Anxiety, relational struggles, and feeling stuck can look like separate issues. In practice, they are often different expressions of the same underlying emotional patterns.
When you look at a list of therapy services, it can feel like you have to pick the one box that describes you. But human beings don’t work that way. The anxiety you feel at work, the codependency in your relationship, and the old family dynamics that still trigger you are rarely separate problems. They are overlapping patterns.
Whether you come in for trauma, a major life transition, or just a persistent sense that something is off, my approach works holistically. We don’t just manage the surface-level symptom. We go to the emotional layer where the pattern was formed, and we change it there.
For people who understand their anxiety well, what triggers it, and where it comes from, but find that understanding hasn’t made it any less disruptive.
Learn more →Developmental and relational trauma that shows up in present-day patterns. We may address this through EMDR and Coherence Therapy, both of which work at the level where emotional learning actually changes.
Learn more →Focused specifically on the relational and codependency patterns many men carry: people-pleasing, overextension, and the pull of enmeshment. This goes beyond generic “men’s issues.”
Learn more →Family-of-origin patterns that follow people into adult relationships. We approach this through a specific clinical framework for enmeshment treatment, backed by deep experience with codependency work.
Learn more →Work on the relational patterns that keep showing up — whether you're navigating them individually or with your partner. We go deeper than communication skills to address what's actually driving the difficulty.
Learn more →Long-standing patterns of reacting, relating, and coping that feel deeply ingrained. We may work with these through Schema Therapy and IFS at the emotional level where they were formed.
Learn more →When depression isn’t just about mood, something underneath it is driving it. Our work focuses on that underlying layer.
Learn more →Major change has a way of surfacing what was already there: identity questions, old patterns under new pressure, and uncertainty about who you’re becoming.
Learn more →Work for the adult parent, not child therapy. We address the patterns, triggers, and family-of-origin dynamics that shape how you show up in your own parenting.
Learn more →I work with adults 18+ for individual therapy, relationship issues (individuals and couples), and adult families, including adult teens (18+) within a family context. Sessions are available in-person in Dallas and via telehealth for Texas residents.
The people I work best with are ready to look beneath the surface of the issue they came in for. If you’re willing to track the emotional patterns underneath the problem, this approach is a strong fit.
Alex Cohan, MS, LPC Associate (Texas #97785), NCC. Supervised by Erin Wysong-Warren, LPC-S, through the Institute for Relational Recovery, Dallas, TX.
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