Inclusive Relationship Therapy
Everyone Is Welcome
Clients will receive sex positive counseling and LGBTQIA/GNC/kink/poly affirming therapy.
REASONS TO SEEK RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING
Partners seek relationship therapy for many different reasons. Some of the most common concerns are communication, jealousy, infidelity, unmet emotional needs, lack of sexual desire, changes in sexual preferences, financial challenges, and differences about child rearing.
ALL RELATIONSHIPS STRUGGLE AT TIMES
Intimate relationships go through tough periods due to lack of self confidence, mistrust, unresolved anger, work stress, identity exploration, differences in sexual interests, etc.
Although partners seek relationship and couples therapy to fix their issues, sessions will not focus solely on symptoms. Relationship therapy is a time to break negative attachment patterns and highlight relationship strengths.
If you could design your relationships, what would they look and feel like?
Relationship Therapy Can Help
Sex positive and LGBTQIA affirming Relationship counseling strengthens communication and clarifies expectations; feelings of security, desire, and intimacy increase. In relationship psychotherapy, partners get support through tough conversations. Clients walk away with skills to use outside the therapy room.
You’ve been struggling with anxious thoughts about your intimate relationships. You’re noticing that your connection with your partner(s) doesn’t feel secure.
You wish you knew how to openly share relationship or sexual desires. Why is it so hard to have an honest conversation with intimate partners?
You have put a lot of resources and emotions into your personal relationships. You are tired of feeling insecure, resentful, and conflicted.
You know friends and family mean well, but they offer unsolicited advice that isn’t helpful or non-judgemental. You feel like you have to hide whole parts of your self.
In relationship therapy, you can gain emotional safety, raise relational awareness, and make empowering decisions about your relational life.
Non-judgemental therapy
“While we are looking at sexual diversity, let’s remember that we live in a multicultural society and that every culture in our world, every sub-culture, every ethnic culture, has its own ways of creating relationship, connecting in sex, and building families. All are valid and valuable. ”
How long will I/We Need Counseling?
Every person and every relationship is unique. It’s hard to predict how long you’ll be in counseling. Things that impact this include your specific goals, your commitment, willingness to face tough questions, and openness to feedback. Many clients report that shifts do happen even after a few sessions. I encourage (and I will ask) for feedback about how you feel the sessions are going and what we could do differently. If I am not the therapist with the “right voice” for a relationship situation or specific partners, let’s discuss it. I am committed to assisting you in finding the resources of relationship or couples counseling that work.
Get research-based therapy
I find that clients of the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC region are informed and appreciate a return on investment. Our work together will draw on current research into how relationships work and what makes lasting, meaningful change. Research supports the idea that “active” rather than passive counselors help to effectively facilitate change. I believe the relationships “in the room” are important and offer a chance to experience what happens in daily life. I look forward to scheduling a consultation or initial counseling session in Durham, NC.
Relationship therapy
You can feel more confident in your relationships.
Therapy provides a safe, private place to explore patterns of interaction, sexuality, erotic desire, and communication, especially as it relates to attachment style. Exploration is not just about treating symptoms. Clients find new satisfaction in dating, sexual relationships, partnerships, work groups, and family interactions.
Relationship Counseling and psychotherapy in Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham NC:
I offer sex positive, Kink aligned, poly accepting, LGBTQIA affirming relationship therapy because all relationships matter and all humans deserve to be healthy and secure. Contact me today about individual therapy or relationship counseling in my Raleigh/Durham area office (27707).
Ready to talk about how relationship counseling can transform your intimate relationships?
Contact me today. 919.308.6039
jessica@jrevelscounseling.com
Other Services Provided by Jessica Revels
Is your relationship great, but you are dealing with challenges in other areas of your life and need someone who won’t shame or judge you? In the Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill NC area, I offer depression therapy, anxiety treatment, and support for a variety of life transitions including managing chronic illness, job changes and relocation. For those in relationships, I offer mutiple partners counseling including varied relationship designs (polyamory or non monogamy), couples counseling, marriage counseling/marriage therapy, divorce recovery therapy, Co-parenting counseling, as well as premarital counseling. Ask about teletherapy for NC residents.
newly partnered
consensual non-monogamy
marriage counseling
relationships after retirement
blended families
premarital counseling
considering separation
recovering from betrayal