Stuck in Situationships or Anxious-Avoidant Relationship Patterns
Situationships and emotionally inconsistent relationships can feel confusing, exhausting, and hard to leave — even when you know they’re not working. Many people stay stuck in these dynamics not because they want to, but because familiar patterns feel safer than uncertainty. Therapy can help you understand why these relationships pull you in and how to stop repeating them.
Therapy for Situationships and Emotional Inconsistency
Situationships often involve mixed signals, unclear commitment, and emotional highs followed by distance or withdrawal. Over time, this creates anxiety, self-doubt, and constant second-guessing. Many clients come in feeling stuck between wanting closeness and fearing loss, even when the relationship feels draining. Therapy focuses on understanding why these dynamics feel familiar and how attachment wounds keep the cycle going.
Anxious-Avoidant Relationship Patterns
Anxious-avoidant relationships are marked by cycles of pursuit and withdrawal. One partner seeks reassurance while the other pulls away, shuts down, or becomes emotionally unavailable. These patterns often stem from early attachment experiences and unresolved relational trauma. Without intervention, the cycle repeats across dating and long-term relationships. Therapy helps slow this pattern down and build emotional safety, clarity, and self-trust.
Trauma-Informed, EMDR Therapy
Relationship patterns don’t come from nowhere. Many are rooted in attachment trauma, past relationships, or early emotional experiences. As an EMDR-trained therapist, I work through a trauma-informed lens to help clients process relational wounds that keep pulling them into the same dynamics. This work supports deeper change, not just insight.