The Montfort Group

The Montfort Group Counseling services provided in West Plano. Individual, couples, and family therapy offered. We see strength in scars.

Kintsugi refers to the ancient Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery with gold. Rather than hiding broken lines and flawed edges, a gold lacquer vividly joins the pieces together. This method highlights the marks to create a repaired piece even stronger and more beautiful than the original. Our group was born out of a need for a fresh, refined approach to therapy. Your story is complex and

winding, and your path to improved mental health should be as unique as you are. The Montfort Group aims to provide a serene, calming setting where you can feel challenged, supported, and motivated. Our four skilled therapists bridge specialized backgrounds and varied philosophies together to create one unified strategy. Rather than steer you away from your own natural abilities, we help you maximize your unique strengths to uncover the boldest version of yourself. We do not view a broken history as the end of a story. We see it is an opportunity for a new beginning.

04/24/2026

One of the biggest sources of disconnection during IVF is assuming both partners should be coping the same way.⁠
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But they’re often not.⁠
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And that doesn’t mean anything is wrong.⁠
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Therapy helps couples move from defensiveness into curiosity, which is often where reconnection begins.⁠
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IVF does not just test your patience. It tests your connection.⁠⁠Couples often feel like they are drifting, not because ...
04/23/2026

IVF does not just test your patience. It tests your connection.⁠
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Couples often feel like they are drifting, not because something is broken, but because the process quietly takes over their emotional and relational space. Conversations shift. Roles shift. And without intention, connection becomes harder to access.⁠
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Staying connected during IVF is not about doing it perfectly. It is about creating space for the relationship alongside the process, allowing different emotional experiences, and staying engaged even when it feels easier to withdraw.⁠
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We break this down more fully in our latest blog and share what actually helps couples move through IVF without losing each other. Read the full piece in bio.⁠
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04/22/2026

A lot of couples don’t seek support during IVF because they assume therapy is only for “serious relationship problems.”⁠
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But most of the time, the relationship isn’t broken.⁠
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It’s under sustained emotional, physical, and logistical pressure.⁠
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Therapy can help couples stay connected while navigating one of the most demanding seasons a relationship can face.⁠
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It’s easy for IVF to become the center of everything.⁠⁠But the relationship still needs tending, even in the middle of a...
04/20/2026

It’s easy for IVF to become the center of everything.⁠
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But the relationship still needs tending, even in the middle of appointments, uncertainty, grief, and hope.⁠
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Angela’s latest piece offers language for protecting connection while navigating the process.⁠
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Read it through the link in bio.⁠
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04/19/2026

A lot of high achievers assume that if they feel flat, they just need a bigger goal.⁠
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But sometimes the issue isn’t motivation. It’s misalignment.⁠
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There comes a point when external success stops answering the internal questions you’ve started asking.⁠
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And if you don’t make space for that, you end up staying productive while quietly losing direction.⁠
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There are seasons where success still looks right from the outside, but no longer feels meaningful on the inside.⁠⁠That ...
04/18/2026

There are seasons where success still looks right from the outside, but no longer feels meaningful on the inside.⁠
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That moment is easy to misread, especially for high-functioning adults who are used to solving discomfort by pushing harder.⁠
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This week’s featured blog by Cory Montfort explores what it can mean when achievement stops feeling satisfying.⁠
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Read the full piece through the link in bio.⁠
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04/15/2026

It is rarely just two people in a relationship.⁠
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Most couples walk in thinking the work is about communication between “you” and “me.” But the truth is, there are often more voices in the room than anyone names out loud.⁠
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Sometimes it is a whole system trying to be heard through the same argument.⁠
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This is the part couples don’t always see at first.⁠
Not because they are unaware, but because they are inside it.⁠
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And once you can see the full room, the work changes.⁠
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🔗 Listen to Laurie and Julia discuss inner child work for relationships through the link in our bio.⁠
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04/12/2026

Some of the patterns people judge most harshly in themselves make more sense when you understand what they were originally protecting.⁠
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People-pleasing. ⁠
Perfectionism. ⁠
Emotional shutdown. ⁠
Hyper-independence. ⁠
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These aren’t random flaws. They often began as ways to survive what younger versions of us didn’t know how to name.⁠
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Inner child work in therapy helps connect the present back to the place where the pattern first formed, so healing becomes less about “fixing yourself” and more about finally understanding yourself.⁠
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Inner child work is not about staying stuck in the past. It is about understanding how early experiences continue to sha...
04/11/2026

Inner child work is not about staying stuck in the past. It is about understanding how early experiences continue to shape how you feel, respond, and relate today.⁠
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Many of the patterns people struggle with are not random. They were once adaptive responses to environments where something was missing, inconsistent, or overwhelming. What helped you cope then may now be limiting how you experience connection and yourself.⁠
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In therapy, inner child work helps you recognize these patterns, make sense of them, and begin offering a different kind of response. One that is more steady, protective, and compassionate.⁠
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Read more on how this process works and why it is so effective in our blog. Link in bio!⁠
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04/10/2026

A lot of people hear “inner child work” and assume it means staying stuck in the past.⁠
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It doesn’t.⁠
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It means understanding how earlier emotional experiences shaped the way⁠
you relate to yourself, other people, and safety now.⁠
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Real healing doesn’t happen by minimizing what hurt you. It happens by becoming the kind of steady, compassionate adult your younger self needed but didn’t always have.⁠
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So much of what gets labeled as “too much” is often something much older asking to be understood.⁠⁠The younger parts of ...
04/08/2026

So much of what gets labeled as “too much” is often something much older asking to be understood.⁠
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The younger parts of us don’t disappear just because we become adults.⁠
They show up in the places we still feel small, unseen, or unsafe.⁠
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Healing doesn’t begin with judgment.⁠
It begins with recognition.⁠
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Read more about inner child work through the link in our bio.⁠
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Many of us learned early on to look outside ourselves for reassurance, for validation, for some kind of confirmation tha...
04/06/2026

Many of us learned early on to look outside ourselves for reassurance, for validation, for some kind of confirmation that we were okay.⁠
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At the time, that made sense. It was how we adapted. It was how we stayed connected.⁠
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But over time, that pattern can start to show up in ways that feel harder to name. We second-guess ourselves. We wait to be chosen. We look to other people to tell us who we are.⁠
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In this conversation, Julia Satterlee speaks to something that shifts that pattern at its root. When you learn how to meet your own needs, you are no longer dependent on someone else to define your worth.⁠
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That does not mean you stop wanting connection. It means you relate to it differently. There is more steadiness, more clarity, and less urgency underneath it.⁠
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This episode is a deeper look at what that kind of self-trust actually requires, and why it changes the way you show up in every relationship.⁠
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🔗 Listen to the full episode through the link in our bio⁠
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We see strength in scars.

Kintsugi refers to the ancient Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery with gold. Rather than hiding broken lines and flawed edges, a gold lacquer vividly joins the pieces together. This method highlights the marks to create a repaired piece even stronger and more beautiful than the original.

Our group was born out of a need for a fresh, refined approach to therapy. Your story is complex and winding, and your path to improved mental health should be as unique as you are.

The Montfort Group aims to provide a serene, calming setting where you can feel challenged, supported, and motivated. Our four skilled therapists bridge specialized backgrounds and varied philosophies together to create one unified strategy.

Rather than steer you away from your own natural abilities, we help you maximize your unique strengths to uncover the boldest version of yourself. We do not view a broken history as the end of a story. We see it is an opportunity for a new beginning.