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Therapy for Relationship Challenges
Relationships can bring out some of our strongest emotions. You may find yourself overthinking a partner’s tone, pulling away when things feel too close, struggling to ask for what you need, or repeating patterns you understand but cannot seem to change. Individual therapy can help you understand what is happening and respond with more clarity, security, and choice.
Individual therapy for adults and teens ages 13+ • English and Spanish • Aetna, Florida Blue, Cigna, Providence Health Plan, and self-pay
Does Any of This Feel Familiar?
Relationship difficulties are not always about one dramatic conflict. Sometimes the harder part is noticing the same emotional cycle keep returning, even when you genuinely want things to be different.
Overthinking and Reassurance-Seeking
Reading into texts, tone, response times, or small changes in closeness and needing repeated reassurance that the relationship is okay.
Pursuing and Pulling Away
One person reaches for more closeness while the other withdraws, which can leave both people feeling misunderstood, pressured, or alone.
Difficulty Trusting
Wanting closeness while also feeling guarded, suspicious, or braced for rejection, betrayal, abandonment, or disappointment.
People-Pleasing and Boundaries
Saying yes when you mean no, avoiding difficult conversations, or taking responsibility for another person’s emotions at the expense of your own needs.
Conflict That Keeps Repeating
The topic changes, but the argument feels familiar. You may get defensive, shut down, become more intense, or leave the conversation feeling unheard.
Feeling Lost in the Relationship
Wondering what you actually want, whether the relationship is right for you, or why it feels so difficult to make a decision and trust yourself.
The Pattern Usually Makes Sense Before It Becomes a Problem
The ways we protect ourselves in relationships often developed for a reason. Reaching for reassurance can be an attempt to feel safe. Pulling away can be a way to lower emotional intensity. Avoiding conflict may have helped you keep the peace. The problem is that strategies that once protected you can eventually create the exact disconnection you are trying to avoid.
Notice the Trigger
We slow down the moments that activate you and look at what you are noticing, fearing, assuming, or needing in that moment.
Understand Your Response
We examine what you tend to do next: pursue, withdraw, appease, criticize, shut down, overexplain, check, or seek reassurance.
Create More Choice
The goal is not to never feel triggered. It is to have more options for what you do when the old pattern starts to take over.
How I Work With Relationship Patterns
My approach is collaborative and practical. We can look closely at the situations that activate you, the meaning you make of them, and the strategies you use to protect yourself. That may include anxiety, avoidance, self-criticism, difficulty tolerating uncertainty, or patterns learned in earlier relationships.
I draw primarily from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), while also paying attention to attachment patterns, past experiences, emotional responses, and the dynamics happening in your current relationships. Some sessions focus on understanding. Others focus on boundaries, communication, tolerating difficult emotions, or practicing a different response.
The Goal
The goal is not to control another person or guarantee that a relationship works out. It is to help you understand yourself more clearly, communicate more directly, make decisions with less fear, and respond in ways that better reflect the kind of relationship you want to build.
This Is Individual Therapy, Not Couples Therapy
You do not need your partner, parent, friend, or family member to attend for us to work on the relationship. We focus on your experience, your patterns, your choices, and what is within your control. I am not currently offering couples therapy, so if you are looking for treatment where both partners attend together, I may not be the right fit for that particular service.
Relationship Therapy for Adults and Teens
For Adults
Relationship stress may involve dating, marriage, separation, family relationships, friendships, or recurring patterns across several relationships. Therapy gives you a place to slow the situation down and decide how you want to respond.
For Teens Ages 13+
For teens, relationship stress may involve friendships, dating, family conflict, rejection, belonging, boundaries, or difficulty expressing needs. Parent or guardian involvement is discussed based on age, needs, and privacy requirements.
What Getting Started Looks Like
1
Choose Your Starting Point
Schedule a first session directly through Headway, or request a free 15-minute consultation if you would like to talk briefly before deciding.
2
Map the Pattern
Your first sessions give us time to understand the relationship, what tends to trigger you, how you respond, and what you hope can change.
3
Practice Something Different
We build on that understanding with practical changes in how you communicate, set boundaries, handle uncertainty, and respond when emotions run high.
Common Questions About Therapy for Relationship Challenges
Do you provide couples therapy?
No. This page describes individual therapy focused on relationship challenges. We work on your emotions, patterns, boundaries, decisions, and responses. If you are looking for sessions where both partners attend together, I do not currently offer that service.
Can I work on a relationship if the other person will not come to therapy?
Yes. Individual therapy can still be useful because we can focus on what you notice, how you respond, the boundaries you set, the meaning you make of the other person’s behavior, and the decisions that are within your control.
Do you work with attachment issues?
Attachment patterns can be a useful way to understand closeness, distance, reassurance, trust, and fear of rejection. I may use attachment concepts when they fit your experience, without reducing you or another person to a label.
Can therapy help me decide whether to stay in or leave a relationship?
Therapy can give you a place to slow the decision down, understand what is influencing you, identify your values and limits, and consider the options more clearly. I will not make the decision for you.
Do you accept insurance?
I currently accept Aetna, Florida Blue, Cigna, and Providence Health Plan. Coverage varies by plan. Headway verifies your benefits and provides a cost estimate before your first session. Self-pay is also available.
Are sessions available in Spanish?
Yes. Sessions are available in English or Spanish for clients who are physically located in Florida during the session.
Ready to Talk About What Keeps Repeating?
You can schedule a first session directly, or request a free 15-minute consultation if you would prefer to speak briefly before deciding.