Friendship Therapy
Even good friends get into fights sometimes.
It’s frustrating. Troubling. Painful.
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You really don’t want to be in a fight with your best friend, but you don’t know how to resolve it. You can’t simply give in every time there’s a disagreement. Perhaps that’s something you’ve been doing for too long already. But you’re afraid if you bring it up you’re just going to spark another round of conflict
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You want this relationship, but at this point it’s just not quite working. Something needs to change.
So now you think you may want to seek couples counseling to iron out some problems between the two of you or perhaps to see if it’s even something you want to continue with at all.
But of course, it seems awfully tough to find time for counseling during the short periods when the two of you are in the same city.
Once again, the realities of the long-distance relationship prove to be more challenging than you had hoped. Fortunately, we can help you through this difficult situation.
What do you do in friendship therapy?
Well, here’s what we won’t do:
We won’t judge you. We won’t minimize the importance of what you bring to the table. We also won’t weigh in on who’s right and who’s wrong.
Instead, we’ll provide a nonjudgmental, open forum to discuss what has happened and where the relationship is, and we’ll give you the tools you need to resolve the problems yourselves.
What good is it if a professional can fix a problem for you if you can’t then take that and do it yourself at home?
We’ll help you develop new skills, new perspectives, and new ways of handling the issues that keep coming up.
(Caution: these new understandings may help you in other relationships in your life as well, whether social, romantic, professional, familial, or other.)
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We’ll spend time helping you open up to each other about the things that are hurting you in this friendship
(and also about the things you love about this friendship).
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You’ll learn how to talk to each other in a way that promotes connectedness instead of conflict. And you’ll leave feeling closer than ever before, and confident that you can maintain and even strengthen this relationship successfully, for the long term.
Is friendship therapy right for us?
If you miss and want your friend back, friendship therapy is right for you.
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If you keep getting into painful fights and don’t know how to make a change, friendship therapy is right for you.
If you feel wronged and are seeking resolution, friendship therapy is right for you.
But the best way to answer this question is to come and find out for yourself.
Send your friend this page. Ask them if they’d be willing to give it a shot. Extend an olive branch and say, hey, maybe this is worth trying. Nobody has to admit they were wrong yet. Nobody has to eat humble pie. You just both need to want this friendship. And if that’s there, we can take this to great places.
Friendship Therapy In Action
Livia and Allie were best friends, but they hadn’t spoken in two weeks. Livia was furious at Allie for what she saw as a major betrayal. Allie was exasperated with Livia for being hypersensitive. They were at an impasse, but couldn’t imagine losing each other as friends. They weren’t sure how to get help until Google turned up friendship therapy at the Baltimore Therapy Center and they decided to give it a try.
Wendy and Donte were on-again-off-again friends. They loved spending time together, but the back and forth was wearing on both of them. They came to the Baltimore Therapy Center to work out their friendship, decide on appropriate boundaries, and make a plan to uphold them. They left with greater clarity about the future of their relationship.
Jen and Liza reached out for help shoring up their friendship, which both had long felt was imbalanced. Their therapist helped them look at their own contributions to where the relationship was and gave them actionable tools to make a lasting change in the quality of their friendship.