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Now Offering Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Enrolling Clients for Couple Counseling and Individual Relationship Therapy.

Relationships come in all shapes and forms. People bring us joy & heartache, excitement & anxiety. Connections with other people can be the Best Part of Life. Or bring us the most pain. Or both.

We can feel alone despite having people or we can feel bad about ourselves because we don’t have the people we want, the people we need, or the people we think we should have.

Do you want more of these life-sustaining gifts of relationships:

Joy in your moments of celebration
Comfort in your moments of struggle
Loving humor
Encouragement
Recognition of your strengths
Acceptance of your humanity
Gentle feedback
Play, exploration, and fun
Respect of your time, money, resources

You can make that happen with Quality Counseling of New England’s relationship counseling. We use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in our one-on-one sessions. Our experience helping thousands of people like you will help you to reach your goals. In 2026, we’re expanding our Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), a type of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) based on Attachment Theory. In person it’s marriage counseling RI or counseling for any type of couple. Online, its couples counseling in CT, IN, MA, NY, OH, or RI. Join us.

Are any of these relationship pains dragging you down:

Fear (of them, of their rejection of you, being a bad daughter/partner/friend)
Gaslighting (manipulation)
Attacks on you
Expectations that their needs come first or that yours don’t matter
Decreased self esteem
Avoidance (of them, of others)
Conflict
Tension (or stress)
Learned hopelessness-(feeling so defeated you have given up)?

Quality Counseling of New England LLC is ready to help you flip the script with relationship counseling. Make your relationships a source of your empowerment instead of a drain on your energy and your confidence.

ANXIETY

RELATIONSHIPS

PTSD & Trauma

Self Esteem & Identity

how to handle family expectations?

What are your assumptions about what it means to be a good mother, a loving father, and a grateful child?

What it means to your neighbor might be different than what it means to you. And different still from what it means to your sister or your grandmother. Our family expectations for the obligations we have towards each other shape our views on what we should be doing and what we think we deserve in our family relationships. These expectations guide our actions and help us evaluate the way other people treat us.

If you get happy, positive feelings about how a family member treated you, maybe it was because it was in-line with how you like to be shown love.

If you get angry or sad about an interaction, could it be because someone let you down or didn’t treat you right?

Here’s how to Handle Family Expectations

Step 1: Notice your own thoughts and feelings about what you expect from your family. Observe your feelings and thoughts about the expectations of your family members and take note of both sets of family expectations.

Step 2: Discuss what you expect of yourself and others & what you think your family expects from you.

Step 3: Question if those expectations are serving you well in your current relationships. They may have worked in the past but do they now?

Quality Counseling of New England LLC is here to help you move through these steps and create more intentional relationship patterns. Direct your relationship energy towards what you value with relationship counseling at Quality Counseling of New England LLC.

“Is it me?” So often, we think, we’re the one that is doing relationships all wrong but we want you to know that: each family member has their own expectations and it is natural for conflict to arise when expectations don’t fit together perfectly.

We can help you navigate the sea of expectations to live in better harmony with your family or to let go of pressures that don’t serve you.

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Relationship Counseling

why is dating so hard? Why does it take so long? is it me?

Meeting someone new becomes a different experience if you are actively looking for a dating partner.

Whether you are seeking a long-term relationship or shorter romance: searching, meeting, and maintaining connection can be challenging. Want some help? Quality Counseling of New England LLC is here for it. We’ve got the dating guidance you need.

You need hope to keep putting yourself out there, hope that your investment of your time and energy will be worthwhile. Dating requires hope that there are people you are compatible with and that you have something to offer them. Feeling like you aren’t getting anywhere can lead you to feel hopeless about the situation and to doubt yourself.

Overcoming hopelessness & worthlessness

If your answer to “Why can’t I find someone?” is worry that you might be worthless, hold on before you go with that assumption. Every person has worth and is unique. Remember that means you. Our expert therapists, April Lau, LMHC and Nadia McGovern, LMHC, can help you discover what makes you uniqure. And they can help you change things up so that you can tap into the joy of meeting new people.

We offer relationship counseling in all six of our practice states.

If you are looking for Providence therapists, April is available in person or online and Nadia is available online. Our Providence therapists guide Brown, RISD, JWU, and high school students as they explore dating. They work with adults at any age feeling stuck and unsatisfied in the search for meaningful relationships they want.

NOW SIGNING UP NEW INDIVIDUAL AND couples therapy CLIENTS

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