About We Thrive Together

Why Couples and Families Choose We Thrive Together

We built this practice around a simple belief — as humans, we all need help in relationship with others and the people we serve deserve the most skilled support. Here's how that shows up.

Specialized training — not general practice.

Every therapist at We Thrive Together holds post-graduate specialty training in the work they do. Each has completed at minimum the EFT Externship and connects in a weekly collegial support group focused on couples therapeutic work.

Deeply trained, genuinely present, and fully invested in the couples she works with.

Beth Collins holds advanced post-graduate training in EFT Core Skills and Externship, AIRM Affair Recovery through Emotionally Focused Therapy, Broken Bonds Attachment Injury Resolution through EFT, EFT with Highly Conflicted Couples, Hold Me Tight Workshop Facilitation, Support Facilitation for EFT Externship Training, and Relational Life Therapy for narcissistic relationship patterns. Prior to couples work as a Certified Trauma Therapist and trained EMDR therapist she focused on both men and women’s trauma processing. She is currently completing her certification as a Couples Infidelity Repair Specialist. These are intensive post-graduate training programs that represent years of focused investment in complex relational work.

A veteran who gets military couples — from the inside.

Chris Biddix spent 20 years in the Navy before becoming a licensed therapist. There is no other couples therapist in the Fredericksburg area who brings that combination of lived military experience and clinical EFT and EMDR training. Military and first responder couples don't have to explain themselves here. Chris already understands.

A specialist in what happens to couples when parenting gets hard.

Beverly Lemmons brings something rare — EFT, EFFT, and EMDR training combined with years of school social work, psychiatric experience, and parenting support across developmental stages. She understands the systems families navigate — diagnoses, IEPs, school-based mental health — and what that weight does to the relationship between partners. When parenting stress starts quietly pulling a couple apart, Beverly holds a dedicated space for the two of you to find your footing together.

The only certified Girls Circle program in Fredericksburg.

Our Girls Circle groups are facilitated by certified Girls Circle facilitators — one of the only certified programs of this kind in the area. This is not a generic girls group. It is a researched, structured, developmentally specific program with decades of evidence behind it.

Founded by people who have done the work themselves.

Founded by people who have done the work themselves.

Beth and Tim Collins built this practice from the inside out — as a couple who came together carrying the weight of previous marriages, old wounds, and the particular complexity of blending a family from the beginning. What they built together required real work — not to repair what was broken between them, but to make sure the patterns and pain they each carried didn't quietly shape what they were trying to create. What they offer doesn't come from just a textbook. It comes from their own hard work on their relationship journey.

A practice with a clear philosophy.

We don't pathologize relationships. We don't assign blame. We don't believe you or your partner is the problem. We believe the pattern is the problem — and patterns can change.