Therapy for Interpersonal & Relational Challenges

Compassionate, evidence-based support for teens and adults navigating relationships, dating, social confidence, and connection.

Struggling with social interactions or relationships can feel isolating and overwhelming. Whether it’s dating, friendships, family, or work connections, you may find yourself overthinking, people-pleasing, avoiding social situations, or feeling unsure how to express your needs. Attachment patterns, past experiences, or cultural expectations can make connecting with others even more challenging.

Signs You May Benefit from Therapy

  • Difficulty forming or maintaining relationships

  • Anxiety in social or dating situations

  • Overthinking interactions or fearing judgment

  • People-pleasing, conflict avoidance, or unclear boundaries

  • Struggling to express needs or emotions

  • Feeling disconnected from others or yourself

  • Physical symptoms of social anxiety (tight muscles, racing heart, stomach discomfort)

  • Cultural or family expectations making connection complicated

Recognizing these patterns doesn’t mean you’re failing—it means you’re human, and you deserve support.

Why People Seek Therapy

Clients often reach out when interpersonal challenges begin to affect:

  • Dating, romantic relationships, and forming new connections

  • Friendships, peer groups, and family dynamics

  • Communication, boundaries, and assertiveness

  • Confidence, self-expression, and social comfort

  • Identity, cultural pressures, and attachment patterns

Therapy can help you understand your relational patterns, build social confidence, and connect authentically with others.

My Approach

I provide warm, trauma-informed, culturally responsive care for teens and adults. Therapy is collaborative, tailored to your needs, and may include: therapy is a collaboration tailored to your needs, whether that includes talk therapy, art therapy, EMDR, TF-CBT, or DBT skills.

Therapy can help you stop surviving interactions and start thriving in your relationships and connections.

Virtual Therapy to Improve Relationships & Social Skills

Through HIPAA-compliant online sessions, you can receive high-quality, trauma-informed care from home, work, or school. No commuting, no waiting rooms—just accessible support wherever you are in New York or New Jersey.

Integrated Treatment Approaches

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Creative Arts Therapy

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DBT Skills

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EMDR

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TF-CBT

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Psychodynamic Psychoanalysis

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Internal Family Systems (Coming Soon!)