Relationship Counseling
Are You Looking For Support As You Navigate Relationship Challenges?
Do you often experience the same challenges, problems, or unhealthy patterns within your relationships?
Is there a relationship in your life that’s causing you anxiety and distress?
Are you looking for clarity about how to attract the kind of connections you want?
Maybe you’re having trouble finding a long-term partner. Whether you’ve been through a series of unsuccessful relationships or the partnership you currently have is unsatisfying, you may be wondering what you need to do to maintain a sustainable and fulfilling connection.
You may be aware of counterproductive relationship patterns and behaviors from your past. Perhaps you experience trust issues, codependency, or a fear of commitment. Or maybe an incident or negative influence from your past has affected how you view relationships in general. If you’ve recently gone through a breakup or divorce, you might be trying to figure out how to put yourself out there to attract the healthy, desirable relationship that you want. And though you feel ready for lasting love, you may be concerned that you are somehow damaged, never destined to have the partnership, family, or life you’ve always imagined for yourself.
On the other hand, it might not be your romantic relationship that’s causing you stress. Perhaps you’re struggling with a friendship or someone in your family. The parent-child bond—especially between mothers and daughters—can be difficult to navigate, particularly as you chart your own path as an adult. As we grow, it can be difficult for us as children to determine how to interact with our aging parents in a healthy, mutually respectful way.
It's also possible that a professional relationship in your life—including that with a coworker, boss, or employee—is making you feel frustrated and unfulfilled. Even though many people assume that relationship counseling is limited to couples issues, the truth is that therapy can improve all kinds of relationships.
Setbacks In Our Relationships Often Lead To Mental Health Challenges
When there is a relationship in your life that’s not working, it can present obstacles to your mental health. You’re probably feeling overburdened by relationship stress or struggling with symptoms of anxiety and depression. And it’s easy to become discouraged that there aren’t any solutions or to assume that the other person is the problem.
At times like this, it’s important to remember that you have the power to change the relationship dynamics that aren’t working for you. Whether you’re experiencing challenges in communication, intimacy, or finding the relationship you want, individual counseling can unlock the potential of healthy, fulfilling connections in your life.
Healthy Relationships Take Hard Work And Commitment
Relationships are a key component of our growth and happiness as individuals. But maintaining healthy connections takes work and commitment from all parties. This is true of all relationships, but romantic partnerships are often where our individual challenges with intimacy and communication are most evident.
Those of us seeking long-term romance are likely to find the dating process overwhelming, especially as the availability of online apps further complicates the already daunting prospect of finding a sustainable partnership.
It’s hard to achieve a compatible relationship to begin with—let alone keep that relationship strong and healthy into the future. Not to mention, we’ve all heard the statistic that half of marriages end in divorce in this country. Though that number is decreasing, breakups and divorces are still incredibly common.
Fortunately, we know from research what the most typical challenges to successful marriages are: conflict, ineffective communication, infidelity, a lack of commitment, and a lack of physical intimacy. And we also know that counseling can effectively target a variety of common issues affecting couples.
There are times when we all struggle to communicate effectively, and none of us were born into perfect relationship models and dynamics. But we can learn and practice skills for healthy relationships.
In relationship counseling, you can enhance the partnerships, friendships, and familial connections that matter most to you.
Counseling Can Improve The Health Of All Of Your Relationships
My philosophy as a therapist is that everything exists in a relationship—and I don’t just mean the connections we have with other people in our lives. We have relationships with our work, our environments, and ourselves that shape the way we view the world around us. Therapy for relationships is an opportunity to understand the patterns at play in every aspect of our lives.
The Therapeutic Process
Counseling begins with a basic intake session that will help me understand which relationships affect your mental health, what you are hoping to get out of therapy, and why now. Once we address some of these surface-level issues during early sessions, we will work together to trace your relationship challenges back to the core of the problem. Doing this will help you manage daily symptoms, as well as identify triggers and warning signs before they create setbacks.
Using a multigenerational systems approach, I will help you see how your current distress is related to deeply entrenched familial patterns. This is not to say that relationship counseling is used to blame everything on your parents but rather to explore the communication models, early experiences, and intergenerational patterns that shaped you. While this is true for all clients—especially those from historically marginalized or oppressed communities—this work is particularly significant for understanding and gaining a deeper understanding of your emotions.
I will also guide you in developing practical, actionable interventions that will improve your communication and reduce the overall distress you experience. If you’re single, this work will allow you to better vet potential partners. And if you’re in a couple, our work in individual counseling can help you strengthen your current relationship, enhance intimacy, and target specific issues in your partnership. But as mentioned, therapy is not only beneficial for increasing romance in your life—counseling can also bolster your friendships, as well as your professional and familial relationships.
You are not alone in your struggles, and it’s important to remember that there are solutions to the challenges in your relationships. With the support you receive in therapy, you can develop and practice a new norm so that you can achieve the relationships you want.
Perhaps You’re Still Not Sure About Therapy…
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As a therapist, I operate from the perspective that healthy relationships start with healthy individuals. This does not mean you have to be perfect—none of us are! However, it does mean you have to be confident and secure in who you are, what you value, and what kinds of relationships you want to have.
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Mental healthcare is healthcare. As such, therapy is an investment in your physical, emotional, and mental health, offering lifelong skills to seek and maintain thriving relationships and overall improved health.
Though insurance can offset the cost of therapy, insurance typically requires a diagnosis, which can set the stage for pre-existing conditions and confidentiality issues. On the other hand, as a private-pay client, the therapeutic process is tailored entirely to meet your needs.
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Because I conduct counseling sessions online, you can schedule appointments in a way that works with your needs. Online therapy removes the hassle of a commute while allowing you to access mental health support during times that might not otherwise work for appointments (including lunch breaks). With this flexibility, you can access meaningful, effective help on a timetable that works for you.
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Achieving healthy relationships can be hard work, but think of all of the other things you’ve accomplished that were hard. There are a variety of critical skills that you can learn in therapy that will improve all of your relationships. And together, we will navigate the challenges you’ve been having so that you can find clarity and solutions.
Find And Maintain Healthy Connections
If you have encountered setbacks in your partnership, friendships, or professional relationships, or if you’re single and looking to cultivate a healthy romance, relationship counseling can help.
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