Therapy for Relationships
If you’re either struggling in a relationship or struggling to find a healthy relationship, you’re not alone.
So many people come to therapy because this is a big part of their life where they feel stuck and frustrated.
How Therapy Can Help Your Relationship
It’s not that there’s something wrong with you, it’s about what has happened to you. Often what gets in the way of authentic connection are old ways of coping we learned to deal with an overwhelming time in our lives. Even though our circumstances change, sometimes we still bring with us those old ways with us even though they longer fit. Another block can be the unhealthy implicit and explicit messages we’ve received about ourselves that we have internalized as true. These negative core beliefs about ourselves can hold us back from feeling like we deserve healthy, reciprocal relationships; they can tell us it’s not safe to want a relationship; they can even tell us we don’t matter and are unwanted. When we feel this way about ourselves, those dynamics often play out in our relationships.
How EMDR Could Help
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) can help by challenging these negative core beliefs and helping your mind find alternative, healthy, balanced beliefs that reconnect you with your ability to feel deserving of love, safety, and healthy relationships. It can also help you leave behind old thoughts and patterns that may be negatively impacting your current relationship. It can help deepen your sense of trust and security, both in yourself and your partner, by healing old wounds from the past that still may be present.
Who may benefit from therapy for relationships?
You may benefit from therapy if you:
Have been struggling to feel secure in your current relationship.
Have been feeling “stuck” or “frozen” about trying to date or begin a relationship.
You feel like wounds from past relationships are still showing up in your current relationship.
You struggle to feel like your authentic self while dating.
You feel as though you always try to change yourself to be “perfect” for the person you are dating.
You feel as though you’re “too much” or “never enough” for others.
You see a pattern of dating people who end up not being healthy for you.
You believe deep down that you don’t matter.
.Anxiety is keeping you from dating.
You struggle with big emotions when you and your partner have minor disagreements.
If any of this resonates with you, we would love to connect and explore if we would be a good fit for you.