​​​Relationships can bring some of our deepest needs, fears, and patterns to the surface. You may have difficulty expressing what you need, setting boundaries, navigating conflict, trusting your perceptions, or knowing what you truly want. You may be questioning a relationship, struggling with dating, recovering from a breakup, or noticing patterns that seem to repeat across relationships.

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Our relationships are shaped by more than communication skills. Earlier experiences, attachment patterns, beliefs about love and responsibility, fears of rejection or loss, and ways of protecting ourselves or others can all influence how we connect.

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Understanding What Is Really Happening

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Dr. Sharone can help you step back and see the larger picture - what is happening within you, what is happening in the relationship, and what may be shaping the way you understand and respond to it.​

 

Part of the work is discerning what a concern may be telling you, what may be amplified by fear, self-doubt, or old relational patterns, and what feels most important and true when the whole picture is taken into account.

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From there, the work may involve clarifying what you need, seeing a relationship more clearly, expressing yourself more fully, setting boundaries, gathering more information before making a decision, or changing patterns that are no longer serving you.

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Dating, Breakups, & Rebuilding

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When a relationship ends, there can be pressure to understand it quickly, feel better, or move on. Often, what is needed first is space for the natural emotional process to unfold.

 

Therapy can provide room to grieve, feel what has been difficult to feel, and pay attention to what is happening not only in your thoughts but also in your emotions and what you’re noticing in your body. Rather than rushing toward a lesson or a next relationship, we can protect that time long enough for greater clarity to emerge.

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As the process unfolds, the work may also involve making sense of what happened, reconnecting with parts of yourself that may have become lost or diminished, rebuilding trust in your own perceptions and choices, and understanding what you want to carry forward.

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When the time is right, therapy can support re-entering dating with greater self-trust, awareness, and openness - not simply repeating what came before, but approaching relationships from a clearer sense of who you are and what you want.

 

Finding Your Way Back to What's True

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Dr. Sharone helps create enough space for what is true to become clearer.  At times, that means slowing down and listening more closely to your emotions and what you’re noticing in your body. At other times, she may offer a different perspective, point out a pattern, or help you see something that is difficult to recognize from inside the situation.

 

The goal is not to force a conclusion, but to help you come into a clearer relationship with yourself - what you feel, what you need, what matters to you, and what may be fear, protection, or an old story. From there, the next steps can become more grounded and more your own.

 

Over time, the work can support greater self-trust, more authentic relationships, and choices that feel increasingly aligned with who you are.​​

 

If you would like to learn more, call #415-316-8850 or fill out the contact form to schedule a 25 minute complimentary phone consultation.

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