Therapy for Women Seeking Healthier Relationships

Somatic therapy for women who want to feel more like themselves in love, intimacy, sex, and relationships.

You can love someone and still lose yourself in the relationship.

Maybe you're the one who anticipates what your partner needs, keeps things moving, or tries to make sure everyone is okay.

You lower your expectations. Give another chance. Explain why they did what they did. Wonder if you're asking for too much. And somehow, you end up expecting more from yourself than you do from the person you're with.

Or maybe relationships bring up a version of you that you don't quite recognize. You become anxious when someone pulls away. Shut down during conflict. Struggle to say what you actually want. Stay longer than you know you should—or start questioning a perfectly good relationship because closeness itself feels scary.

Sometimes you know you're unhappy but aren't sure what you want to do about it.

Therapy isn't about me deciding what your relationship should look like. It's about helping you hear yourself more clearly inside of it.

Relationships have a way of finding our old wounds.

You can understand your attachment patterns and still feel your entire system react when someone feels distant, disappointed, angry, or unavailable.

You might:

• Overfunction while expecting very little in return

• Feel responsible for your partner's emotions

• Second-guess your needs or wonder if you're asking for too much

• Avoid conflict until resentment builds

• Become anxious, shut down, or lose yourself when connection feels threatened

• Keep finding yourself in relationships that feel painfully familiar

• Struggle to trust yourself about whether to stay, leave, ask for more, or let someone closer

These patterns aren't evidence that you're bad at relationships. Usually, they make a lot of sense when we understand what you learned about love, safety, conflict, and belonging.

And yes, we can talk about sex.

Sex doesn't exist separately from the rest of you.

Past trauma, shame, relationship dynamics, motherhood, body changes, resentment, pressure, attachment wounds, or simply years of prioritizing someone else's experience can affect desire and intimacy.

Maybe your body shuts down when you wish it wouldn't. Maybe sex feels like another thing you're supposed to do. Maybe asking for what you want feels vulnerable. Maybe you're not even sure what you want anymore.

We can talk about all of it.

Our work might include reconnecting with your body, understanding what helps you feel safe enough for intimacy, exploring desire without an agenda, and learning to trust your own yes, no, maybe, and not right now.

The goal isn't the "right" relationship.

I'm not here to convince you to leave, stay, have more sex, set a particular boundary, or become less needy.

I'm interested in helping you notice when you disappear from yourself in order to stay connected to someone else—and helping you find another way.

I draw from somatic therapy, EMDR, IFS, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and trauma-conscious yoga to work with these patterns beyond insight alone.

This is individual therapy for women, not couples therapy. Your relationship may be part of what brings you here, but you are the focus of our work.

Because healthier relationships aren't just about choosing the right person.

They're also about being able to stay connected to yourself while loving someone else.