Relationships

Essential skill development for meaningful social connection

By working on basic developmental social skills, clients with insecure attachment and trauma histories can learn to build healthy, meaningful relationships.

Voice of Experience: The gift of friendship

Supportive friendships can improve people’s professional and personal lives and remind them that life is more than just work.

Forming friendships as a neurodivergent adult

A common misconception about people who are neurodivergent is that they cannot or do not want to form friendships.

Counseling a broken heart

Romantic breakups often come with a lot of painful feelings and loss, but when processed in counseling, they can also be an opportunity to connect with oneself and make meaning from the experience.

Helping clients with post-date anxiety

As a counselor, I have a front-row seat for watching anxiety develop in new relationships. It is truly fascinating to observe how quickly two people can become emotionally stuck together.

Explaining why opposites attract

The continuum of self theory attempts to identify and quantify complex human relational behavior, offering possible insights into why people remain in bad relationships despite feeling lonely, frustrated and resentful.