Help for Relationship Issues

Repeating the same painful dynamics — giving too much, struggling to be heard, or wondering why connection feels so hard — doesn't have to be permanent. Counseling can help you understand where these patterns come from and start to change them.

Your relationships shape everything — how you see yourself, how safe you feel, how connected you are to your own life.

Maybe you keep ending up in the same kind of relationship, wondering how you got here again. Maybe you give everything you have and still feel like it's never enough. Maybe you struggle to speak up for yourself, set limits with people you love, or trust that someone will actually stay. Or maybe things on the outside look fine, but something feels persistently off in the way you connect with the people closest to you.

You don't need to be in a crisis to work on this. And you don't need a partner in the room to do meaningful work on your relationships.

How can counseling help with anxiety & depression?

  • Recognize the patterns you keep repeating across relationships

  • Understand where those patterns came from and why they make sense

  • Build healthier boundaries without guilt

  • Develop your voice and learn to ask for what you need

  • Heal from painful relationship experiences — breakups, estrangement, betrayal

  • Cultivate a stronger, more secure relationship with yourself as the foundation for everything else

Where relational patterns usually come from:

The way we relate to others as adults is largely shaped by what we learned early on — about whether our needs would be met, whether it was safe to be vulnerable, whether love came with conditions. Those early experiences don't just disappear. They show up in how we fight, how we pull away, how much we tolerate, and how we feel about ourselves in relation to other people.

This isn't about blame — not of your family, your past partners, or yourself. It's about understanding the blueprint you've been working from, so you can start to change it…through a relationship with a counselor (so meta!). 

What we work on together:

In counseling, we'll look at the patterns showing up in your relationships and trace them back to their roots. We'll work on understanding your needs, finding your voice, and building the kind of relationships — romantic, family, friendships — that actually feel good to be in. Not perfect, but real, mutual, and grounded.

The relationship you have with yourself underlies all of it. When that shifts, everything else tends to shift with it.

Two people with backpacks standing on a rocky hilltop under a partly cloudy sky.