Do you ever wish for a closer relationship with one or both your parents?

Did you ever feel lonely growing up in your own house?

Does it ever feel like you're mourning, but over the relationship with someone who is very much alive still?

Now that you’re an adult, you may find yourself feeling triggered being around your parent(s), or even the idea of having to be around them at upcoming events.

There is so much grief around strained relationships with a parent who struggles to provide unconditional love. There is a deep mourning you are likely experiencing after repeatedly setting your own needs aside and still being disappointed.

Even if your parents were well intentioned, two things can be true at the same time - parents can be doing their best within their own capacity at the time AND you may still have had unmet needs to feel secure and safe.

In therapy, we navigate so many of these situations and how to move forward, either with or without that parent in their lives. Sometimes parents are able to walk alongside their adult children and heal together, while others may have been too abusive or neglectful, or simply unwilling or incapable, to repair those wounds. In therapy, we process how these life experiences and relationships have affected your self worth, your identity, your current relationships, your emotional regulation, as well as learning how to effectively communicate, establish boundaries, and articulate how you truly feel and what you truly want to say.