People often come to therapy because of difficulties in their relationships with partners, friends, and family members. Relationships are essential to our emotional wellbeing, but connection to others can often bring us pain, such as rejection, anxiety, or anger. Common relationship issues include feeling unseen, loss of self, loneliness, irritation, and invalidation. People tend to have specific patterns in how they manage the balance between closeness and independence. Therapy can be a unique opportunity to gain perspective on your relationship patterns and see where your needs are not being met. See below for some tools and insights you could learn in therapy:

• Your therapist will help you identify your typical relationship patterns and where they come from.

• Your therapist will help you identify core beliefs about ones self and others that negatively impact relationships.

• Your therapist will help you identify those dynamics as they arise in the therapy room to explore those emotions and beliefs in real-time and experiment with different ways of relating to the therapist as practice.

• Your therapist will help you set healthy boundaries with others to maintain both the relationship and your sense of self.

• Your therapist will help you change your behavior in relationships so that you can fill more fulfilled by your connections.

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