Relationships can be hard. Navigating our own inner stories can be difficult to begin with, and trying to merge multiple stories with multiple triggers, hot points, preferences, and ways of being can at times feel a little bit impossible.

Relational therapy can help to address underlying patterns of interaction that get us stuck and keep us from feeling secure as we connect to others, and help create new patterns that lead to a greater sense of safety and intimacy between partners.

Therapy can assists partners in navigating relationship as each person grows, changes and matures. Specific situations that may bring a relational unit to therapy include disconnection or loss of love, situations of intimate partner violence, infidelity, general partnering dissatisfaction, ruptures of trust, and difficulties adjusting to life cycle transitions like parenting, launching children, and caring for aging parents.

Sabrina works with relationships using Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), a model that is effective in uncovering the typical negative pattern of interaction between partners, identifying underlying unmet needs, and developing new and healthier patterns of connection. She works gently with partners to help them learn to hear each other with greater attunement and empathy, to repair open wounds, and restore trust. This often includes helping each person identify their own underlying negative beliefs that emerge in relationship, and she will often encourage each partner to be invested in their own personal therapy work as well.

Long term partners are not the only folks who may be interested in attending therapy together. Sometimes friends, siblings, or other platonic relationships may experience tension or disconnection, or struggle to regain equilibrium after something jostled a relationship off its axis. Wholeness is a goal for all relationships, not just romantic partnerships.

Sabrina respects the hard work involved in improving connections in relationships, and is honoured to work within an array of relational dynamics (cishet/queer/poly) to help clients build greater safety, trust, and intimacy in their relationships.

If you have questions about whether Sabrina can assist you in working towards healthier connections with others, feel free to connect with via our contact page or by phone at 431-276-6717.