What We Treat

Our parents (or other caretakers) are our first lesson about relationships. When parenting is unstable, unreliable, or unsafe it can affect our ability to trust others and love ourselves. This can lead to people pleasing or avoiding others in friendships and/or romantic relationships.

Therapy helps to understand the hurt you come from and heal past pain.

Do you find yourself struggling to make relationships work? Do you always seem to find the wrong people? Or find the right person and then want to push them away?

When trying to love and trust people has hurt you in the past, dating and marriage can feel like waiting for something to go wrong instead of the safety, trust, warmth we hope for.

Therapy can help heal past hurts and build secure relationships with others and yourself.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a condition that stems from experiencing people or situations that damage your sense of trust and safety. This can come from physical or sexual abuse, but it can also come from people being verbally and emotionally abusive, not having things you need to survive, or from living in unstable homes.

Therapy helps to rebuild a sense of trust and safety that has been taken from us.

When a person isn’t given the love and care they need, it can be hard to believe you are valuable or that others actually value you. This can lead to trying to “earn your worth” through people-pleasing or not seek connection because you don’t feel worth it.

In therapy, I help people learn how to love and respect themselves and help people build a relationship with their self