Individual Therapy in Reno for Creating Healthy Relationships

Difficulty creating or maintaining healthy relationships is one of the most common reasons individuals seek the help of a therapist. At Emotional & Relationship Health Counseling Associates, our therapists have the training to help you foster healthy connections. Our relationship counseling for individuals in Reno offers a safe and supportive space to navigate challenges and grow in a way that helps you feel more confident and hopeful about relationship.

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Overcoming Loneliness:

Gain support and strategies to combat feelings of loneliness and isolation.

Emotional Relief

Address the emotional exhaustion that relationships can sometimes cause, finding ways to rejuvenate.

Building Trust

Learn how to trust again after past experiences have made you wary.

Healing from Trauma

Address past traumas that are impacting your current relationships.

Healthy Relationship Skills

Learn strategies for building and maintaining healthy relationships.

Conflict Resolution

Develop strategies for managing conflicts and fostering healthy compromises.

Individual Therapy in Reno: A Path to Healthy Relationships

Individual therapy isn't just for solving personal problems; it's also a powerful tool for building healthier relationships. Through therapy, you can embark on a journey of self-discovery that will positively impact how you interact with those closest to you. This process helps resolve personal conflicts and deepens your understanding of your relationship dynamics, making your connections stronger and more resilient.

Overcoming Resistance to Joint Therapy

It’s common to feel hesitant about attending therapy with your partner. Whether it’s denial, embarrassment, or a deeper issue like distrust in therapy, these feelings are valid. Individual therapy can help you address these barriers, making it easier to consider joint therapy in the future. This can lead to better communication and deeper emotional bonds, which are essential for healthy relationships.

Finding New Ways to Connect

Feeling hopeless about relationship issues is normal, but individual therapy offers new solutions. It empowers you to explore different ways to engage with your partner and work through conflicts. This approach fosters a sense of agency and encourages personal and relational growth, which are vital for nurturing healthy relationships.

Enhancing Self-Awareness for Better Relationships

Individual therapy isn’t just about you; it’s about how you relate to others. Improving your self-awareness and emotional health can profoundly impact your relationships. It promotes healthier dynamics and a deeper understanding between you and your partner, which are key to healthy relationships.

Building Communication Skills

Good communication is the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. In individual therapy, you can develop skills to express yourself clearly and listen attentively. These skills can transform your relationship dynamics, helping you and your partner overcome misunderstandings and build stronger, more understanding connections.

Turning Conflict into Growth

Conflicts are a natural part of any relationship, but they can also be opportunities for growth. Individual therapy teaches you how to handle conflicts constructively, turning potential arguments into moments of deeper understanding and intimacy. This is essential for maintaining healthy relationships.

The Link Between Personal Happiness and Healthy Relationships

Your emotional well-being is closely tied to the health of your relationships. Therapy helps you find personal happiness, which, in turn, enhances your relationship dynamics. This shows how intertwined personal well-being and healthy relationships are.

Parenting with Emotional Intelligence

Therapy also supports parents in developing emotional awareness and presence. By meeting both the physical and emotional needs of your children, you create a nurturing and secure family environment, which is fundamental for healthy relationships.

Sharing Therapeutic Insights

The insights and skills you gain in individual therapy can benefit your relationships. Therapists encourage you to use your progress to enhance mutual understanding and connection with your partner, promoting a culture of growth and emotional intimacy.

Inspiring Change in Relationships

Seeing the positive changes in yourself through therapy can inspire your partner to consider therapy as well. This can lead to a domino effect, where both partners engage in therapy, potentially leading to joint sessions and shared growth. This process fosters healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

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Individual Relationship Counseling in Reno, NV

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Cornelius Sheehan, LCSW

Director and Therapist

Counseling with Reno Therapist Cornelius Sheehan, LCSW

About me as a therapist:

For more than 20 years, I have worked with couples and individuals. I understand how important it is to have a secure, connected, and hopeful relationship. I specialize in attachment-based, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for marriages, couples, families, and individuals in Reno. I am certified as an Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervisor.

I use primarily EFT in my work with couples, individuals, and families. I appreciate its effectiveness, research-based approach, and strong theoretical foundation. A few years ago, I started Emotional and Relationship Health Counseling Associates in Reno, NV.

I have had the privilege of helping hundreds of couples and families repair ruptures and connect again. I have helped many people become more self-aware and accepting. I support them in dealing with depression, anxiety, and relationship problems.

Attachment theory’s empathy, curiosity, and non-judgmental stance align with my natural style. Although I bring expertise in therapy, you are the expert on your life and goals. Thus, I commit to approaching our work together with humility and curiosity.

One of my proudest achievements is starting a counseling program for inmates at the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office in 20014. We developed a novel and highly successful program to help reduce recidivism, especially for “failure to comply” violations. The program was funded by inmate purchases. I actively participated in these programs until 2011, when I dedicated myself full-time to private practice.

About me as a person:

always remember being profoundly curious about people and relationships. We are all so complex, with so much happening beneath the surface.

I find this complexity fascinating. I feel lucky that my interest has guided me to a profession I love. Moreover, it motivates me to stay current with changes in the field.

My wife Tammy and I live with our three rescue dogs. We have three adult children. Born in San Francisco, I have lived briefly in a few different places, but Reno has always remained home base.

For years, I’ve had “boots on the ground” involvement with many facets of the mental health care needs of our community. This has provided me a rounded perspective about the particular relationship counseling needs of people in our local community.

Learn more about therapy in Reno with Cornelius

You can inquire about counseling in Reno with Cornelius Sheehan, LCSW and our team of highly-trained EFT therapists here. Call us at 775-235-2205 and we’ll be happy to discuss how we can help. Sessions with Cornelius range from $185 to $210 for 55-min and $275 for 90-minutes. Two-day weekend intensive sessions are available (call for details).

Cornelius Sheehan, LCSW

Cornelius is invested in Reno and Nevada:

Since 1974, I have resided in Reno, deeply committed to this community. I attended Reno High School and UNR. I actively participate in various advisory roles for Reno and the State of Nevada.

Additionally, I founded Relationship Health Counseling Associates to enhance services for clients in this area and provide highest quality professional development for therapist interns in Reno.

Cornelius specializes in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT for couples, individuals and families). He supervisors clinical interns and candidates for EFT Certification. He is the Founder / Director of rceft.org, the Reno/Tahoe Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy. You can learn more about EFT at rceft.org and iceeft.com. ICEEFT is the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Nevada License Number: 5605-C

Cornelius works with clients aged 13-years and older, and children in the context of family therapy.

Cornelius’s Specialties and Expertise

Top Specialties

Relationship Issues
Anxiety
Depression

Expertise

Bisexual
Cancer
Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist
Divorce
Family Conflict
Grief
Infidelity
Internet Addiction
Lesbian
Marital and Premarital
Men’s Issues
Mood Disorders
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Self Esteem
Veterans

Helen Going, LCSW

Meet Helen, Relationship Therapist in Reno

Hi, I’m Helen Going, LCSW, therapist in Reno. I am a licensed clinical social worker with advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy. I received a Master of Social Work at UNR. I completed my clinical internship locally. Subsequently, I have worked with a wide variety of clients in a variety of settings in Northern Nevada. As a lifelong learner, I continually grow the skills I bring to my counseling practice. I have extensive lived-experience. So, I have a deep appreciation for the distress that emotional and relationship difficulties can cause. I am dedicated to helping.

Why I Do Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

For me, there is nothing more wonderful than seeing a couple see each other in a brand-new way, with them each understanding the struggles of the other in a way that is manageable and creative. I love empowering people to connect joyfully and effectively with themselves and their loved ones.

Emotionally Focused Therapy, EFT, has been an ideal fit for me. I have had training in several different treatment modalities, but EFT is the model that has become the foundation of my work. It fits what drove me to this work. Additionally, it’s totally in line with my goal of providing a completely safe space for clients to experience themselves and their loved ones in new and different ways. EFT couple and individual therapy works. It is gentle. This way of working does not assign blame or pathology to partners but rather gets to the root of the disconnections within relationships. The attachment framework of EFT allows people move far beyond the set of “tips and tricks” that are not good therapy. Instead of saying the right things at the right time, etc., the work I do equips clients to identify and reframe the destructive patterns that underlie their relationship problems.

Why I Do Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy

As an EFT therapist in Reno, I work with individuals as well as couples. While EFT is renowned for its effectiveness in couples therapy, its principles of emotional awareness, expression, and connection are equally transformative for individuals navigating personal challenges.

I’m drawn to individual work because it allows me to delve into the unique experiences and emotional landscapes of each person. Whether someone is grappling with relationship issues, past traumas, anxiety, or depression, EFT provides a framework for understanding the root of these struggles and fostering healing.

In individual therapy, I help clients identify and express their emotions in a safe and supportive space. We explore the underlying needs and attachment patterns that may be contributing to their difficulties. By developing a deeper understanding of themselves and their emotional needs, individuals can begin to make more empowered choices in their relationships and life in general.

I’m passionate about empowering individuals to build healthier, more fulfilling relationships with themselves and others. Whether you’re currently in a relationship or not, individual EFT therapy can provide valuable tools for personal growth, emotional well-being, and creating lasting connections.

Here are answers to some of the most common questions people have about therapy with me.

Call 775-235-2205 and I’ll be happy to touch base with you to further discuss what’s happening for you and how I can be of help. The session rate for therapy with Helen is $165 per 55-minutes.

Nevada License: #10250-C

Therapist in Reno, NV: Specialities and Expertise

Relationship Issues
Marital and Premarital
Life Transitions
Anxiety
Bisexual
Depression
Divorce
Grief
Infertility
Lesbian
LGBTQ+
Mood Disorders

Hillary Harris

Meet Hillary Harris

Hi, I’m Hillary Harris, a Clinical Professional Counselor Intern, therapist in Reno. Whether you’re experiencing loneliness, misunderstanding, disconnection or unhealed wounds, I can help. I have specialized training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a gold-standard for relationship counseling. I also do attachment-based EFT for individuals (EFIT). Additionally, for those interested, I am also comfortable incorporating Christian faith-based principles to support the client’s personal values and belief.

Research consistently shows that a strong therapeutic relationship, also called the therapeutic alliance, is vital for successful treatment. My goal is to create a supportive and collaborative environment where we can build emotional and relationship resilience. Using my specialized training, I help clients identify and disrupt negative cycles to foster lasting change. I’m passionate about working with couples, first responders, military personnel, those experiencing relationship loss, and individuals with PTSD. Additionally, I am part of a highly-collaborative team and do regular case consultation with our Clinical Director, Cornelius Sheehan, LCSW and Clinical Lead, Amanda Stewart, LCSW.

My military experience gives me insight into the unique challenges of high-stress jobs with chronic exposure to intense content.

At Emotional and Relationship Health Counseling Associates, our team provides attentive and personalized support. If you’re searching for a therapist in Reno, call us. We can discuss our approach and see if we’re the right fit. We offer a free consultation.

My standard session fee is $120. Our team is here to help you navigate your challenges and support your healing and growth. Contact us today to schedule an appointment. This is your first step towards improving your emotional wellbeing and relationship health. I look forward to supporting you on the path of self-awareness, self-acceptance, joy, and meaning.

Ages 18-years+

Hillary Harris Specialties and Expertise

Hillary’s Top Specialties

Relationship Issues
Trauma and PTSD

Expertise

Veterans

Addiction

Anxiety

Codependency

Depression

Divorce

Family Conflict

First Responders

Grief

Life Transitions

Marital and Premarital

Spirituality

Stress

Tammy Sheehan-Franchini

Care Coordinator and Administrative Lead

Welcome to our practice specializing in EFT marriage therapy, family therapy, and individual counseling in Reno! We understand that taking the first step towards therapy can be daunting, which is why we’ve designed our intake process to be as seamless and welcoming as possible. From the moment you reach out to our office, whether by phone or email, our priority is to create a warm, supportive, and confidential environment. We believe that the therapeutic journey truly begins with that initial connection.

I, or a member of our team of caring, non-judgmental and experienced EFT therapists in Reno, NV, will be your first point of contact. We’ll take the time to listen to your needs and concerns, and conduct a brief, non-clinical assessment to ensure that our practice is the right fit for you. We understand that the decision to seek help is a significant one, and we want you to feel confident and comfortable in your choice of therapist.

Once we’ve established a good fit, we’ll guide you through the process of scheduling your first appointment and completing any necessary paperwork. We strive to make the administrative aspects of therapy as smooth as possible, allowing you to focus on the most important part: your therapeutic journey. We believe that our practice in attachment-based EFT marriage, individual, family and couple counseling in Reno offers a powerful path to healing and growth, and we are committed to making that path accessible and supportive for you.

Helping You Start with Therapy in Reno

We don’t want the process to be any more complex than it needs to be. Our practice is “paperless.” What this means is that you’ll complete all of the necessary documentation via our HIPPA compliant online portal. Here are the steps to starting: 1) my team will email each client an invitation to the online portal as soon as we have done a brief preliminary intake. You may also have arranged for a brief consultation with one of our therapists. 2) complete the online forms within 36-hours to hold your appointment. 3) attend your appointment. 4) use the online scheduling feature in the portal to select future appointments. Our team will walk you through anything you find difficult.

Call us at 775-235-2205 to learn more about EFT couple counseling, individual or family therapy, EFT marriage therapy in Reno, and our practice in general. We’ll help get you scheduled for a brief no-cost consultation with one of our therapists.