Relationships

Therapy to strengthen your relationship with yourself and to feel more safe, connected, and fulfilled in your relationships with others.

Relationships are at the center of our wellbeing - when they are strained or out of sync so too can be all other areas of your life. Perhaps you continue to have recurring arguments or breakdowns within your communication with others, or you have trouble setting boundaries. You’ve tried to improve your relationships, but things haven’t shifted. If you want to feel more connected and grounded within your relationship to yourself and others, relationship focused therapy can help.

Build trusting, connected, and safe relationships with yourself and with those closest to you.

Relationship Therapy:

  • Focusing on the relationship you have with yourself can be one of the biggest gifts you give yourself. Your relationship to yourself includes self acceptance, self compassion, understanding perfectionism, boundaries, body acceptance, or understanding your attachment and relational patterns.

    For anyone who wishes to strengthen their relationship to themselves and with their loved ones.

  • Having a child can open us up to ourselves in profound ways. Parenting is like holding up a mirror to your own vulnerabilities. This can feel especially challenging when you find your child’s behaviors difficult to understand or manage.

    I enjoy working with parents and help you improve your relationship with yourself to begin parenting in a way that feels good for you and your child(ren).

    Learn more about my work with parents and perinatal individuals HERE

  • Significant life changes of any type can be stressful and challenging to navigate. Major change can come into your life unexpectedly or be an anticipated part of your journey.

    Emotional discomfort, grief, and fear are common experiences during times of change that may lead to anxiety, depression, and loss of self-esteem. It takes time to adjust to life’s transitions. Having support through change can help you understand and cope with the stressors of adjusting through the transitions in your life. Therapy can help in building understanding, processing change and uncertainty, and building acceptance towards current or previous life transitions in a way that feels supportive to you.

  • Divorce is one of the most stressful life event one can experience. There are known stressors such as the idea of starting over again, financial changes, and walking your children and family emotionally through the changes that are occurring, but there’s also loss of identity, life as you thought it would be, and all of the unknowns and changes that lie ahead.

    If you are feeling alone, scared, overwhelmed, or experiencing tremendous grief, please know this is one of the biggest transitions you’ll go through in your lifetime.

    Surviving the pain of divorce takes time, and with support you can begin healing from this very challenging time in life. I will support you in your transition into post-divorce life, helping you focus on your emotional needs and the emotional needs of your family.

Do you:

- Notice recurring patterns that continue to emerge inside your relationships?

- Put others needs ahead of your own or struggle to communicate your needs?

- Struggle with setting boundaries?

- Feel disconnected from yourself or your loved ones?

- Offer love to everyone around you without offering that same love to yourself?

- Feel grief or overwhelm due to life’s challenges and transitions?

- Feel reactive or guilty because your communication doesn’t align with how you want to show up with others?

Navigating the stress and pain of challenges within your relationships takes time. With support you can begin healing and gain clarity within your relationships.

Connect with yourself and those around you on a deeper level.

Learn how to identify and navigate challenging relationship patterns.

Learn to set boundaries, express your needs, and affectively communicate.

Heal from past relationships, and increase self-esteem and self compassion.

Relationship Therapy FAQs:

  • On occasion I work with couples for a time limited and specific circumstance. This typically occurs when working with someone in the perinatal period to assist in building a family plan for support.

    Individual relationship therapy is an opportunity for you to explore and strengthen your relationship with yourself and others.

    There are times where I recommend also working with a couples therapist, and can provide appropriate referrals.

    Learn more about my perinatal work HERE

  • Any relationship, current or in the past can be discussed in therapy. Clients often explore their relationship to themselves, partner, children, parents, friends, and colleagues.

    Relationship to the self include self acceptance, self compassion, perfectionism, boundaries, gender and sexual identity, body acceptance, or understanding your attachment and relational patterns.

  • Everyone deserves relationships free from physical, emotional, and psychological abuse. With experience working at a domestic violence agency and a certificate in violence against women and children, helping individuals understand abuse patterns in current or past relationships as well as building safety and healing is a primary clinical focus.

    Therapy for victims of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, and individuals living in high conflict relationships.

Individual relationship focused therapy throughout New Jersey