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Relationships & Family

Relationship Challenges Therapy

Support for conflict, disconnection, trust, and communication struggles

Therapy can help you understand repeating relationship patterns and create healthier ways of connecting to yourself and others.

Individuals and couplesTherapy service
Warm relational therapy setting for relationship challenges support in San Luis Obispo
When This Can Help
  • You feel stuck in painful or repetitive relationship patterns
  • Communication often turns into conflict or shutdown
  • Past hurt is making it hard to feel close or safe
  • You want healthier connection, boundaries, and clarity
Support May Include
  • Exploring attachment patterns and relational dynamics
  • Strengthening communication and emotional awareness
  • Building more secure and intentional ways of relating
Good Match For

Individuals and couples

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

Relationship challenges can show up as conflict, distance, resentment, repeated misunderstandings, or difficulty trusting. Sometimes the work begins individually, by understanding the ways attachment, past experiences, and nervous system patterns are shaping the present.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

We help clients slow down and understand the emotional patterns underneath relationship stress. That often means strengthening communication, emotional awareness, boundaries, and insight while also addressing deeper relational wounds.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to relationship challenges therapy.

Photo of Natalie Watson, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Natalie is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Marina Canella, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Marina is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Claudia Kraake, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Claudia is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Claudia Kraake, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Becca Panarra, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Becca is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Becca Panarra, LMFT

Licensed Therapist