Relationship & Interpersonal Difficulties

Relationships can bring out parts of us that don't show up anywhere else

The way we feel and behave around other people can be complicated.

You may be confident in some areas of your life but find yourself second-guessing everything around certain people. You might have difficulty saying no, worry about disappointing others, avoid conflict, or spend hours replaying an interaction and wondering what someone meant.

Perhaps the same patterns seem to follow you across romantic relationships, friendships, family relationships, or even the workplace.

Therapy can provide a place to understand these patterns without reducing them to "what's wrong with you."

You might come to therapy because...

• You have difficulty setting or maintaining boundaries

• You worry about rejection, abandonment, criticism, or disappointing others

• You find yourself people-pleasing or putting other people's needs ahead of your own

• Conflict feels overwhelming, so you avoid saying what you really think or need

• You repeatedly find yourself in similar relationship dynamics

• You struggle to trust others or let people get close

• You withdraw when relationships become emotionally intense

• You feel overly responsible for other people's feelings or reactions

• You often feel left out, misunderstood, or unsure where you stand with others

• A friendship has changed or ended and you're struggling with the loss

• You are navigating difficult dynamics with a colleague, supervisor, or workplace

• You have difficulty being assertive or advocating for yourself at work

• You are coping with infidelity, betrayal, secrecy, or a breach of trust

• You are struggling with whether to stay in or leave a romantic relationship

• You are navigating monogamy, polyamory, or consensual non-monogamy

• You want to better understand your attachment or interpersonal patterns

Relationships take many forms

Our lives are shaped by many kinds of relationships—with partners, friends, family members, colleagues, supervisors, and the broader communities we belong to. Difficulties in any of these relationships can affect how we feel about ourselves and how comfortable, connected, and secure we feel with others.

Romantic relationships can bring questions about intimacy, attachment, communication, trust, jealousy, commitment, boundaries, and compatibility.

Friendships can carry their own challenges—feeling excluded, navigating changing friendships, struggling with reciprocity or boundaries, experiencing conflict, or grieving a friendship that has ended.

And workplace relationships can be surprisingly emotional. Conflict with a colleague, difficulty with a supervisor, feeling undervalued or excluded, navigating different personalities, or struggling to speak up can affect both your confidence and your experience of work.

How Therapy Can Help

Depending on your goals, therapy might focus on communication, assertiveness, boundaries, attachment patterns, emotional awareness, conflict, trust, vulnerability, intimacy, jealousy, people-pleasing, or becoming more comfortable expressing what you think, feel, and need.

Sometimes the work is about strengthening a relationship. Sometimes it's about deciding whether a relationship is right for you. Sometimes it's about navigating a difficult person or situation that you can't simply walk away from.

And sometimes it's about changing the way you experience yourself in relationships altogether.