Finding relationships tricky?
Psychotherapy can help to repair or establish boundaries needed in a friendship, with family and in your partnership or to let go. To accept that it’s ok to want relationships to feel safe, mutual and kind. In therapy, you can start to figure out what kind of relationships feel nourishing, not just familiar.
How Can Therapy Help You To Have Better Relationships?
In therapy, you can explore how you do relationships and what that can say about how you see yourself. It can bring out what we believe we deserve, and what we’ve learned about closeness. It can be helpful to understand why it’s so hard to let go of a relationship, even when something doesn’t feel right; perhaps what the guilt might be about if you’ve grown up in an environment where you’ve been taught to make sure everyone is ok.
Good Friendship = The Good Life
A loving relationship. Romantic love is held up as the solution to all, but in reality relationships aren’t all movie like; there’s the moods, baggage and the human-ness. Then there is good friendship and sometimes we don’t stop to notice how much our good friends matter. Friendship is where we get to just be. No family history. No romantic expectations. No job description. Just people choosing to show up for each other, again and again. In a good friendship there’s no pressure to be perfect or to impress. You can be a little messy, a bit lost, and still feel like you belong. Good friends get it. They understand your silences and they don’t take your distance personally. They’ll text you when they’re thinking of you, even if you haven’t spoken in months. When you do speak, no matter how long after the time before, you pick up where you left off. Therapy can help you to have better friendships, built on mutual respect, trust and love.
Families. Love and Festive Dread
From a young age, we’re given a pretty clear picture of what a “good life” should look like. A wonderful family; families are supposed to be our safe place. The people who’ve known us forever. But sometimes they’re confusing, demanding, or distant. We can leave family gatherings more tense than uplifted, wondering if it’s us, or just how it’s always been. Then there’s the festive break which can be, for many, a nightmare fuelled by simply being back under the same roof as our parents, knowing that we’re regressing to a teenage-like state and feeling unable to do anything about it. Therapy can help you to unpick why you might go back to the parent-child relationship and help you to find ways to have more meaningful relationships in your adult self.
Therapy For Stronger Relationships
Therapy provides a vital space to pause, breathe, and sort through the noise; yours and theirs. Whether you’re navigating challenges with friends, family members, or a romantic partner, therapy helps to uncover what’s really happening beneath the arguments, the silence, or the feeling of being stuck. Through therapy for relationships, friendships, or family dynamics, you can better understand why certain situations trigger you more than expected, identify your core needs, and learn how to communicate them clearly. Therapy also helps you to recognize how past experiences shape your current relationships. Most importantly, it supports you in clarifying what you truly want from connection and shows you how to move toward it with greater confidence, clarity, and compassion.