Navigating Dating Challenges with Strides Psychotherapy

Understanding Dating Challenges

Dating can be an exciting yet complex journey, often filled with emotional highs and lows. Whether you’re entering the dating world for the first time, navigating online dating, or recovering from past relationship experiences, challenges in dating can impact your self-confidence, emotional well-being, and outlook on relationships.

Common Dating Issues We Help With:

  • Anxiety about dating or meeting new people

  • Low self-confidence or fear of rejection

  • Difficulty setting boundaries or expressing needs

  • Patterns of unhealthy relationships or attachment issues

  • Challenges in online dating or modern dating culture

  • Processing heartbreak or relationship loss

How Dating Challenges Affect You
Dating struggles can lead to:

  • Increased feelings of self-doubt or loneliness

  • Emotional exhaustion from repeated disappointments

  • Difficulty trusting or connecting with others

  • Fear of vulnerability or intimacy

Why Choose Strides Psychotherapy?

At Strides Psychotherapy, we understand the emotional complexities of dating and relationships. Our therapists offer a supportive space to explore your dating experiences, understand patterns, and build skills to create meaningful connections. Using evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), attachment theory, and self-compassion techniques, we can help you:

  • Address fears and insecurities related to dating

  • Develop healthy communication and boundary-setting skills

  • Understand relationship patterns and attachment styles

  • Build confidence and resilience in the dating process

  • Foster self-love and clarity about your values and relationship goals

Our personalized approach ensures that you feel empowered to navigate dating with greater confidence and self-awareness.

Start Your Journey Today

Strides Psychotherapy provides online therapy sessions designed to fit your busy schedule. We accept Cigna, United Healthcare, and Aetna, and offer a sliding scale for uninsured clients.

You don’t have to navigate the challenges of dating alone. Contact us today to schedule a consultation and take the first step toward building healthier, more fulfilling connections.