– Counseling Services in Nashville TN for Relationships

Last Updated on October 7, 2014 by Chris Roberts

COUNSELING SERVICES IN NASHVILLE TN FOR RELATIONSHIPS

Two Trees Counseling Nashville provides counseling services in Nashville TN for relationships. Relationships are one of the most complicated arenas on the planet. From the time of our birth, we are inundated with information about how relationships work and what we need from them. Our parents form our initial relational bonds and we are imprinted with our relational patterns from their interactions with us. As we move through the elementary and adolescent periods of our lives, our friendships become the preeminent form of relationship we seek and attempt to master. As we move through adolescence into early and late adulthood, our primary focus turns to finding a life-long partner to share this complicated journey called life. Any and all of these forms of relationships impact us, change us, form us, and confound us. We are never finished discovering, learning, playing, and being hurt in our relationships.

By the time a person seeks out counseling services in Nashville, TN for relationships, they are usually looking for help with their life-long partner. Either a person is lost in the sea of available options and how to make a good choice in partner, or they have already chosen their life-mate and are struggling to keep the romance alive. The good news is that you are never done.   The bad news is that you are never done. In a relationship, we can’t stay the same. The more we stay the same, the more bored we become. The more bored we become, the less satisfied we are with our partner.

WHY DO WE NEED COUNSELING SERVICES IN NASHVILLE TN FOR RELATIONSHIPS?

Just like we go to school for 13-18 years to learn the vast world of academia, we must also put in this much effort with our relational education. We actually already do this! Most of the time, we just don’t realize we are already doing it! We get our education about relationships from our parents, from our friends, from church, from movies, TV shows, and books. In all of these arenas and more, there is always some element of relationship that is being explored and declared. From our parents we are taught that we are loved unconditionally (at least that is what our parents want us to learn). From our friends we are taught the skill of communication with a confidant. From our church we are taught there is something or someone out there bigger than us that wants to love us, pursue us, and transform us. From our partner we are taught we are never enough, or too much, but that if we keep learning and growing, we can experience a connection greater than anything in the world.

Counseling services in Nashville, Tn for relationships can help us work through all these old patterns and impressions upon our life. A good therapist in Nashville can help you refocus your desire for a happy, stable relationship with your partner. When we take the time to reflect on our past and get clear about what we want for the future, we can use all the gifts we have received and the harm we have suffered to understand better how to love and be loved by our partner. But this takes effort and intentionality and courage. We must be willing to see our past for what it has created in us. We need to know and understand that all of our previous relationships have formed us in a certain way, and that to move forward in a healthy way, we must be able to articulate this reality in some form. The best Nashville therapist’s are kind, compassionate, and uncompromising in their unyielding belief that you can have an amazing relationship with your dating or marriage partner. We don’t always want to look back. We want to believe that our past doesn’t haunt us and isn’t important to our future. But we learned relationships from the moment we were conceived and we need to know how that affects us in the current state.