Love Seat Counseling & Life Coaching provides premiere counseling services and The Gold Standard in Couples Therapy. By using our combined expertise in evidence-based treatments, we offer support, trust, and compassion, to help make you feel safe, seen, and understood. This sets you up for success to meet your goals while growing emotionally and personally.
Meet The Founder
The Love Seat Counseling & Life Coaching was founded by Risper Wangari, Marriage and Family Therapist, MBA, LPC, Certified EFT Couples Therapist, with a vision of creating a practice where relationships are treated with depth, care, and respect. Risper’s work is grounded in attachment science and evidence-based therapy, with a belief that healing and lasting change happen through secure, meaningful connection.
After experiencing the transformative power of therapy in her own life, Risper felt called to build a space where individuals and couples could receive high-quality, compassionate care, and where clinicians could grow, collaborate, and thrive. The Love Seat was created as a community of relationally focused therapists committed to helping clients break painful patterns, repair trust, and build stronger emotional bonds.
Risper has intentionally built and mentored a team of skilled clinicians who share this vision. Our therapists are carefully selected, deeply trained, and committed to walking with you toward healing and connection. Each therapist brings their own strengths, training, and heart to the work, allowing clients to find the right fit for their unique needs and goals.
Risper currently works with couples exclusively through intensives
Meet the team walking alongside you.
Each clinician brings unique strengths while sharing a relational, trauma-informed approach to therapy. Our therapists are compassionate, deeply attuned, and committed to creating a safe, collaborative space for meaningful change. Not sure who's right for you? Take our Therapist Matching Quiz →
Elizabeth Wilson
Couples Therapy · Affair & Betrayal Recovery · Infertility & Relationship Stress · Christian Counseling
Helps couples heal after betrayal, reconnect through difficult seasons, and strengthen communication and emotional connection.
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Laurel Darowski
Couples Therapy · Emotionally Focused Therapy · Grief & Loss · Chronic Illness & Medical Family Therapy
Specializes in neurodiverse couples and families, differences in communication, grief, caregiving, trauma, and major life transitions.
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Devin Johnson
Relational Repair · Trust Building · Men's Emotional Wellness
Specializes in relational distress, trauma & PTSD and people navigating grief, identity shifts, or hard life transitions.
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Unique Williams
Couples Therapy · Intimacy & Sexual Connection · Conflict Resolution
Helps couples repair, reconnect, understand one another, and strengthen intimacy & sexual connection.
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Daneshia Moten
Communication Repair · Faith Integration · Premarital
Holistic, psychosociospiritual approach to couples work. Helps partners understand the deeper emotions shaping their connection.
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Sam Goldenberg
Affair Recovery · Sex Therapy · Communication Repair
Works with couples navigating betrayal, intimacy challenges, and communication breakdowns. EFT and Gottman trained.
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CheVaughn Johnson
Couples Therapy · Premarital Counseling · Military & Veteran Families
Passionate about supporting the helpers, leaders, and “strong ones” who hesitate to ask for help themselves.
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Crys Wood
Affair Recovery · Sexual Intimacy · Communication Repair
Specializes in betrayal trauma, attachment injury repair, and helping couples rebuild physical and emotional closeness.
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Callie Hall
EMDR · Trauma · Grief & Loss · Christian Counseling
Deep expertise in trauma processing and EMDR. Also offers faith-integrated counseling for individuals and couples seeking Christian-centered care.
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John Pecina
Blended Family Counseling · Conflict Cycles · Men's Issues · EFT
Specializes in veterans, service members, and their families, couples stuck in argument cycles, men ready to do inner work.
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Carla James
Couples Intensives Only
Skilled in intensive formats, EFT, and Gottman Method. Also helps couples who are unsure whether to stay or go through discernment counseling.
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Our Client Care & Intake Team is here to support you from your very first step. They help answer questions, guide you through next steps, and coordinate your intake so getting started with therapy feels clear, supported, and welcoming.
Committed to Your Success
Are you ready to feel in control of your relationship, thoughts, feelings, and life? You’re ready to change you, your relationship or family and you may not know how to start. Opening yourself up to ask for help so that you can have a richer life or relationship takes a lot of courage. We’re a group of Texas therapists dedicated to helping you maximize your strengths, meet your goals, and thrive.