Interpersonal

The way we relate to others can impact your career, your family life, your circle of friends and the general trend of your life. Relationships are powerful enough to even impact your mood on a day-to-day basis and can be a huge contributing factor in both success and in hardship. Interpersonal therapy is a type of therapy that addresses your relationships with other people. Together with your therapist, you’ll look at how you form relationships, what you expect from relationships and how your emotions and reactions impact those relationships. Through Interpersonal therapy sessions, you can learn the skills needed to build and maintain healthy relationships and use them to foster your version of success in life.

Benefits of Interpersonal Therapy

• Improved relationships
• Improved opportunities at work
• Improved communication skills
• Better life outlook
• Reduced stress

What happens in an Interpersonal Therapy session?

Conversation with a therapist in an interpersonal therapy session generally starts with a look at current problems in current relationships. You and your therapist start with what is going on now versus things that happened years ago and focus on immediate interventions for ongoing issues.

Talking about the past is also important in interpersonal therapy sessions because it allows you and your therapist to understand where your patterns originate. Through sessions you’ll discover the things that are holding you back from the relationships you want in life. Together, you’ll discover solutions to those blocks, like learning new communication skills or how to set boundaries.

Why is it important to have positive interpersonal relations?

Developing positive relationships with other people is the foundation of building a successful, peaceful and happy life. At work, strong interpersonal relationship skills can help you secure the position you want and build the career of your dreams. In friendship, strong interpersonal skills help you build a foundation of people who support you and uplift you toward your best life. In partnerships and family life, strong interpersonal skills help maintain peace, keep romance alive and allow you to understand your partner’s needs.

Talking with a therapist in an interpersonal therapy session helps you hone in on how to better relate to others in every aspect of your life. Through bettering your relationship skills, you can create positive patterns in your life and generate forward momentum toward your goals.

How can a therapist help me relate to other people better?

Talking with a therapist in an interpersonal therapy session allows you an objective perspective on how you relate to other people. Through interpersonal therapy sessions, you’ll analyze techniques that are not serving you and learn how to replace them with techniques that do foster trust, loyalty and positivity in relationships.

Through interpersonal therapy sessions, you can learn how to cope with unexpected or disappointing things that come up in a way that brings people closer to you instead of pushing them away. You can learn how to communicate critical information in a way that is constructive and create a peaceful, safe space for others in your presence.

Interpersonal therapy sessions are usually individual sessions in which you meet alone with your therapist. Together, you talk through conflict or awkwardness in relationships and learn how to create better, more peaceful and more symbiotic relationships with others. Occasionally, other people in your life are invited to join in your interpersonal therapy sessions to provide perspective and insight into long-held patterns