Thrive in Relationships
Uncover Your Best Self
Teletherapy for Individuals and Couples+ in Minnesota
Get out from under the
overwhelm.
Overwhelm takes over your environment and your internal world like a windstorm.
Going through the motions of day-to-day life, you find yourself maintaining obligatory connections while short-changing your primary relationships.
You keep on telling people, “Everything is ok.”
Even when you know it’s not ok.
Sometimes these feelings are relentless – like a vine of angst – threatening to strangle basic progress.
The result is an entangled and exhausted mess, like an untended garden, where goodness and beauty lie hidden beneath the fray of overgrowth.
That early garden still exists. With careful untangling and care, it can be home to a more peaceful gathering of healthy greenery and new blossoms that provide stability and increased joy.
Expectations are high for relationships today…
“We expect our partners to be loyal, respectable, mature, and responsible and at the same time provide mystery, seduction, a wild side, and inspiration.
It’s no wonder betrayal is more common than ever – we have social media, work environments where people travel together, and life in general moves faster than ever before.” – Esther Perel, psychotherapist and author
It’s an enormously tall order to believe we can do it all. In some ways, you may feel more afraid in your relationship than when you were single.
Hi, I’m
Comfort.
Clinical Social Worker / Therapist
MSW, LICSW
(she, her)
(612) 217-0797
Comfort is a family name – a middle name, and I have always gone by it. Hopefully, if we get a chance to meet, you will feel at home in my office and relaxed in my presence.
When we have a safe place to be our most authentic selves, that’s when real growth can happen.
It’s just us. It’s our work together – I am more of a guide really. Sure, I’ve studied a lot, but also I care a lot and have come to this work with joy, awareness, and dedication for many years.
Rediscover your best self.
Together, we can help you re-group, find your closer-to-center self, and move forward in your life to a place with fewer storms.
It actually makes perfect sense that you have arrived in the life circumstances that you have. We can talk more about that and make sense of why.
Often, we don’t know what to do first or next to address the unending list of extremely important items that need prompt attention.
You are here, exploring the courageous idea of getting help.
First, I will help you exhale.
When we sit together with your concerns – perhaps some worry or maybe some fear – you are no longer alone and will not be judged. We look at the big picture of how you got to today, and we look at the smaller picture, too, about life’s daily challenges.
Therapy can feel like hard work, but the benefits can be life-changing and lasting. I encourage most people to give it a try.
Often, the experience of healing
begins with the first visit.
Part of what I do as the therapist is listen carefully to your story and try to really understand your perspective. We work together to unpack difficulty and understand your situation in the here and now, without judgment.
We help you grow in areas of self-reflection and self-understanding. From a place of knowing yourself more fully, you bring more authenticity to your relationships with family, friends, and colleagues. This process can lead to increased self-esteem and confidence, and reduced symptoms such as anxiety and depression.
We begin the work of understanding your particular, unique situation and how to start sorting out the issues.
Offer your best self in relationships.
Increasing one’s own self-awareness and understanding behaviors as a reflection of life-long patterns help an individual to bring a more authentic version of him, her, or their selves to the relationship. You will learn to set clearer boundaries and more effectively communicate your needs.
Love can endure a lot; but if we want relationships to thrive and grow, we need to work on them in excellent therapy with an experienced therapist.
I can be that person to listen, reflect, inquire, and create a safe place to have these hard conversations.
See one another with new eyes.
Your relationship can shift to a better place and once again become home to delight, security, and adventure.
Couples can grow stronger – even after a betrayal – if they’re willing to walk through the difficult therapy process to find what’s waiting on the other side.
Hope, devotion, camaraderie, and laughter can make their way back into your home.
“If not now, when?” – Hillel the Elder
Therapy is hard work. Sometimes we cry, sometimes we laugh, but we always stay curious together.
We work together. You may experience increased self-esteem, because you may know and understand yourself in new, important ways. Sometimes people say that as a result of good therapy, he/she/they move through the world with greater confidence, deepening relationships with loved ones, friends, and colleagues.
Our work will help you cultivate an understanding of how you arrived in your current situation and give you the power to change the course of your life.
