Relationship Counseling NYC: How Therapy Can Help You Hold On To Love When You Find It

Relationship drama. Serial break-ups. Divorce.

Been there, done that? Longing for change? Millions of singles feel your emotional pain. 

Fortunately, there is a path to relief and relationship success. If you are ready to start breaking unhelpful partnership patterns, don’t take that journey alone. In fact, consider a specific type of relationship next…a healing, restorative one. 

Relationship counseling can be your springboard toward the life and connections you want. 

Why Reach Out for Relationship Counseling?

In short, because you need it. Not because there’s something wrong with you. You have a problem you want to fix and there are people to call on. 

For those who struggle with people and relationships, it can seem counterintuitive to ask a person for help. Sadly, far too many people resist relationship counseling, enduring loneliness and heartbreak when a professional can offer practical support, promote clarity, and help address relationship issues.

Are you avoiding therapy? Why?

Some people feel intimidated by counseling in any form. Some see therapy as a last resort or a desperate measure. Others mistake relationship counseling for couples counseling and assume they must already be in a relationship to merit help.

The truth is, even if you’re struggling terribly with relationships (of any kind), you still deserve to feel better and live better. There is absolutely no reason to go on feeling lost, lonely, confused, or unworthy of belonging. You are hardwired for meaningful connection. A compassionate, qualified therapist can be a trustworthy listener, observer, and guide. It’s that simple. No shame or judgment is involved.

How Relationship Counseling Can Help You Maintain The Connections You Want to Keep

Essentially, the work you do with your counselor helps you review your relationship habits. It can prepare you to meet new people. It can also afford you tools to repair relationship rifts and head off thoughts and behavior that derail your connections.

Relationship Counseling Helps Identify Problematic Thoughts & Feelings

Before you get to relationship solutions, your counselor makes it safe to ask questions. Together, you may work through the following and more:

• what happens when you feel vulnerable?
• what holds you back? What makes you feel comfortable?
• what is your main worry when you think about your relationships thus far? Why are they unsatisfying?

Healthy relationships are more possible when you can view relationship counseling as an intentional tool. One used for getting at those underlying causes of self-doubt, insecurity, and anxiety.

How You Protect Yourself is Examined in Relationship Counseling 

Many rough spots and relationship rifts happen because one or both partners operate in “self-protect” mode. Intimacy and closeness never really break through when guards are always up. Relationship counseling can help you open up in a safe place with a plan for healing in place.

You may have trouble sustaining or initiating a relationship due to troubling past experiences or beliefs resulting in negativity or reactivity. You recognize it and want to change it. 

You just need help resolving the pain and learning new habits.

Your therapist can offer you tools, methods, and a reliable professional relationship in which you can safely start processing emotional pain. Learning to recognize and heal your negative behavior patterns supports you in feeling less stuck and wounded by relationship failures. 

Instead of continuing a cycle of anxiety, misunderstanding, manipulation, or sabotage, you can finally deal with the automatic memories or physical and emotional responses that keep you from reaching out. You can start living and relating based on your strengths and values. You can let your guard down and let people in.

Relationship Counseling NYC: Why Wait? Reach Out to a Therapist Soon

Therapy can help you create healthier, more satisfying relationships and a much happier life. It’s well worth the effort. Heal the perceptions of yourself and the relationships that keep you from the life you want.

All told, therapy makes space for inner work and cooperation. That’s where good relationships begin. Your work with a counselor can foster a positive cycle of self-acceptance and willing vulnerability that won’t require you to work so hard at finding love and connection. You’ll attract it. 

The Relationship Suite

With support, you can give yourself and others the appropriate amount of time and attention. Take time to discover what you need in your relationship with yourself and others.

To learn more about how to have healthy connections, please  Contact Us at The Relationship Suite. We’re a group of skilled therapists specializing in relationship counseling. We provide individual and couples therapy. To find out more about Relationship Counseling NYC CLICK HERE.

Since Covid, we have been working with couples via Online Counseling in New York, and New York City including Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Westchester, Long Island, South Hampton, East Hampton, and Montauk. To schedule a complimentary consultation, click HERE.

We also provide Virtual Counseling in New Jersey, Hoboken, Jersey City, Princeton, Chatham, Morris, Westfield, Union, Bergen County, Colts Neck, and Tenafly. Schedule a complimentary consultation by clicking HERE 

Contact Us HERE for a complimentary consultation.