Therapy Santa Cruz
Help, Hope and Healing for hurting couples and anxious adults.
You long to feel more at home with yourself and your partner,
but trying harder isn’t helping.
In fact, the harder you try, the worse things seem to get. You feel you can handle just about everything in your life except what’s happening inside you, and the more you strive to make sense of the anxiety, push through the exhaustion or get back to feeling like yourself, the more overwhelmed you become.
Or in your marriage, you and your spouse keep repeating the same painful arguments. You try to explain, to make yourself understood, to find a way back to the loving connection you once shared, but somehow the harder you try to resolve things, the further apart you become.
You find yourself running on empty, exhausted from trying so hard and achieving the opposite result. You wonder how much longer you can go on like this.
You’re stuck because trying harder isn’t the answer.
No amount of trying harder is enough to override internal experiences that we’ve learned to ignore, push past or manage.
I’m Laura Kurek, and I offer therapy in Santa Cruz for anxious adults and couples in conflict who are tired of being at war with themselves or their partners to discover the groundedness and connection that they know is possible but feels so elusive.
For 17 years I have helped adults and couples to learn new ways of dealing with these stuck places within themselves and their relationships. I do this through trauma-informed techniques that help to heal stuck pain points, freeing people from trying harder to push past, control, or fix painful emotions. Over and over again, I have seen couples reconnect and adults stop being ruled by their anxiety as a result of this work.