Well Way Counseling & Evaluations works one-on-one with individuals who want help in healing from the pain of divorce or the end of other romantic, committed relationships. When a relationship ends, confusion, anger, and sadness often set in. This is especially true if the relationship was toxic. And having someone to partner with you during this lonely and confusing time can be extremely beneficial to your healing.
No matter what stage of the breakup or divorce you are in, you should not go through this transition alone. Intrusive thoughts will come frequently. You will be triggered everywhere you turn. You will question what you did wrong and what you could have done differently. You will likely be overwhelmed with anger toward your ex-partner—and even toward yourself. You may feel a sense of longing and extreme withdrawal.
Well Way Counseling & Evaluations will provide support that is meant to help you find your way out of the trauma and begin to reinvent yourself or reacquaint yourself with the old you—the side of yourself that you may feel you’ve lost.
The end of a relationship can be emotionally painful—even physically painful. The same areas in the brain that are activated when we feel heartbreak are also activated when we feel physical pain. Understanding why we think, feel, and behave the way we do after a break up is important and can actually help us to recover.
During your initial appointment, you and Althia will discuss whether or not it would be beneficial to use trauma treatment approaches, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), to help you work through your pain.
Our clients include individuals whose partners have lied to them and/or have been sexually or emotionally unfaithful to them. When you trust someone and then learn that they did something to break that trust, the emotional consequences of their behavior can be devastating. It can be traumatizing and debilitating, often making it feel impossible to even get out of bed each morning.
There is hope.
Whether you recently discovered the infidelity or you discovered it years ago, it’s not unusual to feel the emotional impact as strongly now as you did the moment you learned of the betrayal. You may have decided to leave the relationship but find that the pain of the past is still following you into current relationships or making it hard for you to even find love again. Maybe you have stayed in the relationship with the partner who hurt you but find it difficult to trust your partner again, wondering if you will ever be able to “move on” the way they want you to.
If you are seeking individual, one-on-one support to help you process the pain, recognize triggers, combat unhealthy self-talk, cope, and make sense of the present, Well Way Counseling & Evaluations has the experience and tools needed to help you get the healing you deserve.
Well Way Counseling & Evaluations specializes in treating clients with attachment challenges related to problematic bonds with caregivers. Well Way also specializes in providing support in changing unhealthy dating patterns in general. Have you begun to recognize unhealthy patterns in your dating and relationships? Does the idea of being alone feel intolerable? Yet, do you feel petrified of actual intimacy? Do you have a history of being in relationships where infidelity or domestic violence was present? Have you recognized that there’s a chance that your relationship with your parents or your prior romantic relationships have impacted how you currently approach your love life?
Painful childhood experiences like abandonment and abuse will be discussed in treatment. And your current attachment patterns and their impacts on self-esteem will be explored. It will also be important to navigate through emotions of fear, pain, anger, and emptiness that may come to the surface during treatment.
It’s not about what’s wrong with you it’s about what happened to you.
Althia will work with you to help you recognize how what happened in childhood and in your previous romantic relationships have influenced your love life. And she will help you learn to release the negative emotions and limiting beliefs that may be contributing to your current experiences with love.
Facing and then releasing these difficult emotions will help you begin to make room for a healthier relationship with yourself—and then with someone else.