You're Not Working With Someone Who Only Studied This. You're Working With Someone Who's Lived It.

Lived Experience

I know what it's like to have someone you love break your trust. The checking, the doubting, the exhausting work of deciding whether it's safe to stay. That was years ago, before I ever had the tools and support I now provide. Enough time and healing has passed that I can sit with a couple in the middle of their worst moment without it becoming about mine. But I haven't forgotten what it's like from the inside, and it's part of why this work matters to me the way it does. I'm TJ Johnson, author of A Couple's Guide to Connection, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I specialize in betrayal trauma and trust rebuilding; The hypervigilance, the shattered sense of safety, the way one discovery can rewrite everything a couple thought they knew about each other. My work is integrative and body-based, drawing on Emotionally Focused Therapy, the Gottman Method, Mindfulness, and Neurofeedback — because betrayal isn't only processed in the mind. It's held in the nervous system, in the body, in places talk therapy alone doesn't always reach. The Relationship Garden Method™ in A Couple's Guide to Connection, came out of that understanding. It's the framework I developed to help couples do more than survive betrayal — to actually rebuild the kind of trust where both people feel safe again, not watched and managed. I've also trained as a Prepare/Enrich facilitator and hold an approval as a Twogether in Texas provider — but more than credentials, what I bring into the room is the hard-won knowledge that repair is possible even when it feels unrecoverable. Especially then. The Rebuild Trust Intensive exists because I watched too many couples do everything right after betrayal— the disclosure conversation, the apology, the weekly sessions, and still not feel safe with each other months later. The format wasn't built for what betrayal trauma actually requires. So I built something that is: an intensive based on the integration of Gottman, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Inner Child Work, and neurofeedback, matched to what your nervous system and relationship actually need. If you're here, I don't think it's an accident. Some part of you already knows trust can be rebuilt. I'll be honored to help you find that out.