In-Person in Fredericksburg and Stafford, Virginia
Online anywhere in Virginia and beyond
Couples & Family Therapy & Services
in Fredericksburg, Virginia — and Online Across Virginia
For couples who want to stop having the same fight.
For families who want to find their way back to each other.
Maybe you and your partner are stuck in a cycle you can't seem to break — the same argument, the same silence, the same distance that keeps growing no matter how hard you try.
Maybe your family is in crisis — a teenager who has completely shut down, a relationship that has never recovered from something that happened, a home that feels less like safety and more like a battlefield.
Maybe you're a veteran or first responder and the tools that kept you safe at work are now creating distance in the relationship you care most about.
Or maybe you just know something needs to change — and you're finally ready to do something about it.
We Thrive Together was built for exactly this moment. We specialize in couples therapy, marriage counseling, couples contemplating divorce counseling, family therapy, and structured groups for teens and adults — in person in Fredericksburg, Virginia and online across the state.
Connection shapes everything.
When relationships feel strained — at home, in parenting, or within yourself — everything feels heavier. Here's how we help.
Our Services
Couples Counseling/Marital Therapy
Are you longing to feel close again — but stuck in the same painful cycle?
Most couples don't fall apart dramatically. They drift — the same argument on repeat, the silence that grows a little longer each time, the distance that neither of you planned for and neither of you knows how to close.
Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we help couples:
Break pursue-withdraw patterns
Rebuild trust and emotional safety
Strengthen communication
Restore closeness and intimacy
Rediscover the friendship underneath the conflict
This is structured, research-based couples therapy focused on lasting change — not just better arguments but a genuinely different way of reaching for each other.
We offer specialized support for affair recovery, high conflict couples, considering divorce counseling, premarital counseling, & patterns or military and first responder stress.
Family Workshops
Some family relationships need more than a conversation. They need a dedicated space, skilled guides, and the courage to show up honestly together.
Hold Me Tight® / Let Me Be Me — Parents and adult children. For parents and adult children ready to repair old wounds, redefine the relationship, and find their way back to each other. Structured, safe, and genuinely transformative for families willing to do the work.
Hold Me Tight® / Let Me Go — Parents and teens. For parents and teenagers navigating the delicate work of holding on and letting go at the same time. Builds connection and communication at exactly the season when both feel most difficult.
Family Therapy
Every family hits seasons that test them. We help families move through those seasons without losing each other in the process.
When parenting feels like a constant negotiation, when a teenager has shut down, or when blending a family is harder than anyone told you it would be — the whole household feels it. And when one relationship in the family shifts, everything else shifts with it.
We work with the whole family system — helping everyone feel heard, understood, and connected again.
We help families:
Slow reactive cycles
Strengthen attachment bonds
Improve communication
Create a more secure foundation at home
repair ruptures and rebuild trust
We also offer dedicated counseling for couples navigating the relational impact of raising kids through hard seasons.
Adult Groups
She Thrives — A structured group experience for women who want to grow — in self-understanding, in connection with other women, and in how they show up in the relationships that matter most.
The Forge Men’s Circle — A place for men who want to grow — in self-awareness, in how they lead at home, and in genuine connection with other men and their closest relationships.
Adult D&D Therapy Group — A spot for adults to connect in collaborative storytelling and role-play create genuine connection, build real emotional skills, & make the work feel like something worth showing up for.
Couples Workshops
Some of the most significant shifts happen not in weekly sessions but in concentrated experiences — when you step out of your daily life and do something intentional together.
Before We — Half-Day Self -Focused Workshop
Before couples can change what happens between them each partner learns what they bring into the room.
Hold Me Tight® —
Dr. Sue Johnson's internationally recognized couples workshop — that helps couples break painful cycles and rebuild emotional safety and closeness.
Created for Connection —
Hold Me Tight with a Christian foundation. For couples who want emotional and spiritual intimacy honored in the same room.
Rooted and Reaching —
Beth & Tim's Signature Couples Workshop Series. Intensive work to take your connection to a deeper and more secure normal.
Building a Lasting Connection® —
Premarital workshop for engaged couples to build something that lasts.
Teen Groups
Teens grow differently in community — when the space is structured, affirming, and actually designed for them.
Girls Circle Groups — Certified through One Circle Foundation, Girls Circle provides research-supported group for girls navigating identity, friendships, social media, & emotional growth.
D&D Therapy Groups — Led by trained Geek Therapists, uses collaborative storytelling to build social skills, emotion regulation, and confidence in a supportive environment.
ASSET LGBTQ+ Teen Group — A structured, affirming support group for LGBTQ+ teens ages 15 and older focused on resilience, identity, and healthy peer connection.
Why We Thrive Together?
What makes us different is simple — specialization.
Every therapist at We Thrive Together holds post-graduate specialty training in the work they do.
Beth Collins brings advanced training in EFT, affair recovery, discernment counseling, working with highly conflicted couples, and Relational Life Therapy for narcissistic relationship patterns — training that represents years of focused investment in the most complex relational work there is..
Chris Biddix is a retired Navy veteran with 20 years of service. That combination of lived military experience and clinical EFT and EMDR training is rare — and it changes everything about how this work feels for the couples who need it most.
Beverly Lemmons Beverly Lemmons brings EFT and EFFT 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. Her specialty in Parenting as Partners fills a gap that most practices don't address — a dedicated space for couples navigating the relational impact of raising children through difficulty.
We are a private-pay relational therapy practice. We made that choice deliberately — because deep relational work requires flexibility, time, and freedom from the constraints of insurance-driven care. Insurance-based individual therapy is offered separately through our sister practice, Thrive Counseling for Healing and Connection.
Our Team
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Beth Collins, LCSW, CTT
Couples Therapist
Practice Owner
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Tim Collins, CLC
Men’s Group Facilitator
Practice Owner
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Beverly Lemmons, LCSW
Couples and Family Therapist
Intern Supervisor
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Chris Biddix, LPC
Couples Therapist
Men’s Group Facilitator
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Michaela Glowacki, MSW
Clinical Social Work Supervisee
Girls’ Group Facilitator
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Scott Foor, MSW
Clinical Social Work Supervisee
D&D Group Facilitator
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Kay Portmess, M Ed.
Artist and Teacher
Women’s Group Facilitator
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Crystal Muir
MSW Intern
Girls’ Group Facilitator
Gold Standard Treatment
Moving You & Yours to a Brighter Future.
EFCT
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) is a structured, evidence-based approach that helps couples move from disconnection and distress to deeper emotional intimacy. Grounded in attachment theory and supported by decades of research, EFCT identifies the negative patterns that keep partners stuck and helps them create new cycles of connection, responsiveness, and trust. Research shows that 70 to 75 percent of couples move from distress to recovery — and approximately 90 percent show significant improvement.
EFFT
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is an evidence-based model designed to repair and strengthen relationships between family members. Rooted in attachment science, EFFT helps families identify reactive patterns, reduce conflict, and create new ways of engaging that foster safety, connection, and trust. It offers a structured yet flexible approach to healing emotional injuries and restoring balance within the family system.
Hope for a new way forward — you don’t have to stay stuck.
You may feel like you've tried everything — talking more, shutting down, compromising until you're exhausted — and yet the same arguments, silence, or disconnection keeps returning.
Or maybe you're locked in constant battles with your teenager, overwhelmed with worry about their future and their choices.
Or something happened in your relationship that changed everything — and you've never fully recovered.
Through trauma-informed, attachment-based therapy, groups, workshops, and intensives, we help you understand the patterns keeping you stuck and support you in creating the emotional safety, clarity, and communication you need to heal your relationships — starting from the inside out.
Whether you're seeking couples therapy, marriage counseling, family therapy, or structured group support — We Thrive Together is here to help you reconnect, rebuild, and rise.
Ready to take the first step?
Our team responds within one business day. No pressure, no commitment — just a conversation about what you're navigating and who might be the right fit.
Tell Us What You're Navigating — We'll Help You Find the Right Fit