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Relationships
Relationships can be joyful and rewarding, and they can also bring pain or feel strained during certain seasons of life. Therapy can support improvement in many types of relationships including with friends, family, work colleagues, self, and romantic partners.
Relationships Issues Can Include:
Anxiety
Enduring challenging times together
Communication & boundaries
Isolation & limited support
Low confidence
Fear of conflict & ‘people pleasing’
Self-criticism & judgement
Therapy for relationship issues can help you work toward greater confidence and enjoyment in your relationships with yourself and others.
How Can Therapy Help?
Conflict
People manage conflict in different ways. Some people may find that they often avoid conflict to ‘keep the peace,’ while others react strongly with anger or irritability. Therapy can help us understand more about your conflict style, and practice skills that may increase effective problem-solving and conflict management.
Mindfulness can be a helpful tool to improving communication and conflict management. In part, this is because mindfulness can help us become more aware of how our internal experiences (like thoughts and emotions) can interact with external circumstances.
communication
There are some areas that are commonly helpful to the improvement of relationships, including effective communication. Sometimes communication is ineffective because we want to please others, feel guilty, or are not confident. Sometimes we simply do not know how to say something. Has it ever felt hard to tell your partner you don't feel heard? Therapy for relationship issues can teach you effective communication skills which can help increase your ability to express wants, needs, and emotions with greater ease.
Understand your experiences
Life experiences can shape how we show up in relationships. Some of those experiences may have left us feeling under-valued, invalidated, or questioning our worth. These experiences may be a thing of the past, or they may be ongoing. Either way, they can influence relationships with ourselves and others. Therapy can provide a safe space for processing and support, while striving to understand the impact of these experiences and move toward meaningful change.
Boundaries
Has it ever felt hard saying “no" to others, or separating your work and home life? These are examples of when boundaries could be helpful. Therapy can aim to uncover what types of boundaries could enhance your quality of life, relationships with others, and relationship with yourself.