Why Do I Feel Guilty Setting Boundaries With My Parents?
Why do you feel guilty setting boundaries with your parents? Explore how family expectations, people-pleasing and childhood experiences can make it difficult to say no, and how psychotherapy can help you develop healthier boundaries and greater emotional independence. Sara offers individual therapy online and in person in London.
In-Laws and Family Boundaries: How to Protect Your Relationship
Difficult relationships with in-laws can create tension, resentment and conflict within a couple. Explore how to set healthy family boundaries, communicate more effectively and protect your relationship, with support from Sara, a couples and individual therapist offering therapy in London and online.
Difficult Relationships With Parents: Understanding the Impact on Adult Life
Do you feel guilty, anxious or emotionally drained after spending time with your parents? Explore why family relationships can remain difficult in adulthood and how psychotherapy can help you find a way forward.
Family issues - enmeshment trauma: family won't respect my boundaries
Enmeshment trauma (also seen as over-intimacy or excessive closeness) is a type of emotional trauma that is caused by a lack of clear and healthy boundaries in the family environment and dynamics. Over-intimacy/enmeshment can happen when boundaries (typically between a parent and child) are blurred, overly diffused or even nonexistent. This leads to the child being emotionally fused with the parent's needs, wants, feelings or identity.
Family issues: Enmeshment + Loss of boundaries
When we are experiencing challenges with boundaries in our family units, we can start to think about the phenomenon 'Enmeshment trauma'.