How you operate
You’re the kind of person who struggles to set boundaries for fear of inconveniencing or burdening others. Perhaps you sacrifice your own wants and needs for those you care about. You may struggle to get vulnerable even with the people closest to you. Or, maybe you come on too strong. You push people away and just can’t seem to hold on to relationships. Either way — your relationships aren’t what you want them to be.
How we help
We’ll navigate this together by both building insight into what is challenging you about the relationship and experimenting with how you behave in it. We may do this in the context of individual therapy or with your partner(s) (whatever the nature of the relationship). We use the therapeutic relationship as a proxy for other relationships in your life, meaning we’ll teach you assertiveness, validation, and/or interpersonal effectiveness skills and encourage you to practice them with your therapist at a pace that feels comfortable for you. We’ll work our way together to translating these skills to your outside relationships, and then debrief the experience and problem solve as needed.
