I have an unstoppable passion for helping couples who are committed to making their marriage better — not just functional, but transformed.
But I want you to know that this passion did not begin in a classroom. It began in my own marriage.

I married young, believing love was enough — and that I already knew everything I needed to make my marriage work. It did not take long for unhealed wounds I did not even know I was carrying to begin quietly eroding what my husband and I were building together. Without the right knowledge, the right tools, or the right support, we found ourselves fighting each other instead of fighting for the covenant we had made. Seven years into our marriage, the right resources finally reached us. What happened next changed everything.

That turning point became the foundation of my calling. It is why I pursued doctoral training in Marriage and Family Therapy. It is why I became a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Certified Sex Therapist — because I learned firsthand that sexual disconnection and unhealed sexual wounds are among the most silent and most destructive forces working against a covenant marriage, and that most couples suffer through them alone because no one has created a safe space to address them. It is why I pursued specialized training in trauma — because I know what it is to carry wounds into a marriage that were never meant to be carried alone.
I do not sit with couples as a detached clinician. I sit with them as someone who has needed the same healing I now help others find.

My clinical practice, Make a Better Marriage, PLLC, specializes in helping married couples navigate the terrain that most practices are not equipped to address — the intersection of intimacy, sexuality, trauma, and faith. I work with couples who are experiencing emotional and sexual disconnection, trust erosion, infidelity recovery, desire discrepancy, sexual pain, pornography’s impact on marriage, and the long shadow of childhood sexual trauma on adult intimacy. I provide individual therapy for those healing from sexual trauma and working through the wounds that have followed them into their relationships.

My approach is holistic and explicitly faith-integrated. I draw on evidence-based clinical frameworks — including Gottman Method principles and trauma-informed practice — woven together with a deep biblical theology of covenant marriage and human sexuality. For clients who share my Christian values, faith is not an add-on to the clinical work. It is the lens through which we understand what is broken and what healing is designed to look like.
I provide virtual clinical services via secure telehealth to individuals and couples in Georgia and Texas. Marriage and relationship coaching is available to couples nationwide.

Specializations — what I treat
Couples therapy — emotional and sexual disconnection, conflict resolution, trust repair
Sex therapy — desire discrepancy, sexual pain, erectile dysfunction, pornography, intimacy breakdown
Childhood sexual trauma and its impact on adult relationships and marriage
Infidelity recovery and covenant restoration
Premarital counseling and conflict-resolution frameworks
Faith-integrated therapy for clients with Christian values
Individual therapy for trauma survivors
Training & Credentials
Full credential block — establishes clinical authority
Doctor of Philosophy — Marriage and Family Therapy
Amridge University, Montgomery, Alabama
Dissertation: Quantitative Investigation Examining Sexual Satisfaction in Married Christian Women with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Certified Sex Therapist (CST)
Institute of Sexual Wholeness / Richmont Graduate University, Atlanta, Georgia
Christian Association of Sexual Educators (CASE)
Master of Arts — Counseling
Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, Texas
Bachelor of Science — Social Work
Southern University A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Licenses & Certifications
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) — Georgia & Texas
Certified Sex Therapist (CST) — AASECT
Certified Trauma Specialist
Ordained Minister — licensed 2008, ordained 2020
Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator
CASE-Certified Covenant Lovers Instructor
Marriage Coach

My commitment to strengthening marriages extends well beyond the clinical hour.
I am a national keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and panelist — teaching on the subjects of Kingdom marriages, healing from sexual trauma, intimacy matters, sex therapy from a biblical perspective, and conflict resolution that protects the covenant. I have delivered workshops, seminars, training for ministry leaders, and lectures to couples, ministry leaders, and professional audiences across the country. I am the published author of Affirming the Father’s Gift: Reclaiming Sexuality (2019) — a devotional for women ready to reclaim a healthy, whole, and biblically grounded understanding of their sexuality. I also released the companion CD “Sex: God’s Gift — Affirmations for the Manifestation of Sexual Wholeness.”

Together with my husband, Reverend Marvin Stephenson, Sr., I co-host the Making Love-Better podcast — where we discuss practical, faith-integrated strategies for enhancing the relational and sexual dimensions of covenant marriage. Our content also appears on A Better Marriage Show on Roku television, reaching couples worldwide.
I serve as Co-Director of the Couples United Marriage Ministry within United Christian Faith Ministries (UCFM), where our team provides marriage enrichment, covenant restoration programming,and couples coaching.

If you have read this far, something in what I have shared has spoken to something you are carrying.
You do not have to keep carrying it alone. Whether your marriage needs clinical support, focused intensive work, premarital preparation, or coaching that meets you wherever you are — I have spent twelve years building the expertise and the framework to help you move forward. Not just survive your marriage. Restore it.
I would be honored to be part of that journey with you.”