Therapist in Wellington, FL: Marriage Counseling, Trauma and Anxiety

Looking for marriage counseling or couples therapy in Wellington, FL? If your relationship is going through a difficult season, you are not alone, and help is available close to home. At New Reflections Counseling, P.A., our Wellington marriage counselors draw on skills from the evidence-based Gottman Method to help couples reconnect, rebuild trust, and strengthen their bond. Whether you are searching for a Wellington marriage counselor or couples therapy near you, we also provide holistic, personalized care to individuals and families across Wellington and the wider Palm Beach County area. Most clients can verify their insurance coverage before their first session. If emotions move faster than you can manage them, our DBT therapy in Wellington page covers that work.

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Why Choose a Therapist in Palm Beach County

Working with a local therapist in Palm Beach County means you gain a provider who understands the unique rhythms and pressures of life in South Florida. Our team offers a warm, private space where you can explore your concerns at your own pace. We tailor each treatment plan to your specific goals, drawing on evidence-based approaches so you receive care that truly fits your needs.

Therapy Services in Wellington

The support Wellington families ask us for most often is relationship work. That includes marriage counseling in Wellington, FL for couples who keep circling the same argument, couples therapy for partners rebuilding trust after a breach, and relationship counseling for those weighing whether to stay and repair. We also offer trauma therapy in Wellington, with EMDR available by secure video, and anxiety therapy for the worry, sleeplessness and physical tension that so often travels with it. See also our pages on grief counseling in Florida, LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy in Florida and therapy for borderline personality disorder in Florida.

If you are searching for a therapist Wellington families trust, our clinicians offer flexible in-person and telehealth appointments to fit your schedule. From individual therapy in Wellington to couples therapy and support for children and teens, we address a wide range of concerns with sensitivity and expertise. Our goal is to help every client build healthier relationships, develop practical coping skills, and move toward lasting change.

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Marriage Counseling and Couples Therapy in Wellington

This is the most common reason people in Wellington call us, and it usually starts at one of three points: the same argument keeps restarting, something happened that broke trust, or nothing is obviously wrong and the two of you have quietly become roommates.

We do not run open-ended venting sessions. Our couples work in Florida is Gottman-informed. Gottman Method work is most useful when the pressing problem is how the two of you fight, and it gives you specific things to practice between sessions. When the fight is never really about the thing you are fighting about, part of the work is finding out what it is about.

When trust has been broken by an affair, the early work is stabilizing things enough to talk at all, before trying to understand why it happened. Couples therapy after infidelity is slower than people want, and it is possible more often than they expect. Our guide to rebuilding trust after an affair explains what that work involves.

You should leave the first session knowing what we are actually working on. If you want the practices we most often assign at home, they are collected in our guide to building emotional intimacy.

Relationship Counseling When You Are Not Both Ready

Plenty of people search for relationship counseling in Wellington while their partner is unconvinced. Coming alone is worth more than most people expect. One person changing how they respond alters what the other person is reacting to, and it is often enough to shift a stuck pattern.

It is also the honest place to work out whether the problem is the relationship, the season you are both in, or something you brought with you. Individual therapy is the right container for that question.

Relationship Anxiety

Relationship anxiety is its own thing and it is badly served by general advice. It is the constant checking of where you stand, the reading of tone in a short reply, the relief that lasts an hour after reassurance and then drains away. It is exhausting to live with and exhausting to be on the other side of.

Reassurance does not fix it, because reassurance is the thing it feeds on. What changes it is understanding the attachment pattern driving it and building tolerance for uncertainty in small, deliberate steps. Our page on emotional safety and secure attachment covers what the other side of that looks like.

Trauma Therapy and PTSD

Trauma work is a significant part of what this practice does. That includes single-incident trauma such as an accident, an assault or a sudden loss, and the longer kind that builds up over years in an unsafe home or relationship.

Our clinicians work from a trauma-informed frame. In person at this office, trauma work is with Mina Salhia. We also offer EMDR by secure video, alongside the broader approaches on our trauma, PTSD and EMDR page. EMDR does not require you to narrate the event in detail, which is often what makes it possible for people who have found talking about it impossible. Stabilization comes first; anyone wanting to get straight to the worst memory in session two is going too fast.

Anxiety, Stress and Burnout

Anxiety around Wellington often arrives well disguised. The work gets done, the calendar is full, and nobody around you would guess. Underneath is a nervous system that has not properly been off in a long time, and a set of small avoidances that have quietly grown into a smaller life.

Treatment is not simply talking about it. It is changing the loop between what you predict, what your body does and what you then avoid, because the avoidance is what keeps the prediction alive.

Stress and burnout are related but not the same. Burnout is what happens when the demand has been high for long enough that recovery stopped working, and the fix is rarely a better morning routine. It usually involves looking squarely at the demand itself, which is the part people book therapy to avoid doing.

Depression

Depression is missed for longer than anxiety because it is quieter. It rarely announces itself as sadness. More often it is flatness, irritability, sleeping badly or too much, and gradually dropping the things you used to look forward to until the week has nothing in it you actually want.

Treatment usually starts with behavior rather than thought, because waiting to feel like doing something is how depression keeps its footing. Where medication would help, we offer psychiatry and medication management and will say plainly when we think it is worth considering.

Grief often looks like depression from the outside. If you are grieving a death, a divorce or another loss, our grief and loss counseling is available in person in Wellington or by secure video anywhere in Florida.

Wellington’s Season, and What It Does to Families

Wellington runs on a calendar most towns do not have. From January through spring the equestrian season fills the village — riders, grooms, trainers, owners and the families who move here for those months and leave again. It reshapes the year for a lot of households, and it produces a set of pressures we hear about often enough to name.

For families in the industry, the season means one parent effectively disappearing into work for four months while the other holds everything else. That is a recognizable couples pattern and it is workable, but it rarely resolves on its own, because each year the season arrives before last year’s conversation ever got finished. Couples who book in the summer, when there is room to think, generally get further than couples who call in February.

For the young people in it, there is a particular kind of pressure worth naming: a sport where the training is serious, the money is significant, the competition is constant, and the adults around you are heavily invested in the outcome. That is not the same as ordinary teenage stress, and treating it as though it were tends not to land.

And for the seasonal residents themselves, four months in a place where your whole network is temporary is its own kind of isolation, however comfortable the surroundings. Telehealth matters here more than usual — it means work started in Wellington in March does not have to stop in May.

What Sessions Cost in Wellington

Self-pay is $125 per individual session and $175 for couples or family sessions, each 45 to 50 minutes, and $200 to $250 for an extended 90-minute individual, couples or EMDR session. Psychiatric services are billed separately at $300 for an initial evaluation and $250 for a follow-up. We confirm your exact cost before the first appointment rather than after it.

We accept Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tricare, Curative, MultiPlan and Oscar. We do not accept Medicare or Medicaid. Coverage for couples work is less consistent than for individual therapy, since many plans pay only where a diagnosable condition is being treated. The insurance verification form is the fastest way to get a real number — our team contacts your plan directly and emails you what they say, usually within a couple of hours.

The Wellington Office

We are at 8461 Lake Worth Road, Suite 248, Wellington, FL 33467, with parking on site. It is a short drive from Royal Palm Beach, Loxahatchee, Greenacres, Lake Worth and Boynton Beach, and reachable from West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens. Directions and office details are on our Lake Worth Road office page.

In-person and secure telehealth are both available, and plenty of clients mix the two. In person at this office you would see one of our three in-person clinicians. Yasmyne “Mina” Salhia, MS, RMHCI, sees couples (including IFS couples work), families, children ages 11 and up (including art and play therapy) and individuals, including trauma, crisis and dependency. Kathy Altidor, MS, LMHC, sees families and premarital couples, and is certified in Prepare/Enrich; she also offers sessions in Haitian Creole. Jackeline Rodriguez, MSW, RCSWI, sees adults, teens and children individually, in English or Spanish. Every other Florida clinician, including those who offer EMDR, sees clients by secure video. Call (561) 288-0377 and we can tell you what in-person availability looks like for what you need.

Therapy in Haitian Creole (Kreyòl)

Byenvini. Ou ka fè terapi ou an kreyòl ayisyen isit la.

A woman from Lake Worth Beach can handle her bank, her child’s school and her own doctor in English without a second thought. Then she sits down to explain why she hasn’t slept since her father died, and the words she needs are in Kreyòl. For a lot of Palm Beach County families, that’s the gap: everyday English works fine, but the hardest things come out in the language you grew up in.

Kathy Altidor, MS, LMHC, a licensed mental health counselor in Florida, offers sessions in Haitian Creole or English. You can use whichever lets you say what you mean, and moving between the two is fine. She sees clients in person here at the Wellington office and by secure video anywhere in Florida.

In Haitian Creole, Kathy works with individuals and families, including children from age 11. She doesn’t see couples in Creole. She uses DBT skills and solution-focused therapy, plus art and play therapy with younger clients, in Creole as well.

To be straight about the limits: sessions in Haitian Creole are with one clinician, and she is taking new Creole-speaking clients. They’re available in Florida only. Other services, including medication management, are in English. Rates and insurance are the same as for any other session (see What Sessions Cost in Wellington, above). When you call (561) 288-0377 or write to us, say “Kreyòl” or “Haitian Creole” and we’ll match you with Kathy.

For clients who want their faith included, Christian counseling in Florida is available with Kathy Altidor, in person in Wellington or by telehealth.

What to Expect From Your First Session

Your first appointment with a therapist in Palm Beach County is a chance to share your story and begin building a trusting relationship. We take time to understand what brought you to therapy, discuss your goals, and outline a path forward that feels comfortable and realistic. There is no pressure and no judgment, only genuine support focused on your well-being.

Counseling in Wellington and the surrounding villages

Our office sits just east of the village on the western stretch of Lake Worth Road, at 8461 Lake Worth Rd, Suite 248, Wellington, FL 33467. That makes counseling in Wellington straightforward to reach from Olympia, Black Diamond, Binks Forest and the Mall at Wellington Green, as well as from neighboring Royal Palm Beach, Greenacres and Loxahatchee.

Coming from Lake Worth? Our Lake Worth therapist page has directions and what we offer.

Many clients split the difference between visits and secure telehealth, which works well if you are managing school drop-offs, shift work, or the drive along Forest Hill Boulevard at the wrong time of day. You can read more about our Florida counseling services or about the Lake Worth Road office itself.

Common Questions About Counseling in Wellington

Where exactly is the Wellington office?

Our Florida office is at 8461 Lake Worth Road, serving Wellington and the surrounding villages. It is a short drive from central Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, Loxahatchee, Greenacres and Lake Worth, with parking on site.

How much does marriage counseling cost in Wellington?

$175 for a couples session of 45 to 50 minutes, or $125 for an individual session. With insurance it depends on your plan — submit the verification form and we will tell you the real number before you book.

Do you offer evening appointments?

Yes, evening appointments are available by arrangement, and they go first. Daytime appointments are also available, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Say when you call what your realistic window is, including whether it changes during the season, and we will match you to someone who can actually hold that slot rather than booking you into something that falls apart in week three.

Can we start in person and continue by video?

Yes, and in Wellington a lot of people do. Seasonal residents often begin in the office and continue by secure video once they have left the area, and our clinicians are licensed across Florida so that continuity is straightforward within the state. If you move out of state, tell us and we will check whether we hold a license where you are going.

Do both partners have to want to come?

Both have to be willing to attend. Neither has to arrive convinced it will work. If one of you is only there because the other asked, say so in the first session — that is workable material, and much harder to work with when it stays unspoken.

Do you work with teenagers?

Yes. Teen therapy works best when the young person has some ownership of it, and we are direct with parents about that from the start, including what stays in the room and what does not.

Getting Started

You do not have to navigate life’s challenges alone. Whether you are looking for a therapist in Palm Beach County or a trusted therapist Wellington offers close to home, our team is ready to help. Reach out today to schedule an intake and take the first step toward a healthier, more balanced life.

New Reflections Counseling serves Palm Beach County residents through telehealth therapy — secure video appointments you can attend from home in West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Lake Worth, or anywhere in the county. We are in network with Aetna, Cigna, UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tricare, Curative, MultiPlan and Oscar. Call (561) 288-0377 or contact us online to get started.

We also see new mothers across Palm Beach County — see therapy for new mothers.

What holistic counseling actually means in practice, and what it does not, is set out on our holistic and somatic therapy page.

We do not offer EMDR in person at this office; it is by secure video, anywhere in Florida. See EMDR therapy in Florida for what a course of it looks like, including when we would stabilize first rather than begin reprocessing.

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