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Breakup & Divorce Recovery and Dating Coaching
We’ve all been in that horrible place when a relationship ends and we’re left questioning if what we had was real. You may want your reaction to be logical and you may hold an expectation that you should “get over it” quickly. But breakups and divorces come with difficult thoughts and feelings including sadness, confusion, anger, fears about the future, changes in our identity and even physical pain that take time to heal. We will meet you where you are at in your breakup or divorce recovery process and provide you with supportive counseling based on your strengths while helping you gain insight and tools to better manage thoughts and emotions in order to transition faster and with less pain.
We can help you explore the process of dating and the overwhelming world of online dating. As Dating Coaches, we will help you date smarter by clarifing what you are looking for and how to find it. During this process, it is benefical to idenfity relationship patterns, communication styles, love languages as well as clarify deal-breakers and negotiables when looking for a life partner. With dating coaches, dating smarter doesn’t have to be such a negative or overwhelming experience.
Relationship Uncertainty and Couples Counseling
Psychological & Counseling Associates offers couples counseling as well as individual counseling for relationship uncertainty or difficulties. This happen when there are parts about your relationship that you love and parts that you are unsatisfied with. Do you stay or do you go? Can the issues be resolved? Relationship struggles happen for many reasons such as difficulties in communication styles, life values, religion, arguments, sexual compatibility, fear of commitment, substance use or a decision on whether to have children or not. The next step in moving past your relationship confusion, which may be causing you to feel anxious, disappointed, depressed or overwhelmed, is to help you sort through your internal conflicts that are keeping you from taking action, expressing how you feel, identifying your needs and non-negotiables and making a decision. We will take the time to learn what you are struggling with individual or as a couple in your relationship and help you work through and decide what is right for you!
Psychological & Counseling Associates also specializes in helping couples with intimacy difficulties including sexual incompatibility or differences. Additionally, our couples counselors are also certified (CADC) to work with those in a partnership who are struggling or recovering from substance use.
Happy and preparing for a life together? Want to gain support and increase positivity before marriage? We offer pre-marital counseling as well.
*LGBTQ friendly Counseling Center.
Life Transitions
Life transitions can include adjusting to or being more content with being single, being in a different phase of your life from your friends, moving to a new city, career confusion or changes, or leaving school to work. Often times these cause feelings of sadness and anxiety. Additionally, we have vegan-friendly counseling available to those who may be experiencing major or sometimes difficult and uncomfortable changes to their life choices.
We are licensed clinicians that are highly skilled at working with clients by providing therapy for depression or anxiety that accompany life transitions.
How you approach and perceive your life change will impact how you get through it and how you will feel moving forward. We will help you let go parts of the past that keep you from being happy in the present and provide you with tools to help you to feel more in control. This may include decreasing the avoidance of difficult feelings that come with uncomfortable change, increasing coping and self-awareness, and helping you examine and identify your values and strengths in order to make realistic goals and movement towards the life you want.