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Therapy for Relationship Issues
Your relationships don’t have to hurt to be real.
You want connection—but it always feels just out of reach.
You keep finding yourself in the same kind of relationships—ones where you feel unseen, misunderstood, or like you’re doing all the emotional labor.
You try to set boundaries, but end up over-explaining or backing down.
You long for emotional closeness, but worry you’ll come off as “too much.”
Or maybe, deep down, you fear you’ll never find (or keep) the kind of love that feels safe and mutual.
When things feel off in your relationships, you spiral.
You replay conversations in your head. You question your instincts.
You toggle between trying harder and pulling away completely.
And you carry guilt—for wanting more, needing more, or not being “easier to love.”
Unhealthy relationship dynamics don’t just stay in the relationship—they follow you everywhere.
They cloud your ability to trust yourself at work, show up authentically with friends, or rest when you’re alone.
They fuel anxiety, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and people-pleasing.
They make you question whether something’s wrong with you… when really, you’re just stuck in a cycle you never chose.
Therapy can help you see that you’re not “too much.”
You’re just finally asking for enough.
You get to feel secure, chosen, and understood—in love and in life.
Imagine relationships where you don’t have to over-explain your needs or hide your feelings to keep someone close.
Where you can speak up without spiraling.
Where your boundaries are respected.
Where you feel chosen, not just convenient.
Where connection feels mutual, not like something you have to earn.
Imagine trusting your instincts again—no more overthinking every text, every tone, every silence.
Imagine loving someone else without abandoning yourself.
That’s the kind of transformation therapy makes possible.
We’ll start by mapping the patterns—your attachment style, the cycles you keep getting stuck in, and the deeper wounds they’re tied to.
We’ll explore where people-pleasing, emotional reactivity, or avoidant tendencies are showing up—and why.
Using Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), we’ll work with your attachment system to help you build emotional safety, both with yourself and in your relationships. You’ll learn to stay connected without self-sacrificing.
Through Somatic Attachment Work, we’ll tune into your body’s cues and help you build the internal safety that anxious attachment often disrupts. You’ll learn how to recognize and respond to your own needs—without disconnecting, fawning, or spiraling.
And with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), we’ll gently release the nervous system activation tied to past rejection, abandonment, or betrayal—so you can respond to present-day connection with clarity, not survival-mode panic.
Together, we’ll build the foundation for the kind of relationships you’ve always wanted—starting with the one you have with yourself.
Therapy for relationship issues can help you…
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- Identify and shift toxic relationship patterns that keep repeating
- Learn to express your needs without guilt, fear, or shame
- Create emotional boundaries without shutting down or self-abandoning
- Rebuild trust in yourself and others after relational hurt
- Heal attachment wounds so you can give and receive love with confidence
- Stop overfunctioning and people-pleasing just to be chosen
- Develop secure relationship habits rooted in mutual respect, not performance
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You’re relationships shouldn’t feel like a test you keep failing.
FAQ's
Q: What if I’m the problem in all my relationships?
A: You’re not broken—you’re patterned. Relationship struggles often come from deep emotional templates we developed long before adulthood. Therapy helps you untangle those patterns with compassion, not shame—so you can create new ways of relating rooted in security, not survival.
Q: Do I need to be in a relationship to benefit from this?
A: Nope. Many of my clients come in single, dating, or healing from past partnerships. This work is about your relational health, not your relationship status. It’s just as powerful for healing attachment wounds, building trust in yourself, and preparing for future love.
Q: What if I’ve already done therapy and I’m still stuck?
A: That’s more common than you think. You may have gained insight, but insight alone doesn’t always change the nervous system. That’s why I incorporate Emotionally Focused Therapy and EFT—approaches that go deeper than talk alone to help you feel different, not just think differently.
Q: Will I have to confront everyone who’s hurt me?
A: Not unless it’s part of your healing. This space is for you. Sometimes healing means direct conversations; sometimes it means boundaries, grief, or forgiveness work within yourself. You get to choose the pace and direction—we walk it together.
Methods
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
As a therapist trained in the clinical application of EFT, I integrate this body-based technique to release emotional and energetic blocks. It’s especially powerful for healing around rejection, abandonment, and money shame—helping you regulate your nervous system and calm the internal alarms that were wired for survival, not intimacy.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
EFIT helps us get underneath the surface behaviors and into the deeper emotional cycles that keep you stuck. Through this work, we address the root of relational anxiety, emotional disconnection, and self-abandonment by creating new experiences of emotional safety. You’ll build a secure relationship with yourself first—so you can engage with others from a place of worth, not fear.
Somatic Attachment
For many high-functioning clients, the body is the last place they check in—and the first place where trauma lives. Somatic Attachment approaches help us slow down and notice what’s happening in your body when connection feels threatening. We use tools like breathwork, body-based tracking, and gentle nervous system interventions to help you feel safe, grounded, and in control in the present.
You’re not “too much.” You’ve just never felt safe enough to be all of you.
If you’re tired of walking on eggshells, overgiving to stay connected, or chasing validation that never sticks—let’s talk.
There’s nothing wrong with you.
There’s just a deeper story your relationships haven’t made space for. And together, we’ll rewrite it.