Relationship With Self

The relationship you have with yourself shapes how you interact with others. When you treat yourself with kindness and respect, you're more likely to approach others with empathy and set healthy boundaries. However, if you're critical or lack self-esteem, it can lead to unhealthy patterns in relationships, such as people-pleasing or defensiveness. Building a positive relationship with yourself helps foster deeper, more authentic connections with others.

Relationship with Others

The relationship with self refers to how we relate to ourselves—how we perceive, treat, and care for our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It encompasses our self-esteem, self-worth, self-compassion, self-acceptance, and overall self-awareness. The quality of this internal relationship is foundational to mental and emotional well-being and plays a significant role in shaping our relationships with others.

Healing Past Wounds

Unresolved emotional pain from past experiences, such as early life adversity or unhealthy attachments, can lead to maladaptive coping behaviors that affect how you relate to yourself and others. When these wounds aren’t addressed, they can create patterns of anxiety, distrust, or difficulty with emotional connection, often leading to self-destructive behaviors or isolation. However, processing and healing from this pain, while building self-awareness around these experiences, fosters personal growth and positive change. By acknowledging and working through these past hurts, you can replace old coping mechanisms with healthier ones, improving your emotional well-being and fostering more supportive relationships.

Emotional Regulation

At a young age, many of us are taught to suppress challenging emotions to meet social expectations. However, these emotions are neither wrong nor harmful—they are natural human experiences that play an essential role in our overall well-being. Without the opportunity to express and process these emotions, we often lack the tools to navigate them in a healthy way. This can lead to unhealthy coping mechanisms, such as avoidance, self-medication, or behaviors that harm ourselves and our relationships. My specialization in emotional regulation focuses on helping individuals reframe their emotional experiences, build emotional and somatic awareness, and develop practical coping skills. Through counseling, you can learn to navigate challenging emotions with resilience, fostering a deeper connection to yourself and embracing the full spectrum of the human experience.