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Sometimes we find ourselves in relationships that hurt us or just aren’t right for us, but we still have a hard time leaving.
A bad relationship can feel like we’re trapped in a soul-sucking prison, or experiencing a chaotic addiction with euphoric highs and painful lows.
Sound familiar?
If you can relate, then it’s time to find a therapist that can help you on your path to freedom.
We’re aware that trying to find the right partner can be a painful task, and even more so now with the craziness of dating apps and social media!
When we can’t seem to find a match, or when we move from one failed relationship to the next, we may begin to question if something is wrong with us.
Our warm and experienced therapists are relationship and codependency experts who specialize in helping you identify and overcome subconscious “walls” that are getting in the way of finding a healthy relationship.
As we bring awareness to those walls and begin to heal them, you will start to approach yourself and your relationships in a whole new way.
We’re so confident in our extraordinary therapists that we guarantee you’ll love your match – or your money back.
At My LA Therapy, our highly-vetted Anxiety experts are selected not only for their clinical acumen but for who they are.
Like everything, codependency and unhealthy relationships lie on a spectrum. We all have some codependent traits, but when these traits begin to overtake your relationships, it’s time to seek help.
Codependency can develop when people become overly reliant on others to fulfill their emotional needs. If one person is codependent, the relationship can start to feel very one-sided and can be extremely damaging if you don’t take the steps to free yourself from it.
There are some visible symptoms of codependent relationships that you should look out for. If any of these apply to you, it might be time to consider speaking with a therapist.
-You want to please people all the time.
-Saying “no” is really hard for you, and you sacrifice your time or mental wellbeing each time in order to satisfy your partner’s needs.
-You have low self-esteem. You don’t feel as if you are worth it, or enough.
-You might even feel as if no one can love you.
-You have weak boundaries. You might be willing to do anything for anyone, or have trouble with stopping.
-Some codependent people can have rigid boundaries, blocking everyone off from getting too close to them, while others can switch whether they have rigid or weak boundaries.
-You may feel reactive during conflict.
-You might feel “threatened by disagreements,” or you may believe someone else’s opinion right away without checking in with yourself and your sense about the situation at hand.
-You have trouble communicating your thoughts and feelings to your partner, because you don’t want to upset on inconvenience anyone.
-You can become obsessed with any mistakes you have made, or with other peoples’ relationships.
-You need other people to like you to feel okay about yourself.
-You have difficulties with intimacy.
-You go from relationship to relationship and have a hard time being alone.
-You have intense, short-lived relationships or long, on-again, off-again relationships that are filled with a lot of drama and ups and downs
-You might deal with any negative emotions that can take a toll on you, such as stress, anxiety, hopelessness, or anger.
-Therapy can help you overcome self-esteem issues, insecurity, and codependency by identifying and removing subconscious walls that create power struggles in relationships and get in the way of potential partners seeing who you really are.
-Therapy can help you become aware of ways in which you may inadvertently or unconsciously play a role in your unhealthy relationship dynamics can help you .
-Therapy can change the unhealthy patterns in your relationships and begin to relate to your partners in a new, healthy way.
-Therapy can help you trace the roots of your attraction to partners who may not be able to meet your needs.
-Therapy can help you begin to heal the underlying issues that get in the way of having close, stable relationships with people who love and respect you.
-Therapy can help you become more resilient, confident, and independent so that you are entering into a partnership out of love rather than out of neediness or fear of being alone.
-Therapy can help you begin to move through your relationships and dating life with greater ease.
-Therapy can help you become more open to others and this often translates into others being more drawn to you as a result.
-Therapy can help you find joy, purpose, and meaning even in being alone.
-Therapy can help you become more aware of red flags in others and learn to listen to yourself so that you don’t continue repeating the same painful, patterns in relationships.
Exploring codependency and unhealthy relationships in therapy can help us trace and understand the origins of our painful patterns and bring them under our conscious control so that we can experience true intimacy, love, and acceptance with the right people.
At My LA Therapy, we specialize in helping people interrupt unhealthy patterns by understanding the underlying and unconscious forces beneath them.
As we bring these unconscious forces into the light of awareness we can you decrease anxiety, develop greater resilience, and experience greater confidence, resilience, and self-sufficiency.
Our team of codependency and relationship experts will help you identify and change underlying thought and behavioral patterns that contribute to your codependence and unhealthy relationship struggles, providing you with strategies to self-regulate and decrease your distress while restoring an overall sense of peace.
To experience true and lasting joy in our life, we must face and conquer our pain by healing our underlying trauma and confronting our fears.
Our research-based therapy interventions are scientifically proven therapy to be effective in improving relationships and other issues surrounding codependency such as anxiety, communication, unconscious trauma, and self-limiting core beliefs.
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I am blown away! I don’t write testimonials, unless I have been extremely moved by something. I was blessed to work with Brooke on a single session, and before this I was in therapy on and off with multiple therapists for the last 20 years of my life. Brooke was able to do more in one session than many years of work with my previous therapist. She has the true gift of great insight and compassion while also getting straight to the heart of your blind spots and unconscious issues in a way that has truly changed my life.
Skyler J.
There are people who are good at their work there are people like Brooke: who are born to do it. I cannot recommend Brooke more highly. I can only imagine where I would be today if I had started working with her years ago. From the beginning of our session, she knew exactly what tools and questions that would work for my particular psychology and my personal experience. No other therapist has been able to do that or anything close.
What I also really appreciate from our session is Brooke's ability to go directly to the source of the issue while also keeping a very gentle and kind energy with me. I felt very seen, understood, and supported. Everything and more that I could have ever asked for from a therapist. I have a severe trauma history and complex issues she was able to immediately identify and help. If she could help me, I know she can help you too.
Taylor E.
You did more in 45 minutes than my last therapist did in a year.
Jamie
With your help, I've finally started to understand that while my vivid imagination often wants to create terrifying monsters under the bed, in a lot of cases those monsters are nothing more than a heap of decidedly less-terrifying laundry I've avoided for too long that just needs to be aired out and put away. Which is definitely a lot easier than monster slaying. Thank you for shedding light in the dark places I was too afraid to face alone.
Morgan B.
I am extremely fortunate to work with Sydney, who is helping me create real internal change. The talent to listen well is Hall of Fame stuff, and she has that. She then follows with questions, strategies that are organic to the moment. I have come to believe that deep, radical, if occasionally deeply painful change ... and, then, healing can happen. I'm just at the lip of that last part - but would not have gotten there, AT ALL, without Sydney
Ric K.
The best therapist ever! Life-changing 🙂
Catherine H.
Right now, the work is changing my life, sometimes in inches, sometimes in miles.
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