Interpersonal Relationships
From family, to friends, to partners and communities, the quality and satisfaction of these relationships matter to your mental health.
Have the healthy connections you want to have.
Creating Healthy Connections
Relationship difficulties are one of the most common issues that clients present with in accessing psychological services. Whether you are having difficulties with your parents, children, friends, spouse, colleagues, or others - therapy can help to identify patterns and improve your relationship skills.
If you are having difficulties with your partner, it is often advisable to consider couples therapy. At times, individual therapy for an existing partnership can create instability and cause further conflict in the relationship. If you are unsure how to proceed, please contact me and I can help you discern what might be most beneficial.
Common issues I work with include; assertiveness skills, developing healthy conflict skills, emotional awareness & regulation, communication skills, attachment patterns, resolving past issues that contribute to present relational patterns, and social anxiety.
Moving Beyond Past Relationships
Relationships, when they end, can be devastating to experience. For some, it can result in old attachment wounds reactivating, for others the magnitude of the grief and loss can be overwhelming. Sometimes we can become stuck in the process of moving on, we ruminate endlessly about the relationship, why it ended, how it could have ended, what we might have done wrong or how we will ever move forward and form new connections. I help people move through these experiences and help them determine their desired paths forward.
I have a strong interest in working with people who are recovering from particularly difficult or traumatic break-ups or divorces wherein there has been abuse, betrayal or other factors that have created difficult circumstances for you to recover and move forward in your life.
Common issues I work with include; break-ups, separation, divorce, betrayal trauma, historical relationship abuse, problematic relational dynamics/patterns.
