Couples coaching in Austin, Texas

Status quo is not enough.

This is not your typical couples therapy. Because honestly, who the hell has time for that? With us, you get direct, no-bullshit strategies and real-time support, built for high-achieving couples who are done managing symptoms and ready to fix the foundation.

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The assessment is free and takes about four minutes. Your answers are seen only by Jess and Lindley.

Jess Worthington and Lindley Gentile, leaning on a fence in the Texas sun.

Jess Worthington & Lindley Gentile. Licensed marriage and family therapists, 25 combined years of sitting with couples in crisis, now coaching couples who don’t have a year of weekly appointments to give it.

Sound familiar?

Different people. Different stories. Remarkably similar patterns.

  • You keep score.
  • You have the same fight with slightly different details.
  • Most conversations are about kids, schedules, or what needs to get done.
  • You touch less.
  • How did we get everything we wanted and somehow lose us?

Most couples aren’t broken. They’re unskilled. And skills can be learned.

Start by finding out what you do when things get hard. Get my personalized assessment

Two ways to work with us.

Both teach the same skills. The difference is pace, format, and how much of us you get.

A three-month program

Married, Better.

Marriage is a skill. Get better at it.

For the couple who built a pretty damn good life and somehow lost each other inside of it. Both of you, three months, alongside other couples doing the same work.

  • 8-module video curriculum.
  • Weekly coaching for men and women.
  • Live Office Hours.
  • Practical tools and exercises.

Our flagship

The 8-Week Intensive

Built around one couple. Yours.

For couples who want it fixed now, not someday. Several sessions a week with both of us, and a phone call away in between.

  • Several sessions a week, individual and joint.
  • Real-time access to both coaches between sessions.
  • A customized roadmap through all eight competencies.
  • Check-ins at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months.

We don’t manage symptoms. We rebuild the foundation.

Skills, taught in order

No endless processing. No vague advice to “communicate better.” No pretending a date night will fix years of resentment. Actual skills, taught in the order you need them.

Access while it’s happening

Insight at 10 a.m. doesn’t help much when the fight starts at 7:30 p.m. You bring us the fight, the question, the situation you don’t know how to handle. We help you figure out what to do next.

Two coaches. Both of you.

Jess leads the joint work, Lindley the individual work. Both partners are always on the field, so nobody is the project and nobody is the villain.

“Healthy, intimate relationships are the backbone of a successful life. When you get this relationship right, every other relationship in your life falls into place.”
Jess Worthington, LMFT

Jess Worthington, LMFT

Leads the joint couples sessions. Fifteen years with couples on the brink, rebuilt into something faster and more direct.

Lindley Gentile, LMFT

Lindley Gentile, LMFT

Leads the individual sessions. The one you want for the conversation most couples can’t have on their own.

More about Jess and Lindley

Book cover of How to Have the Best Fight of Your Life by Lindley Gentile and Jess Worthington

The book

The full method, on the page.

How to Have the Best Fight of Your Life is the framework our couples learn, distilled into a blueprint you can read in a weekend and use on Monday.

You built the life.
Now build the marriage that can hold it.

Four minutes tells you what you do when things get hard, and what to do instead. Or skip ahead and talk to us.