Your Relationships Shape Your Life. We’ll Help You Make Them Thrive.

The relationships in our lives have a profound impact on our well-being.  Everything else becomes harder when our closest connections feel strained and complicated or when those close connections are missing altogether.

You don’t have to navigate relationship challenges alone. At Authentic Care Counseling, we provide individual therapy to help you understand relationship patterns and create the meaningful connections you deserve with family, friends, and partners.

Our approach focuses on YOU and how you show up in relationships, giving you practical tools to build healthier dynamics with everyone in your life.

Finding A New Path When Relationships Go Awry

Human connection is a fundamental need, but relationships are never simple. Our cultural expectations and family patterns set the foundation of our experience. Our past experiences and attachment styles influence how we connect (or struggle to connect) with others.

In our practice, we work to uncover and understand:

  • Family dynamics — Feeling caught between family loyalty and personal boundaries, dealing with cultural pressures, or struggling with caregiving responsibilities while maintaining your peace of mind
  • Social anxiety and isolation — Wanting deeper friendships but not knowing how to make or maintain them (or avoiding social situations altogether)
  • Boundary difficulties — Saying yes when you mean no, feeling guilty for prioritizing your needs, or not knowing how to communicate limits without conflict
  • Dating and partnership challenges — Repeating unhealthy relationship patterns, or struggling with commitment or vulnerability
  • Friendship conflicts — Dealing with one-sided friendships, growing apart from old friends, or wanting to deepen existing connections

The goal isn’t to change other people. It’s to grow yourself. Together, we’ll understand your patterns, clarify your values, and develop the skills to thrive.

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Our Relationship Therapy Focuses

Therapy for Complex Family Dynamics

Family relationships are often the most complicated. You can’t choose them, but they end up shaping who you become. We help you navigate these complex waters and create healthier relationships while maintaining healthy boundaries.

  • Managing pressure to act in a certain way or follow family traditions
  • Setting boundaries with family members while maintaining connection
  • Balancing caregiving responsibilities with self-care
  • Dealing with family conflict or toxic dynamics

Therapy for Social Connections and Friendships

Friendships are chosen family, but you still need the skills to keep them strong. From managing social anxiety to dealing with delicate interpersonal conflicts, we’ll build the skills needed to build and maintain strong friendships.

  • Overcoming social anxiety to make new connections
  • Deepening existing friendships
  • Dealing with friendship conflicts or betrayals
  • Managing “feeling left” out or socially disconnected

Therapy for Intimate Partnerships and Dating

Individual therapy can be incredibly helpful for working through different relationship challenges. We help you understand your patterns, improve your relationship skills, and show up more authentically in romantic connections.

  • Breaking unhealthy dating patterns
  • Developing emotional intimacy skills
  • Learning to communicate needs and boundaries
  • Working through trust issues or past relationship trauma

We are fully supportive of diverse identities and relationship structures, including interracial or cross-cultural partnerships, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and both monogamous and non-monogamous relationships.

Workplace and Professional Relationships

The relationships at work significantly impact your daily life and career satisfaction. We help you navigate office politics, set professional boundaries, and build positive working relationships.

  • Navigating office politics and difficult colleagues
  • Setting healthy professional boundaries and how to say no
  • Building positive working relationships through communication skills

Therapy for Complex Family Dynamics

Family relationships are often the most complicated. You can’t choose them, but they end up shaping who you become. We help you navigate these complex waters and create healthier relationships while maintaining healthy boundaries.

  • Managing pressure to act in a certain way or follow family traditions
  • Setting boundaries with family members while maintaining connection
  • Balancing caregiving responsibilities with self-care
  • Dealing with family conflict or toxic dynamics

Therapy for Social Connections and Friendships

Friendships are chosen family, but you still need the skills to keep them strong. From managing social anxiety to dealing with delicate interpersonal conflicts, we’ll build the skills needed to build and maintain strong friendships.

  • Overcoming social anxiety to make new connections
  • Deepening existing friendships
  • Dealing with friendship conflicts or betrayals
  • Managing “feeling left” out or socially disconnected

Therapy for Intimate Partnerships and Dating

Individual therapy can be incredibly helpful for working through different relationship challenges. We help you understand your patterns, improve your relationship skills, and show up more authentically in romantic connections.

  • Breaking unhealthy dating patterns
  • Developing emotional intimacy skills
  • Learning to communicate needs and boundaries
  • Working through trust issues or past relationship trauma

We are fully supportive of diverse identities and relationship structures, including interracial or cross-cultural partnerships, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and both monogamous and non-monogamous relationships.

Workplace and Professional Relationships

The relationships at work significantly impact your daily life and career satisfaction. We help you navigate office politics, set professional boundaries, and build positive working relationships.

  • Navigating office politics and difficult colleagues
  • Setting healthy professional boundaries and how to say no
  • Building positive working relationships through communication skills

Our Approach to Relationships & Connection

At Authentic Care Counseling, we focus on helping YOU develop the skills and insights needed to create healthier relationships. With individual therapy, you’ll grow in understanding of your patterns and learn practical tools for change.

Step 1: Unlocking Your Relationship Patterns

We explore how your family of origin, cultural background, and past experiences shaped your approach to relationships. Understanding these patterns is the first step to changing them.

Step 2: Clarifying Your Values and Boundaries

What do YOU want from your relationships? We help you identify your core values and learn to set boundaries that honor both your needs and your connections with others.

Step 3: Developing Relationship Skills

From communication to conflict resolution to emotional regulation, we teach practical skills you can use in any relationship. These aren’t just theories—they’re tools you’ll practice and integrate into your daily life.

Our work in assertiveness and communication skills helps you learn to express your needs clearly and directly without aggression or passive-aggression.

Step 4: Creating Meaningful Change

Change starts with you. As you develop healthier patterns and clearer boundaries, your relationships naturally begin to shift. We support you through this process of growth and transformation.

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Our Evidence-Based Approaches for Relationship Growth

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Helps you clarify what matters most in relationships and take action aligned with your values, even when it’s difficult

Narrative Therapy

Explores the stories you tell yourself about relationships and helps you rewrite them in more empowering ways

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Addresses thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to relationship difficulties

Solution-Focused Therapy

Builds on your existing strengths and past successes to create positive change in your relationships

Mindfulness-Based Approaches

Help you develop present-moment awareness to improve emotional regulation and communication

Explore Your Connections In Safety

Our therapists understand that relationships exist within complex cultural, family, and social contexts. That’s why we build a non-judgmental space where you can explore your patterns and feelings within yourself.

When you work with us, you can expect:

  • Complete confidentiality to explore relationship challenges openly
  • Understanding of how cultural background influences relationship dynamics
  • Practical tools and strategies you can use immediately
  • Support for all types of relationships and identities
  • Focus on your growth and empowerment, not changing others

Your relationships don’t have to stay stuck in old patterns. Individual therapy can create profound shifts in how you connect with others.

Let’s Discuss Your Next Step

You deserve relationships that feel supportive, authentic, and fulfilling. Whether you’re dealing with family drama, friendship challenges, or dating difficulties, change is possible when you have the right support.

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FAQ

Individual therapy helps you understand your patterns, develop better communication skills, set healthier boundaries, and work through your own emotions and reactions. When you change how you show up in relationships, the dynamics often shift naturally.

We focus on individual therapy that addresses relationship challenges. While we don’t provide couples or family therapy sessions, we help individuals navigate complex dynamics with family members, friends, and romantic partners more effectively.

Cultural and family differences around boundaries are common. We help you set boundaries that honor your needs while considering your cultural context and family relationships. It’s about finding balance, not cutting people off.

Yes! Many adults struggle with making friends after school or major life changes. We help you understand what might be holding you back, develop social skills, and create authentic connections with others.

Therapy provides a safe space to explore this difficult question without pressure to make immediate decisions. We help you clarify your values, assess the relationship’s impact on your wellbeing, and decide what’s healthiest for you.

Repeated relationship patterns often reflect unconscious beliefs or unmet needs. Through therapy, you can identify these patterns, understand what drives them, and develop new ways of connecting that attract healthier relationships.

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