Dr. Teresa M. Walters
Natural Relational Health Institute
Formerly Chrysalis Connections
Restoring God’s Design for Relational Health
Faith-based education and counseling services designed to cultivate healthy relationships with God, Self, and Others.
317-210-1776
Relationship Counseling
Individual, Couple, and Marriage Counseling
Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
Marriage Preparation
Divorce Recovery
Family Estrangement and Familial Cutoff
Education and Training
Under Construction
Articles
Videos
Workshop and Training Modules
Books
Natural Relational Health Institute operates as a DBA of Chrysalis Connections, LLC
Dr. Teresa M. Walters
Ed.D., MAMFT, LMFT, LAC, DTM
Natural Relational Health Practitioner, Family Systems Specialist, Christian Leadership and Spiritual Formation Consultant
Looking for Chrysalis Connections?
You’re in the right place.
Chrysalis Connections has a new home and a new name:
The Natural Relational Health Institute.
All of the relational counseling services you are used to, PLUS the added bonus of expanded educational resources.
Same Services | New Name
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Relationship with God
A healthy relationship with God forms the foundation for all other relationships. When we feel spiritually grounded and aligned with our Creator, we gain a clearer sense of identity, purpose, and stability, which naturally enriches every area of our lives.
Relationship with Self
Relational health also involves developing a healthy relationship with ourselves. This includes emotional maturity, self-awareness, and personal responsibility. ability to live with clarity and inner steadiness. Bathed in the unconditional love of God, our relationship with ourselves becomes a natural and safe experience.
Relationship with Others
A safe, loved, and stable relational base (with God and self) sets the stage for all other relationships. Healthy marriages, families, friendships, and communities are built through love, truth, boundaries, humility, forgiveness, and the ability to remain connected without losing ourselves.
A Three-tier Path to Relational Health
Relational connection is the foundation upon which life is built. As relational beings created by a relational God, our natural birthright is interdependent, safe, stable, and loving connections.
We were created for relational connection.
So, if I was created for relational connection…what happened, and how do I get it back?
That’s where I come in.
Hi, I’m Dr. Walters,
Natural Relational Health Practitioner and Marriage and Family Systems Specialist.
I guide individuals, couples, and families toward relational wholeness through Christ-centered teaching, therapeutic support, spiritual formation, and practical tools that strengthen connection with God, self, and others.
In other words, my job is to help you reclaim your relational birthright and enjoy the rich, abundant, and satisfying life you were meant to live.
Together, we will explore how the relational bonds in your life become disconnected and develop a plan to restore God’s design for relational wholeness.
Looking for therapy options? Now you can schedule your therapy appointments on our safe, user-friendly online platform.
Dr. Teresa M. Walters,
Ed,D, MAMFT, LMFT, LAC, DTM
To Learn More, Call or Text
317-210-1776
How it works
You don’t have to know exactly what you need yet.
Start with the path that feels closest to your situation.
Marriage and Family Therapy
Natural Relational Health Services are designed to strengthen marriages, restore connection, and support family healing.
Choose between couples therapy, Christian counseling, marriage counseling, or individual services.
Sessions provide a steady space to slow down reactivity, understand relational patterns, and rebuild trust at a sustainable pace. The aim is not simply insight, but lived change, which helps relationships become calmer, clearer, and more secure in everyday life.
Ready to get started? Schedule Your Appointment Here.
Spiritual Formation
Christ-centered practices that nurture spiritual maturity, deepen biblical understanding, and align everyday living with God’s design for relational wholeness.
Through intentional spiritual formation, faith becomes less about performance and more about transformation. Which promote a steady heart, a peaceful mind, and relationships governed by grace.
Education and Training
Biblically grounded, systems-informed teaching that helps individuals, couples, and families understand the deeper patterns shaping their relational world.
Educational and training resources are designed to build understanding, not just provide answers. Through courses, workshops, and written materials, students learn the principles that make relationships work – differentiation, maturity, responsibility, and sustainable change. The goal is to equip people to think clearly about relational health and apply it long after the lesson ends.
Relational Health Resources & Tools
Relational health grows through small, repeatable practices. These resources provide simple frameworks, reflection guides, and practical exercises that help translate into everyday living – claiming reactivity, improving communication, and strengthening steady presence in relationships. The focus is not perfection, but practicing healthier patterns over time.
You will find articles, guided reflections, and practical tools that can be revisited whenever life feels unsettled or confusing. Many of these supports are explained more fully in the Natural Relational Health Institute Journal (NRHI), where foundational ideas and real-life observations work together to make relational health understandable and liveable.
Media & Creative Content
Accessible, heart-centered content that brings relational healing principles to anyone seeking hope, direction, and biblical wisdom.
Written and audio reflections that offer a quieter space to absorb meaning. Essays, reading, poetry, and creative pieces give language to lived experience and allow relational healing principles to be considered slowly and thoughtfully.
These materials are meant to be revisited over time, especially during seasons of reflection or uncertainty. By engaging imagination as well as understanding, they help readers process emotions, notice growth, and remain grounded in hope while real change unfolds.
YouTube
Conversational video teaching that explores relational health, faith, and everyday life in an approachable and personal way. These YouTube videos translate complex ideas into clear understanding and allow viewers to think through their own experiences while feeling accompanied rather than instructed.
Rather than polished presentations, the goal is steady conversation – reflecting on real questions, cultural influences, and lived situations with honesty and care. Over time, the videos help viewers recognize patterns, gain perspective, and move toward calmer, wiser responses in their relationships.
About Us
The Natural Relational Health Institute is an educational and therapeutic institute dedicated to restoring God’s design for relational wholeness. Built on the belief that healthy families begin with spiritually grounded, emotionally mature, and well-connected individuals, the Institute offers a comprehensive, three-tier framework for relational growth: relationship with God, relationship with self, and relationship with others. These tiers form the foundation of all teaching, training, and therapeutic support.
Drawing from biblical wisdom and family systems principles, the Institute provides a blend of education, spiritual formation, and relational health services. Through workshops, courses, counseling, resources, and creative media content, the Institute equips individuals, couples, and families to understand the deeper patterns shaping their lives and to practice healing in practical, sustainable ways.
The Institute serves as both a learning environment and a restorative space, designed to nurture clarity, character, and connections. Whether someone is seeking personal maturity, renewing a marriage, strengthening a family, or developing the capacity to speak truth in love, The Natural Relational Health Institute offers a clear path toward lasting relational transformation.
Dr. Teresa M. Walters
Ed.D., MAMFT, LMFT, LAC, DTM
Natural Relational Health Practitioner
Marriage and Family Systems Specialist
Christian Leadership and Ministry Support
With more than six decades of lived experience and learning behind me, I guide individuals, couples, and families with a blend of lived wisdom, professional training, and a deep commitment to God’s design for relational health. My work is shaped by real-life challenges, years of clinical practice, and a solid academic foundation, providing clients with a solid foundation for building the relational security they always thought possible.
The Natural Relational Health Institute expands the counseling work originally developed through Chrysalis Connections, LLC.
Experience You Can Trust
Lived Experience
I bring a lifetime of real-world insight shaped by marriage, parenting, grandparenting, ministry support, trauma recovery, and decades of walking the long road of personal and spiritual growth. My story helps me understand and come alongside the stories of others.
Clinical Experience
Over the past fourteen years, I have provided clinical care in a private-practice setting, helping individuals, couples, and families navigate complex emotional and relational challenges. My work has included supervising resident-level therapists pursuing licensure, serving on several mental-health–related boards of directors, and offering professional presentations on topics such as disordered eating, suicidality, self-harm, addiction, and relational health. These experiences have strengthened my ability to guide clients with clarity, compassion, and seasoned clinical judgment.
Education and Credentials
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy (MAMFT), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC), Domestic Mediation Certification, Parenting Coordinator Certification, Pastoral Ministry Support Certification, Distinquished Toastmaster (DTM), and founder of Chrysalis Connections, LLC and The Natural Relational Health Institute.
“Do not merely desire peaceful relationships with God, with your fellowman, and with yourself, but pursue,
Go After Them!”
1 Peter 3:11 (Amp.)
Relational Connection is your God intended Birthright.
As God’s most beloved creation, we were created to live in relational harmony. Separation from God was never the intended plan. When we are reconciled to God, our birthright is restored, and we enjoy all of the benefits of relational connection He intended.