About Me
Tricia Foster MS LMFT NCC
Licenced Marriage and Family Therapist
National Certified Counselor
I am confident and caring, with the skills to lovingly teach you. I have been through my own journey of growth in which I sought out counseling to challenge my perspectives, confront myself, and learn skills that were not modeled for me growing up. I appreciate the struggle and learned so much about life, love, and the human condition throughout my life experiences and formal education and training. I love this work and am passionate about helping others on their own path of struggle, discovery, and transformation. At 38 years old, I am so grateful for the years of painful growth and learning that have equipped me to be an effective therapist.
I earned my Master of Science degree in Counseling from Southern Methodist University, with additional coursework and clinical training specific to Marriage and Family Therapy. I developed my clinical skills through work with family and child development, parental counseling, play therapy, couples counseling, and more. I have been trained in Parent Behavior Management and studied many parent training programs to aid in guiding parents through at home skills through Parent Training. I am trained in the NeuroEmotional Technique and use it along with trauma informed psychotherapy. I opened up my own private practice in 2021 in the Frisco/Little Elm area near Prosper and also work with many individuals, parents, and families online throughout the state of Texas. I was voted in as the 2026 President-Elect for the Texas Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, a division of the Texas Counseling Association. In addition to my work, I enjoy spending time with my family, friends, animals, church, music, events, and hobbies such as reading, writing, singing, painting, and attempting to keep plants alive!
My Approach
I approach therapy from a developmental, behavioral, and relational perspective. Our emotions usually make sense within the context of adapting to our experiences and relationships. But maladaptations lead to dysfunctions in life and love. My aim is to help everyone understand their reactions, challenge unhelpful habits, and then practice more functional responses to distress.
I utilize governing theories such as Object Relations and Attachment Theory, Behavioral Parent Training (BPT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family Systems Therapy, Relational Life Therapy, Trauma Informed Counseling, and skills from Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT). I believe our self-protective reactions are a result of our internalized responses to life experiences, and we can rewire those through intentional exposure, new experiences, and repeated practice with more functional responses. I see therapy as a space of learning, preparation, and practice to understand and accept distress and anxiety and to challenge how you function anxiously around others in relationships through patterns like avoidance or control. I utilize therapy to practice shifting relational and internal patterns of thought and behavior which affect our natural emotional responses. I offer family therapy, parent training, couples counseling, play therapy, child counseling, adolescent teen therapy, and individual psychotherapy for adults with family wounds, past truama, depression, anxiety, bipolar, life changes, and more.
In addition to being formally trained in Family Therapies and Behavioral Parent Training, I am also a trained Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET) practitioner. NET is a mind-body technique that uses a methodology of finding and removing neurological imbalances related to unresolved stress patterns. I utilize this technique often when working with anxiety and trauma in individual sessions.
While I work with many individuals to process individual issues, I aim to engage everyone in relational sessions as well, to actively address the interactional and self-protective dynamics that arise when interacting with the people in your life. I work with many relationship dynamics such as marriage, parent-child, siblings, friends, and more to improve the functional and relational skills of individuals and units.