupting balance between career, family, and self.

Codependency Patterns

When helping others comes at your expense, therapy can offer clarity. We address codependency by exploring early relational dynamics, restoring healthy boundaries, and helping you reclaim your identity and voice within relationships.

Person Centered

Rooted in empathy and unconditional positive regard, this approach allows clients to lead their own healing journey. Through person-centered therapy you’ll find a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore emotions, build self-trust, and reconnect with your authentic self.

Positive Psychology

Rather than focusing solely on what’s wrong, we help you identify your strengths, cultivate optimism, and align with your values. Positive Psychology supports resilience, purpose, and emotional vitality, and it’s especially helpful when moving forward from life challenges.

Psychodynamic

Your past can always influence and inform your present, but it doesn’t have to control your future. Psychodynamic therapy uncovers unconscious patterns, attachment wounds, and early influences to help you gain insight and create lasting emotional change.

Existential

When life feels directionless, existential therapy invites you to confront meaning, mortality, and personal responsibility. It’s a powerful tool for navigating identity shifts, grief, spiritual unrest, and any perceived absurdity of life with courage and clarity.

12 Step Recovery

We honor the structure, spirituality, and support found in 12-step recovery. Our therapists integrate these principles with clinical insight to help clients build accountability, self-awareness, and real change that lasts both inside and outside of the therapy room.

EMDR Therapy

Trauma isn’t just remembered, it’s often stored in the body. EMDR helps process painful memories using bilateral stimulation which helps to reduce emotional intensity and allows the brain to rewire itself for healing, safety, and empowerment.

CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and reshape unhelpful thinking patterns that drive unwanted behaviors. Through practical tools and guided reflection, we use CBT to help you overcome distorted beliefs, build coping skills, and create meaningful change in how you respond to life’s challenges.

DBT

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) combines mindfulness with skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. We use DBT to help you with navigating intense emotions by creating space between reaction and response. This also serves to support long-term emotional balance and self-acceptance.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Focuses on helping the individual accept their unwanted intrusive thoughts (the Obsessions) rather than fighting them. It promotes mindfulness and helps the client commit to actions aligned with their values, regardless of the presence of the thoughts

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Focuses on identifying and changing the negative interaction cycles that keep couples stuck. It aims to create a more secure emotional bond by helping partners express their deeper feelings and needs, primarily around attachment.

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

A research-based approach that helps couples disarm conflict, increase intimacy, respect, and affection, and remove barriers to closeness. It focuses on building the “Sound Relationship House,” which includes skills like “turning toward” bids for connection and managing conflict effectively.

Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy (CBCT)

Focuses on changing the maladaptive thoughts and behaviors that contribute to relationship distress. It involves identifying negative communication patterns and irrational beliefs, then teaching skills for problem-solving, communication, and emotional expression.

Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)

An evolution of CBCT that adds an emphasis on acceptance and tolerance for differences and inevitable distress. It helps couples understand the patterns of conflict and learn to accept what they cannot change while still working on change where possible.

Bowenian Multigenerational Therapy

We offer Bowenian multigenerational therapy to help individuals and families understand how inherited emotional patterns shape current relationships. Rooted in family systems theory, this approach encourages differentiation of self, emotional clarity, and the healing of intergenerational dynamics. Whether you’re navigating family conflict, anxiety, or seeking deeper insight into your relational history, this therapy offers a compassionate path toward transformation.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy invites individuals to explore the stories they carry, those shaped by culture, family, and lived experience, and to re-author them with intention and care. This approach honors your voice, values, and resilience, helping you separate from limiting narratives and embrace new possibilities rooted in truth, healing, and hope.

Experiential Therapy

“Our child was struggling with anxiety, and we didn’t realize how our unhealed trauma was contributing to it. Family therapy at Breaking The Cycle helped us unpack generations of dysfunction and learn how to love without control.”

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