Individual Therapy for Relationships & People Pleasing in Colorado Springs | Online Across CO & FL
Finally feel secure in yourself, your relationships, & your life.
Somewhere along the way, something interfered with your sense of self-worth.
Maybe it was a relationship from very early in life - a parent who wasn’t available, an addiction that ran your household, or the constant criticism you lived under.
Or maybe it’s a relational event that happened more recently - a breakup, a strained significant relationship in your life, a narcissistic personality in your orbit, or a betrayal.
It left you feeling disconnected from who you are and the life you want.
It shows up in your relationships now as trouble with boundaries, struggles with self-esteem, difficulty finding your own voice, and a deep sense of insecurity. It leaves you doing things that only add to your anxiety, but you don’t know how to stop…
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You worry excessively about what others think about you, have trouble feeling valued, and struggle to believe someone could truly care about you.
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You frequently worry that others are upset with you, ruminate over things you said or did, and are very hard on yourself. You are often left feeling like people don’t like you… and, if you’re honest, sometimes you don’t really like yourself.
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You’re overwhelmed by the needs of others, carry burdens for the people around you, struggle to feel like it’s ever enough, and have lost a sense of your own hopes and dreams.
You’re caught between feeling the responsibility to keep shouldering it all and feeling the need to escape. It leaves you in a steady state of anxiety, overwhelm, or depression. You’ve started to feel like a pressure cooker without a release valve.
Your self-worth doesn’t have to be tied to other people or what has happened in the past.
Therapy for Relationships & People Pleasing Can Help You Can Heal
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You can feel self-confident regardless of what others think, be secure in your own value and worth, carry yourself with confidence, and feel whole again.
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You can find security in your relationships, freedom from responsibilities that aren’t yours, confidence to assert yourself, release from taking things so much to heart, and boundaries to cope with difficult relationships.
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You can process the trauma that got you here, experience greater and deeper healing, and move forward less preoccupied with pain from the past or fears about the future.
I’ll walk you step by step through how to accept the reality of where you are and what has brought you here so we can figure out what to do next.
Together we can heal the experiences that have chipped away at your self-worth, identify and assert boundaries that protect you and your most significant relationships, and build more of a life you love and can enjoy to the fullest moving forward.
THERAPY FOR RELATIONSHIPS & PEOPLE-PLEASING CAN HELP YOU…
Live confident in your own self-worth
Feel secure in your relationships
Accept yourself regardless of what others think
Identify and set healthy boundaries
Resolve past relational pain and trauma
You can go from feeling broken to feeling whole again.
Frequently asked questions
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I don’t work with couples in my practice, I support individuals in understanding and healing patterns that are connected to distress in their relationships. I’m always happy to provide referrals to couples or family therapists I trust if that becomes a need in the course of our work together.
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Addictions of all kinds create extremely complex relationship dynamics that can be hard to figure out on your own. While we can’t change the patterns of addiction in the other person, we can help you find the boundaries and skills to cope with the pain caused by the relationship and find a way forward that is healthy for you.
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Untreated mental health issues in a partner or family member, whether it’s depression, anxiety, narcissistic tendencies, or unresolved trauma, can place a tremendous burden on you and your life - and it’s not selfish to acknowledge your own needs in the situation. Together we’ll look at the issues in the relationship, the impact on you, and a course of action that can create change in your life whether you choose to continue in the relationship or not.
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Many relationship issues in the present have a connection to relational experiences from the past. EMDR can be extremely helpful in resolving pain from past experiences and trauma so that you are freed up to have confidence and clarity in your choices moving forward.
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It can feel really vulnerable going to therapy with marriage problems knowing you need help but you don’t want to leave, and feeling worried you’ll be pushed towards a decision you don’t think is right for you. My primary job as a therapist is to help you identify your goals for the future and then partner with you to find the path that gets you there, not to tell you what to do or push you towards a specific course of action. I will always respect your desires and choices for your own life, and incorporate your values into my suggestions and support.