Counseling for Improving
Boundaries & Communication
You like to keep the peace. You’ve become an expert at dodging hard conversations and adjusting your needs to meet the needs of others.
The truth is, there are benefits to people knowing how likable, kind and helpful you are. You are the go-to person who naturally senses what people need and has the willingness and ability to help.
Here’s the problem: just because everyone else’s needs are met, doesn’t mean that yours are.
You want to find ways to establish healthy boundaries and communicate your needs without seeming like the bad guy. It feels like your inability to put down boundaries allows people to walk all over you and it’s getting pretty old.
I get it.
There are ways to communicate your needs and place boundaries that not only help get your needs met, but allow people to respect you. To see you as the strong, independent person you want to be. There are ways to be kind and considerate, without getting walked on.
I can help you navigate this balance.
Imagine:
Being able to communicate your needs clearly and consistently.
Being treated with respect because people know that you respect yourself and the boundaries you create.
Naturally attracting people who like and empower you.
Not shrinking to the big personalities around you, but confidently interacting among them.
I Can Help You:
Put down boundaries and practice effective communication that will not only help you; it will help others in your life to take responsibility for themselves.
Increase your confidence
Notice warning signs in relationships and address them early
Be in control of your decisions and your time
Find clarity and meaning
How It Works
First, will we talk through what you are experiencing so I can understand how you are thinking and feeling. Then we explore your current and past relationships so we understand your communication patterns and how they were formed. Quite often, we repeat what we were taught and continue those patterns unintentionally.
Next, we create goals to clarify what you want to change and take steps, at your pace, toward achieving them. We identify warning signs in relationships. You’ll practice new skills learned and start to see changes in yourself, and the way others communicate and interact with you. This is an empowering experience that moves us to explore what really matters to you.
Identifying what you value gives you a foundation for what you are willing to compromise on. This also helps to identify what ideals you need to hold to, even if people try to convince you otherwise. To help with that, we identify words and phrases to use so you can stick to those values without seeming like the bad guy.
Practicing these skills in and out of our weekly sessions helps you to build confidence and take ownership of your time, feelings and values. We recognize and validate these strengths helping you to embrace and use them to your advantage.
You can become the confident, independent, and empowered person that you want to be.
To get started, we will work together by meeting weekly. When you start seeing changes, our weekly sessions turn into bi-weekly sessions where we celebrate your progress and talk through hurtles that come up and implement a plan to address them.
As your confidence rises and your relationships improve, our sessions reduce to once per month maintenance check-in's, so you can continue to gain support and empowerment until you're like, "Peace out, Suzie. I've got this!".
How We Meet
My Office
My office is located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, close to Jupiter, Palm Beach Island, Palm Beach Shores, Singer Island and North Palm Beach.
Online Therapy
Online therapy is located in the comfort of your home from anywhere in Florida.
Therapy in Nature
Incorporating nature as a therapeutic tool into our sessions adds an extra layer of depth, meaning and fun to the process.
