The therapies and clinical approaches our teams draw on, including the relationship-focused work Tad practices.
LCSW
Tad Bodeman
Senior Clinician. Tad focuses his practice on healing relationships and trauma, helping couples and individuals rebuild trust and deepen intimacy.
About
Healing relationships,
rebuilding trust.
Tad Bodeman is a Senior Clinician at The Lovett Center whose practice centers on healing relationships, easing sadness, and fostering joy, peace, and deepening intimacy. He helps couples and individuals heal previous wounds and rebuild trust while building a deepening friendship and emotionally intimate, joy-filled marriages and relationships. Even when partners feel hurt, angry, or hopeless, his work holds to the belief that real hope remains.
Tad stays focused on each client’s goals and on the root of their relational struggles, working toward lasting results with a comforting style drawn from more than 39 years of clinical and executive-level business experience. His clinical training includes Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, the Gottman Method, a two-year postgraduate psychodynamic psychotherapy program, and Clinical Social Work. He earned his Master’s in Social Work from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.
Outside Lovett, Tad helped found A Future and a Hope Ministries, a non-profit providing affordable, faith-based mental health services. He and his wife have been married for more than 38 years and are parents to an adult daughter and son.
Areas of focus
Where Tad's work
centers.
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Couples and relationship work
Tad helps couples and individuals heal previous wounds and rebuild trust, working toward a deepening friendship and emotionally intimate, joy-filled relationships.
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
His clinical training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy shapes how he helps partners reconnect when they feel unheard, hurt, or stuck in the same conflicts.
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The Gottman Method
Trained in the Gottman Method, Tad draws on its research-based approach to help couples strengthen friendship and move past recurring patterns.
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Trauma and trust repair
He stays focused on the root of relational struggles, addressing old wounds and trauma that threaten relationships so couples can develop lasting results.
Where Tad works
Care connected across
Lovett.
The mental health and substance use conditions Lovett treats, often at the same time.
How to begin care at Lovett and find the right clinician for you or your relationship.
Background
Education and credentials
Credentials
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Education
- Master's in Social Work, University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
Training
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
- The Gottman Method
- Two-year postgraduate psychodynamic psychotherapy program
Start the conversation
Find the right
clinician for you.
Whether you are hoping to work with Tad or simply not sure where to begin, our Houston-based admissions team will help you find the right clinician and the right level of care.
- Confidential from the first call
- In network with major insurance plans, plus self-pay
- Houston-based admissions team
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