Relationship & Codependency Therapy for Women
Your relationships could be better…
Do you find yourself in the same relationship patterns over and over?
Somehow, you keep picking the wrong partner. You don’t understand what you’re doing wrong, and you feel hopeless.
Maybe it’s difficult for you to voice your feelings. You want to open up more and be less guarded, but it’s scary, and you tend to shut down. You feel unlovable and fear abandonment.
Perhaps you find yourself struggling to say “no” to a partner or family member. You go out of your way to please them, even if this means putting your happiness on the back burner. You feel compelled to take care of them first.
You’re so used to putting others first that you might not even recognize your own needs aren’t being met. You might adopt your partner’s needs and preferences as your own in an attempt to keep them happy.
Or maybe you’ve found a healthy partner but you worry about their problems. You feel compelled to “fix” them and become frustrated when your attempts don’t work. You notice that your mood depends on your partner and their emotions become yours.
You might question your worthiness of the relationships in your life. You feel that if people knew who you really are deep down, they would leave you.
Whether it be a romantic partner, a friend, a family member, or a coworker, relationships are hard. Really hard. It can be so disheartening when you find yourself stuck in the same unfulfilling and unhealthy relationships. We get it.
You can break free of these cycles
(for good!)
Imagine what it would be like to experience honesty, trust, respect, communication, and safety in your relationships. You can enjoy personal time away from one another without fearing abandonment. You feel equal and make mutual choices that feel good.
You’re able to say no to others without feeling guilty. Your feelings of worthiness and love are independent of your partner’s happiness.
If you’re struggling with relationships in your life, you are not alone. Relationship patterns are adaptive responses to painful experiences from the past. It is possible to heal from these painful experiences, break free from these patterns, and find healthy partners and friends.
Working on yourself can benefit your relationships!
Although we do not provide couples therapy (when both individuals are involved in the therapy process), relationships often improve when clients seek individual growth work.
Getting hurt by someone we love is inevitable. Parts of us take on extreme beliefs about these experiences, for example, “I’m unlovable.” These wounded parts often seek out people who represent the ones that originally hurt us in an attempt to be redeemed. Of course, this doesn’t end well, the wound gets deeper, and the cycle continues.
Therapy can help to uncover the underlying causes of these cycles and help you break free from them so that you can experience healthy relationships.
Therapy Approaches We Use for Deep, Lasting Healing
EMDR Therapy
If past memories still trigger overwhelming emotions, EMDR therapy helps your brain reprocess them in a way that removes their power over you.
IFS Therapy
If part of you wants to heal, but another part resists, Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy helps you understand and work with these inner conflicts so you feel more balanced.
Individual Therapy
Because trauma isn’t just stored in the mind, but also in the body, specialized individual therapy will help you reconnect with a sense of safety and peace.
Questions or concerns about relationship therapy?
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Although we do not provide couples therapy (when both individuals are involved in the therapy process), relationships often improve when people seek individual growth work.
How we relate to our own characteristics is how we relate to others who represent those characteristics. For example, if you feel that saying “no” to others is mean, you likely feel others are being mean to you when they tell you no, even if there is no malice behind it.
Throughout our work together, you will be more accepting of, and less reactive to, others who used to bother you; you can relate to them with compassion because you’re able to do that with characteristics of you that resemble them.
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Of course! Just as we could work on your anxiety if you weren’t experiencing symptoms in session, we will explore your history and identify patterns in your relationships.
We use evidence-based modalities that allow you to “connect the dots,” gain a deeper understanding of your internal and external experiences, and get to the “root” of your issues so you can heal from experiences that drive these patterns.
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We understand that therapy is an emotional and financial investment in your future. We care deeply about providing the best possible experience for each of our clients and take a limited number of clients. We take our mental health and professional development very seriously and value work/life balance to ensure we remain passionate about our work and fully committed to providing the best possible care. This allows our clients to achieve their goals more quickly than working with therapists who are overworked and burnt out.
When you invest in therapy, you invest in your quality of life and general well-being. Imagine how liberating it would feel to finally be at peace, be free, and live the life you deserve.
EMPWR blends EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help women break free from past pain and step into their most empowered selves.
But beyond the techniques, she’s created a space where you can feel truly seen and heard—without judgment, without pressure. But more than techniques, she believes therapy is about creating a space where you can be fully seen and heard. Her compassionate, evidence-based approach empowers you to move forward with confidence.