Relationships

Each individual has their own unique goals and experiences when it comes to therapy, but some of the work may entail processing and exploring:

Early childhood attachment

Therapy can be a wonderful space to explore and process early childhood attachment to caregivers. Early attachment informs how you view relationships as you continue through life and can be a core part of how you view yourself in relation to others.

Past relationships

Whether you want to process past friendships or romantic relationships, therapy can be helpful in exploring relationship patterns that are inhibiting you from forming meaningful and safe relationships.

Communication & Boundaries

Boundaries and communication are vital to forming and maintaining healthy relationships across your lifespan. For many individuals, setting boundaries can feel uncomfortable and may feel unfamiliar. Therapy can be a space where we explore what your values are and what boundaries feel authentic to you. Communication is crucial when setting and maintaining boundaries along with stating your needs within relationships. We can explore the ways in which you communicate and if there may be more effective ways to assert your needs.

Your relationship with yourself

We often forget that the relationship we have with ourself is the most important. The ways in which we communicate and set boundaries with ourselves influence not only our core beliefs but the relationships we choose for ourselves. The relationship we have with ourself changes over time and can be impacted by how we are treated by others. This is our most important relationship but can also be the most confusing for us. Therapy is a space where you can unpack the messages you tell yourself and get to the core of who you are and who you want to be.

Grief

Whether you are grieving the end of a relationship with a partner, friend, or family member, grief can be confusing and often times debilitating. Our work together will focus on processing the different stages of grief and allowing yourself to feel every emotion. Therapy provides a safe space where you can show up as yourself.

attachment wounds & trauma

When we are in relationships with others, we can experience hurt, betrayal, and abandonment. This can look different depending on the relationship, whether this wound happened to you as a child with a parent or as an adult within a romantic partnership. These relationship injuries cause trauma that has lasting impacts throughout our lives and relationships. Our work together can look like processing this trauma using an evidence-based practice called Lifespan Integration (LI).