Individual Therapy for relationship Issues in Los Angeles, CA
Relationships are challenging. Whether you’ve found the right person or are struggling to figure it out, relationships take a lot of work. They require an intricate dance of different communication styles, temperaments, preferences, and experiences.
You want to feel seen, heard, and known. You struggle to identify your needs or share them with your partner in a meaningful and connected way. Your bids for closeness or understanding lead you to feel disconnected and disappointed and you either shut down or react. Emotions quickly rise to the surface and you feel vulnerable, misunderstood, and alone.
Maybe you decide to make your needs smaller, to hold back hoping your partner will understand or read your mind. Maybe you withdraw wanting them to know you’re hurt, or maybe you lash out. Perhaps you find yourself going down a road filled with name-calling, making ultimatums, or throwing out “You always…” or “You never…” statements. The pattern repeats. It’s overwhelming and messy and yet you can’t find your way out of the cycle. You want to make a change.
Struggling with Trust
Trust can also play a role in the way that you show up within relationships. Perhaps you’ve been cheated on or lied to in the past. Maybe you’ve experienced or witnessed emotional or physical abuse. For some, this can lead us to hold our breath - waiting for the other shoe to drop. For others, it may mean holding back from being emotionally vulnerable and opening up. Or it may lead you to look for any evidence that you’re being betrayed so you won’t feel surprised again.
Why Individual Therapy for Relationship Issues Might be Right for You
Or perhaps, you struggle with self-trust. Maybe you wonder if you can trust yourself within a relationship. Can I trust myself to choose the right partner, to state my needs or to even know what I need? Can I trust myself to walk away and choose me even if that means that I’ll end up on my own? Can I trust that I can heal and build a new healthy relationship in the future?
Prepared to Identify your Needs
This is often where people decide they’re ready to try Individual Therapy for Relationship Issues. They feel helpless, exhausted, and lost. They want to know that they’re not failing. That they are capable of being in a relationship. That they’re not unworthy of love or somehow broken. You are worthy of love. You are a whole human and there is hope.
Individual Therapy for Relationship Issues is effective even if your partner isn’t ready or open to relationship counseling. You can do the bold and beautiful work of identifying your needs, learning to communicate in a way that is in alignment with your values, and challenging your internal scripts around worth in relationship.
Who Can Benefit from Individual Therapy for Relationship Issues?
Relationships are complex. They don’t come naturally, and with work, they can improve and flourish. One of the benefits of being a Los Angeles therapist is that I’ve helped individuals address common relationship issues like:
Stressors in a relationship with a romantic partner, best friend, coworker, family member, business partner, co-worker, etc…
Feeling lonely, misunderstood, hurt, or resentful
Wanting to improve communication
Difficulty identifying your own needs or feeling like your needs are too much
Dimming yourself and your needs in order to put others first
People pleasing and accepting less than you want and deserve
Fear of rejection or judgment
Struggling with stress around trust (self-trust or trust in your relationship)
Difficulty establishing healthy boundaries in relationships
“We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.”
— Jon Kabat Zinn
Establish Worthiness & Wellness in Your Relationship with the Support of a Therapist
Individual Therapy for Relationship Issues can help you challenge and address old patterns, navigate underlying triggers, and begin to show up in your relationships more authentically. I believe that you are worthy of change and creating the life you want and that you are doing the absolute best you can with the skills you currently have. Through Individual Therapy for Relationship Issues and Trust Issues, I have seen my clients increase their self-awareness, challenge old scripts of “I’m too much” or “I’m not enough,” and step authentically into their lives with confidence and direction. They can confidently identify and state their needs. They can establish healthy boundaries. With support, they can notice and acknowledge their strengths. They can more fearlessly and unapologetically show up as themselves.
Start Individual Therapy for Relationship Issues in Los Angeles, CA
You do not have to go to therapy with your partner to strengthen your relationship. You can start the work of having a healthier relationship in individual therapy for relationship issues. As a Psychologist for women in Los Angeles, I can help enhance the way you communicate, address any trust issues, and identify your strengths. Follow these steps to get started:
Reach out for a free consultation with a Psychologist
Schedule your first appointment at Worth and Wellness Psychology
Start establishing worthiness and wellness within your relationship
Other Therapy Services I Offer in Los Angeles, CA
Besides counseling for trust issues and relationship issues, I also offer a variety of other individual therapy services in Los Angeles. This includes EMDR therapy, trauma therapy, dating therapy, and anxiety therapy. Additionally, I provide support and guidance for Highly Sensitive People, women of color, and therapists.
All of these services are available in person at my therapy office in LA or online throughout California.