Counseling and therapy for Relationship issues in Washington, DC, and across Virginia and North Carolina
Tired of unhealthy patterns in your relationships?
Having trouble feeling close to your partner? Often engaged in conflicts or power struggles? Or that your relationships start off great, then over time you find yourself growing bored and pulling away from your partner, wondering if there is something better for you?
On the other hand, some of us feel as if a relationship will help us feel safe and make up for something missing inside of us. Yet, over time, we realize those old wounds of insecurity and self-doubt are still there.
If you are finding you are stuck in certain relational patterns that you would like to change, you have come to the right place
Do any of these patterns sound like you?
Insecure-Anxious Attachment Style
You often seek a high level of intimacy, approval, and responsiveness with your partner, even becoming overly dependent on them.
Maybe you find you want to be emotionally intimate with others, but find others are reluctant to get as close as you would like.
Or that you want to be close with others, but often pull away and detach out of fear or vulnerability or being hurt, finding it difficult to express your needs?
Avoidant Attachment Style
You are very independent. You like to do things on your own, and not have to rely on others.
You tend to have low levels of emotional interactions, and maybe other's have described you as being a bit distant or detached at times. You can feel frustrated or misunderstood when your partners pressures you to be more close or emotionally expressive with them.
Maybe you learned in your family that emotions where not safe, or that emotions were not allowed to be expressed in a direct way.
Fearful Attachment Style
You find closeness and relationships to be scary. It is difficulty to put your trust in others' and be vulnerable.
You want to be emotionally close, but due to trust issues and fear of being hurt or taken advantage of, you find it hard to depend on them.
And you find your relationships have a certain pattern to them: The start off intense, then over time you