We’ll help you create profound, lasting change to live the connected, fulfilling life you deserve.
Our compassionate therapists, all trained in Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy—renowned for transforming couples on the brink of divorce—actively support and lovingly challenge partners to create real, meaningful change for a new path forward together.
Relational Life Therapy (RLT) is a form of couples and relationship therapy that focuses on not only helping you communicate better but also understanding why you react the way you do and teaches you the ongoing skills you can use to navigate conflict and cherish your relationship long after your time in therapy.
RLT was developed by Terry Real, a psychotherapist, speaker, and author who specializes in relationship concerns. RLT helps you move out of your knee-jerk reactions into a more compassionate and collaborative part of yourself.
Our RLT-certified therapists can help you build a life of healthy assertion and compassionate connection to yourself and those you love.
If you’ve struggled to get to the root of the issue, feel you’re stuck in a battle of who’s right, or maybe one of you doesn’t see there’s an issue at all, RLT may be able to help where other therapies have struggled.
RLT therapists take a lovingly direct approach, working with you to identify your dysfunctional behavioral patterns—and how they combine. We’ll teach you how to move out of reactivity and into the part of you who wants to work on the relationship. You’ll also learn essential relational skills, including healthy listening & responding frameworks to de-escalate conflict and winning strategies to nurture your connection and cherish your partner.
If you’ve felt stuck in your relationship despite trying other approaches, RLT offers the direct, compassionate intervention that can get to the heart of the problem and equip you with the skills to sustain intimacy for life.
Terry Real, LICSW, is an internationally recognized family therapist, bestselling author, and sought-after speaker.
A former senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in Massachusetts and a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows Institute in Arizona, Terry is renowned for his ability to save couples on the brink of divorce using the progressive approach he created, Relational Life Therapy.
RLT equips people with the powerful relational skills they need to cultivate meaningful connections—to themselves, each other, and the planet as a whole.
Via his esteemed training school, the Relational Life Institute, Terry has trained thousands of mental health practitioners in his RLT method to date.
His original insights on couples therapy, relationships, and men’s issues have been featured in outlets from Oprah and Vogue to The Today Show and CNN. His latest book is the New York Times bestseller, US: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship.
Unlike traditional therapy, Relational Life Therapy (RLT) doesn’t aim for neutrality or assume that every problem is 50/50. Some problems require holding one partner accountable while empowering the other.
RLT addresses both shame and grandiosity—helping the disempowered find their voice and guiding the dominant to soften, sparking profound transformation in yourself and your relationship.
Radical change starts with courage—courage to confront what isn’t working and to step into a more connected, fulfilling way of living.
Experience how our progressive approach to couples therapy can spark profound transformation in yourself and your relationship.
Relational Life Therapy operates in three powerful phases to produce deep, lasting change rapidly in individuals and in their relationships.
Relational Life Therapy operates in three powerful phases to produce deep, lasting change rapidly in individuals and in their relationships.
Through loving confrontation, we identify the behaviors and coping mechanisms that are sabotaging your happiness and connection.
Next, we guide you through deep inner child work, helping you heal from past hurts in the presence of your partner to create deep empathy and understanding.
Then, we teach essential relational skills to correct destructive cycles, navigate conflict with love, and develop nourishing closeness.
Relational Life Texas is dedicated to helping individuals and couples repair deep emotional wounds, confront harmful relational patterns and losing strategies, and transform their relationships.
Through honesty, respect, and pragmatic relational tools, we empower you to break free from old habits of control, isolation, and disconnection—creating lives rooted in mutual love, authentic collaboration, and relational integrity.
Transform Your Relationships With Us.
If you’re ready for a different kind of therapy—one that combines empathy with accountability and encourages real change—we invite you to take the next step.
Request a free consultation or learn more about how Relational Life Texas can help you and your partner experience the connection and fulfillment you deserve.
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May 17th and 18th, 2025
San Antonio, TX
