Meet your betrayal trauma specialist

You are not working with someone who only studied this.

TJ Johnson brings lived understanding, clinical training, and a calm place to do the work that asks the most of a relationship.

TJ Johnson, founder of Break Free Couples Institute

TJ Johnson, M.Ed., LMFT

Lived experience. Professional depth. A steady room.

TJ knows the exhausting work of deciding whether it is safe to stay. That experience is part of why this work is held with both tenderness and clear structure.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, TJ specializes in betrayal trauma and trust rebuilding. The approach integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, mindfulness, somatic work, inner-child work, and neurofeedback.

TJ is also the author of A Couple’s Guide to Connection: From Roommates to Romance in Just 10 Minutes a Day, creator of the Relationship Garden Method™, a Prepare/Enrich facilitator, and an approved Twogether in Texas provider.

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Body-based repair

Betrayal is not held only in the story. The work makes room for the physical experience of safety, reactivity, shame, and connection.

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Both partners matter

Each partner gets space to be heard and a clear role in building something more honest and more secure.

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Care that continues

The intensive creates momentum. The weeks that follow help turn insight into a relationship you can actually live in.

The setting matters

A room designed to let your nervous system settle.

Private, neutral, and unhurried. Every part of the experience is made to help couples stop performing and begin speaking honestly.

Warm, quiet counseling room in Frisco

A clearer next step

Begin with a conversation

A free discovery call is the simplest way to find out whether this work fits your relationship.