LOVE THAT WORKS™
Trauma-Informed Connection for Individuals, Couples, and Families
About Us
Trauma-Informed Connection for Individuals, Couples, and Families
When communication breaks down, it’s rarely a lack of effort or love.
More often, it’s a nervous system that doesn’t feel safe and attachment wounds that have never been repaired.
When communication breaks down, it’s rarely a lack of effort or love.
More often, it’s a nervous system that doesn’t feel safe and attachment wounds that have never been repaired.
Why Love Stops Working
Many people come to therapy saying:
- “We keep having the same fights.”
- “I shut down or get overwhelmed.”
- “We love each other, but we can’t connect.”
- “Talking makes things worse, not better.”
They are protective responses shaped by past experiences, trauma, and unmet attachment needs.
Insight alone isn’t enough.
Lasting change happens when the body and brain feel safe enough to stay present.
Our Approach
Love That Works™ integrates Imago Relationship Therapy with neuroscience-based tools that support regulation, repair, and healing.
We work with individuals, couples, and families to help them:
- Regulate the nervous system during emotional conversations
- Communicate without escalation, shutdown, or defensiveness
- Repair relational ruptures safely
- Heal attachment wounds without overwhelm
- Rebuild trust, connection, and emotional safety
HOW IT WORKS
How It Works
🧠 Imago Relationship Therapy
Creates a safe, structured way to communicate—so both people feel heard, validated, and understood without blame or reactivity.
🌀 EMDR
Helps process unresolved trauma and emotional triggers that interfere with connection, communication, and intimacy.
⚡ Gray’s 3™
A practical, daily regulation tool that stabilizes the nervous system and supports emotional resilience between sessions.
🌿 Neurofeedback
Supports brain regulation and flexibility, making it easier to stay calm, focused, and emotionally available in relationships.Together, these approaches help people stay connected instead of protected.
Who This Is For
Love That Works™ supports:
- Individuals healing relational or developmental trauma
- Couples experiencing conflict, disconnection, or mistrust
- Families navigating emotional reactivity or breakdowns in communication
- People wanting deeper, safer, more meaningful relationships
- Those in recovery and those not—because connection is a human need, not a diagnosis
What Becomes Possible
When the nervous system is regulated:
- Conversations feel safer
- Conflict becomes repairable
- Emotional closeness returns
- Trust can be rebuilt
- Relationships stop feeling exhausting
Love doesn’t have to hurt to be real.
It can be safe, regulated, and healing.
Begin the Work
Whether you’re working individually, as a couple, or as a family, Love That Works™ offers a path toward connection that is sustainable and real.
Regulation first.
Connection follows.
Healing lasts.
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Contact Us
- 1525 Lakeville Dr. Kingwood, Texas 77339
- www.integratedpathwaysgroup.com
- +1-281-223-3421
- kdgray8@gmail.com
- M-F 9-6
Email or text is best way to reach me. I am in session during the day and I am unable to answer the phone. https://www.lovethatworks.net
Team
Kathy Gray
Therapist Co-Owner
Kathy Gray is an LPC, LMFT, OTA Certified IMAGO Relationship Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, Consultant and Presenter, with a focus on brain processing and regulation. She developed Gray’s 3, a highly effective treatment protocol that helps rewire the brain by changing emotional responses and behaviors. Gray’s 3 has shown success in treating PTSD, trauma, addiction, eating disorders, and other hard-to-treat diagnoses. Kathy and her colleague Saundra present both locally and internationally in Imago Relationship Therapy, teaching tools that help participants develop sustainable connection that can transform their lives through improved coping and communication skills.
Saundra Dickinson
Therapist Co-Owner
Saundra Dickinson is a Certified IMAGO Relationship Therapist, Certified IMAGO Workshop Presenter, Certified EMDR Therapist, LPC, LMFT, NCC. She specializes in all areas of human relationships including couples, families and individuals. Saundra has been trained and mentored by many who have become the best in their fields, to name a few: Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt who pioneered IMAGO Relationship Therapy and that is now known and used worldwide as the Gold Standard for all relationships, Pia Mellody for her Addiction, Codependence and Inner Child work, Terry Real for his Relationship Rescue work, and countless EMDR trainers who have turned the light on with trauma so that it does not become a debilitating disease that permanently stifles one’s life. Her book about relationships, Love That Works: The 12 Foundation Stones, is available in all bookstores and online.
Kristi Brown
Coach, Certified Mediator
Kristi L. Brown, BA, MA, Certified Mediator, Life Coach has specialized for over 30 years working with individuals and families, challenging issues including depression, anxiety, addiction, confrontation and conflict. She has assisted, and been an asset, in IMAGO Relationship Workshops. Kristi has an exceptional ability to facilitate families dealing with stressful circumstances and conflict while honoring their personal space as unique individuals.
Services
Individual Therapy
A Journey You Don’t Have to Make Alone. Individual therapy is a very personal journey. People seek therapy when they’re struggling to make sense of their life and who they are. Many times, they’re unsure of where to begin, or what is really missing or wrong. They’re “not happy” or “fulfilled” in their overall lives. Discover Who You Are with Individual Therapy Individual therapy helps you explore your coping, communication, and relationship patterns. You’ll be able to identify even the smallest glitch that’s causing you unhappiness or wholeness. Discover enhanced, emotional well-being in a safe, supportive environment that leads to positive feelings, including improved confidence, empowerment, and self-growth. Individual therapy helps you from feeling ‘stuck’ to feelings of successful and accomplishment through your life journey.
Specialties
Couples Therapy
Become the Most Connected Couple You Know Feeling alone when you aren’t alone? Maybe you’re misunderstood, scared, and unable to connect with your partner – longing for the fun and exciting life you once had. Are you over the anger, contempt, and the feeling that you can do nothing right? It’s exhausting trying to communicate with no empathy or respect. Many couples find themselves in these situations, having these same feelings. The disconnect makes you wonder if the marriage was ever real or just a bad dream. These feelings of hopelessness and the desperate desire for connection may lead you and/or your partner to seek guidance and help with this journey. I can help!
Specialties
Family Therapy
Family life… it can be a challenge. Maybe you’re having a difficult time communicating with your children. They don’t want to express and share their feelings about what’s happening in their lives. You and your partner argue over how to discipline or parent your children. When you try to work out your differences, are family members so busy talking over one another, waiting their turn to defend their position? It’s time to work together. It’s time to heal any mental, emotional, or psychological problems tearing your family apart. In order to help a family work together towards a healthy family life, family therapists aim to aid family members in improving communication, solving family problems, understanding and handling special family situations, and creating a better functioning home environment (Family Therapy, 2017A).
Specialties
Love That Works Workshops
Join us for an engaging presentation that introduces IMAGO Relationship Theory—a transformative approach to creating healthier, more conscious relationships with yourself and others. Whether you're in a relationship or simply seeking to grow personally, this experience will provide valuable insights and tools to: 🌱 Build and sustain loving relationships 🧠 Understand how you may unintentionally sabotage connection 🔄 Transform conflict into opportunities for growth 💬 Develop communication skills that break negative cycles ❤️ Move from uncertainty to intimacy and trust 🤝 Meet others who value conscious connection and emotional growth 🛡️ Establish emotional safety through the IMAGO Dialogue 🌍 Gain tools for sustainable connection—with yourself, others, and the world 🧘 Learn to regulate your emotions and respond more intentionally 💡 Function from your best self instead of reacting in fight, flight, or freeze This is more than a presentation—it's an invitation to change the way you relate, communicate, and grow.
SPECALTIES
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Certified EMDR Therapist and Consultant in Training
Specialist in Sensory Processing/Self-regulation
Houston Eating Disorder Specialist
Certified IMAGO Relationship and Couples Therapy
ICP- IASIS Certified Practitioner
*1525 Lakeville Drive, Suite 114
Kingwood, Texas 77339
Phone: 281-223-3421
Email: kdgray8@gmail.com
www.lovethatwork.net
Cancellation Policy
Appointments missed or cancelled with less than 24 hours notice will be charged at the full scheduled session fee. Please do not rely on email as sufficient notice for cancelling appointments. Be sure to give me a call or text.
I will provide you with a Receipt For Service which you can then file with your insurance company to be directly reimbursed. My services are covered in part by most health insurance plans - I would be an "Out-of-Network Provider" on your plan. My credentials for coverage are Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist.
Sessions are $165.+
Informed Consent and Practice Policies for Office and Online Therapy
LITIGATION POLICY AND FEES FOR COURT-RELATED SERVICES
Emergency Care
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Articles
Eating disorders are pathological conditions characterized by disturbed eating behaviors that affect mental and physical health. Among them, some Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), Pica and Anorexia Nervosa (AN) studies have shown, at least in part, a sensory-related etiology. Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is a neurological condition that exists when the brain has an altered processing of sensory signals, resulting in non-adaptive motor and/or behavioral responses. Some of the SPD phenotypes include hyper or hypo-reactivity to one or more sensory channels, including tactile, olfactory, visual and oral that might have connections with the aforementioned eating disorders, like atypical responses from determined food colors, textures or smells which eventually lead to unhealthy eating behaviors, weight imbalance, malnutrition and psychosocial impairment. We have gathered and discussed some of the most relevant studies about the connection between eating disorders and SPD, proposing a general term called sensory eating disorder to define peculiar SPD cases that might evolve to an established eating disorder. Keywords: Sensory processing disorder; Eating disorders; Sensory eating disorder; Avoidant-restrictive; Food intake disorder; Pica; Anorexia nervosa; Autism Abbreviations : ARFID: Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder; AN: Anorexia Nervosa; SPD: Sensory Processing Disorder
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