Finding a good fit with a psychotherapist has been shown in studies to be the most important factor in determining a successful outcome. To make finding a good fit affordable for you, I offer first sessions at $60.
Please contact me to learn more about Healing Family Wounding treatment.
Superficial or unsatisfying friendships can leave us feeling even lonelier than if we’d just stayed home. Do drinking or drugs feel like a necessary part of interacting? How do we even meet people if it isn’t through work, dating, or at the bar? How can we create the closeness and warmth we long for? For some, making initial connections could be easy but they never lead to anything lasting. Figuring out how to get past initial contact to form a friendship can be really challenging and mysterious. For others, there may be a “line” of intimacy that no one is able to get past and while this has kept you safe, it has also kept people at a distance and caused a fair amount of suffering for you and others. Perhaps you can’t even remember the last time you met what you would call a close friend. It seemed so easy when we were younger…
For most of us, friends and family make up a big part of how supported and loved we feel in the world. They are the people we turn to for help, support, or to bring us energy. They bring richness and joy and share their lives with us. At least that is how they are in their best moments and how we would like them to be. Through learning skills that support connection, understanding our role in the dynamics we create and figuring out where we get stuck or triggered… some of them can be. While all of these situations can be discouraging, we can work with how you relate to these relationships and build the skills to:
- feel steadier and confident in personal relationships
- become activated or triggered less often
- learn how to ask for and look for the kind of connections we want
- feel supported and nourished
- be a better friend