Relationships

Relationship challenges can have a negative impact on our well-being. 

Relationship difficulties can be experienced with anyone in our life including partners, family, and friends.

Relationship challenges can leave you feeling stuck, hopeless, empty, uncertain, disconnected, fearful, worried, frustrated, and overwhelmed. 

It can be tough to know how to manage the emotions that build.  Experiencing this can make it difficult to show up in your relationships as your best self when you feel heavily weighed down by feelings of stress. 

Partner Relationships

Do you resonate with any of the following?

  • Challenges with communication and managing conflict

  • Feeling disconnected from your partner and not feeling able to be yourself

  • Emotional wounds from past relationships continuing to affect you

  • In a relationship that is no longer serving you

  • Pattern of being in relationships that are not the right fit

  • Difficulty finding the right partner

  • Working through a relationship ending

  • Feeling frustrated and stressed

Family Relationships

Do you experience any of these challenges?

  • Hard time being an individual within your family

  • Meeting everyone else’s expectations while your needs are neglected

  • Challenges with in-laws

  • Abandoning your values to appease others and do what is expected of you

  • Feeling responsible for others’ feelings

  • Difficulty with boundary setting and setting limits

  • Relationships feel imbalanced

  • Feeling overwhelmed and burnt out

Friendships

Do you experience this in your friendships?

  • Being a people-pleaser

  • Over-apologizing to manage conflict or keep the peace

  • Trying to prove your worth in order to be liked and feel like you belong

  • Nervous about sharing an opinion that differs from others

  • Doing what others want, even if you don’t want to

  • Saying “yes” when you mean “no”

  • Difficulty being yourself

  • Feeling like the friendship is one-sided

  • Feeling lonely, uneasy, and/or unfulfilled

Healthy, satisfying relationships are associated with better health

Professional experience working with those with relationship challenges:

I have 20+ years of experience providing therapy to youth and adults helping them process and sort through their relationship difficulties, learn how to connect with themselves to help them better connect with others, and learn skills to address a variety of relationship issues. 

I have also co-facilitated groups for couples navigating difficulties in their relationship.

Relationship challenges occur in many forms and can have a negative impact on our sense of self, our mental health, and our well-being.