Therapy for setting healthy boundaries in Chicago, IL.
Helping You Stop People-Pleasing and Start Living Authentically.
Therapy for Setting Healthy Boundaries
Do you struggle with people pleasing? Do you find yourself growing resentful because you often feel taken advantage of and walked over. You have a hard time saying no. You know what you want out of friendships and relationships but you have a hard time following through. You keep lowering your expectations because you don’t want to be disappointed. Learning to set healthy boundaries can transform your relationships.
How can therapy help me learn to set better boundaries?
Healthy Boundaries Create healthy Relationships.Often poor boundaries are a learned way of relating to others. Those who were not taught how to hold space for yourself or were not “allowed” to have boundaries growing up mayi struggle with healthy boundarie as an adult. Maybe it was safer for you to shrink. Other times poor boundaries are an extension of thinking you are less important than those around us. If you do not prioritize yourself others will take advantage.
Therapy can help by:
Exploring the root cause of your difficulty setting boundaries
Examining previous relationships to identify your patterns
Learning and Identifying how to set healthy boundaries
Real time support implementing boundaries in existing relationships
Concrete skills to get a healthy start in dating and making new friends
Therapy is an act of self love. You deserve the space to work on yourself.
Together we can assess and explore your personalized attachment style. I can help you understand how your early relationships shaped the development of your attachment style and the impact on your ability to relate to others in a healthy way. Together we can explore relationships that may have a negative impact on your sense of self and ability to connect and create a roadmap towards healing.