Individual Therapy for Relationships in Claremont and online across California
Cultivate connection, love, and trust.
Has anger, distrust, and feeling unloved made it difficult to be happy in your relationship?
Being apart from your partner and alone is extremely hard…
You feel anxious and scared.
You can’t stop crying.
When they need space, you freak out.
You blow up your partner’s phone with texts and calls.
You don’t trust your partner…
No matter what they say or do you're constantly checking up on them and feel stressed when you don’t hear from them. You can’t help but feel jealous easily and wonder if you’re good enough for them.
Your mind wanders to worst case scenarios:
It always seems like they are lying to you or being shady. You constantly think they may leave you for someone else or are cheating.
You’ve been in toxic relationships…So it’s hard for you to let your walls down….you're so afraid of getting hurt again.
It seems like you're always angry…
You can never just feel happy, safe or calm so you rely heavily on your partner for emotional support.
You don’t know how to express yourself effectively…
Because your emotions just take over and say things that are mean (blame, name call, curse, and criticize) leaving you feeling guilty afterwards .Or you completely shut down and refuse to speak.
And when your significant other becomes angry or upset… you don’t know how to handle it. You don’t feel okay unless your partner is okay.
He says he loves you, but you…
Don’t really feel loved.
Often believe that he doesn’t.
Need constant reassurance of it.
Don’t feel worthy enough for him to stay long-term.
Think he may find someone “better”.
You don’t feeling deeply connected to him.
And you never feel good enough for your partner.
You’ve had enough
You know that if you keep going like this, your relationship is not going to last. Even if it does, you’ll end up constantly fighting, and resenting each other.
You’ve had enough of the arguments, and are so disappointed with how things have been going,-you're tired of the threats of breaking up.
You’re over it and want to stop feeling sad, scared, and anxious when it comes to your relationship.
You can feel happy, confident and loved.
Take a moment and imagine a life where you can:
Meet your own wants and needs.
Create a meaningful and fulfilling relationship.
Set healthy boundaries.
Enjoy spending time apart and together.
Have trust that will allow you to be more flexible, calm, and open.
Feel confident in yourself and your relationship.
Feel loved.
This is what therapy can do for you.
How individual therapy for Relationships works
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With therapy, you’ll learn how to identify what happens to your mind and body when you are experiencing distressing feelings. You’ll start to recognize patterns in your thinking and behaviors.
Also, you’ll gain awareness of not only what triggers you, but why. You’ll understand why it’s so difficult for you trust, feel loved, and have confidence in yourself and your relationship.
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You’ll learn skills that are not only healthier, but also more effective in managing your feelings. As much as many of us wish to rid our distress all together, that’s not possible. So you will gain the tools and confidence to tolerate and manage your emotions.
You'll have tools to use when you start to feel anxious and are left alone.
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You’ll learn how to paradoxically accept yourself and validate your feelings in order to cultivate change. Self-criticism or doubt will no longer dominate your thoughts and you will learn a healthier way of approaching yourself-especially the parts that you don’t like about yourself-with kindness, understanding and compassion.
You'll learn to development your own identify outside of your relationship, and become more comfortable being alone.
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You’ll cultivate compassion for yourself by gaining an understanding of how your possibly painful past experiences impacted you. With identifying deep wounds, you will learn how to heal those parts of you that constantly have your nervous system in survival mode.
Your partner will no longer be the only source of validation and love. You will stop overly depending on others and find peace by nourishing your own wants and needs with love and compassion.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness is being present, on purpose, and without judgment. With mindfulness-based interventions, you will learn to gain awareness of your feelings, bodily sensations, thought patterns, behaviors, environment, and relationships. Mindfulness helps you tolerate unpleasant emotions, cultivate self-acceptance, and enhance connection with yourself and others.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy uses opposite ideas-acceptance of who you are, and your desire to change-in order to ultimately lead to change. You will learn how to tolerate your distress, and manage difficult situations with the use of life skills. DBT helps you gain empowerment and control of your emotions.
Somatic Therapy
This approach focuses on regulating the nervous system through the body without feeling overwhelmed. You will learn how to SAFELY connect with and nurture your body when experiencing intense emotions related to traumatic experiences and triggers. Through these skills, you will build resilience- not only to survive, but to thrive!
Individual Therapy For Relationships Can Help You:
Trust yourself and your partner.
Build confidence that you can manage your emotions and conflict in your relationship.
Connect with yourself and your significant other.
Love yourself and your partner the way you’ve always wanted.
Enhance self-expression.
Gain self-understanding.
Process and heal from past trauma (s) or painful experiences.
The most loving thing you can do is invest in yourself.
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The most loving thing you can do is invest in yourself. 〰️
You don’t have to do this alone.
Together, let’s reclaim your happiness and peace.
FAQs
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You may have an anxious attachment style if you fear abandonment, lack trust in your partner, overly rely on them for emotional support and tend to have low self-worth.
More examples include: constantly seeking validation/reassurance from others/partner, constantly questioning partner’s commitment to you, overwhelming fear of a relationship ending, frequent threats to end a relationship, wanting connection, but pushing away, feeling fearful of having independence in your relationship.
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No, I do not offer couples therapy. I only offer individual therapy to address personal challenges that interfere with relationships. However, you may choose to participate in individual therapy with me and couples therapy with another therapist.
If you are seeking couples therapy, I will do my best to provide you with a referral.
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There is no set in stone timeline for therapy. It varies for everyone. Therapy is tailored specifically for each person based on their wants and needs. Therapy is not a quick fix and does take time.
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Individual therapy may be for you if:
You want to work on your own personal issues/challenges and how it affects your relationships.
You want treatment to be tailored to only you.
You are seeking privacy when talking about yourself and your relationship.
Your partner is unwilling or unable to participate in couples therapy.