Relationships Therapy in San Diego
Healthy Relationships Therapy for Women in San Diego
At Monima Wellness Center, our outpatient treatment center offers relationship therapy that helps women and female-identifying individuals transform their patterns of connection, heal from relational trauma, and build the secure, fulfilling relationships they deserve. Rooted in trauma-informed care and evidence-based practice, our specialized approach addresses the deep emotional wounds that often underlie relationship difficulties.
Many women struggle with relationship patterns that feel frustratingly familiar—cycles of anxiety and withdrawal, difficulty trusting partners, fear of abandonment, or challenges with intimacy and vulnerability. These patterns often stem from early life experiences, past relationship trauma, or ongoing mental health challenges that continue to influence how we connect with others. Our healthy relationships therapy, integrated within our Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) and Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP), provides the comprehensive support needed to heal these deep-rooted patterns.
Relationship Healing at Monima
Relationship healing at Monima recognizes that relationship difficulties often stem from deeper emotional patterns that require comprehensive treatment. Whether these patterns developed from early life experiences, past relationship trauma, or ongoing mental health challenges, our integrative approach addresses the root causes of relationship distress as part of your overall treatment plan.
Within our IOP and PHP programs, relationship work happens through both group therapy sessions and individual treatment sessions, where our expert clinicians can focus on the specific relationship goals that matter most to your healing journey. This might include processing relationship trauma through specialized modalities, developing emotional regulation skills that improve your connections, or learning healthy communication and boundary-setting techniques.
Rather than treating relationship issues in isolation, our clinicians integrate relationship-focused work into your comprehensive treatment experience, drawing from multiple evidence-based modalities as appropriate for your individual needs and treatment goals.
Core principles of relationship healing within our programs include:
Integrated Treatment Goals involves making relationship healing a specific focus within your overall IOP or PHP treatment plan, ensuring your relationship work connects to your broader mental health recovery.
Group and Individual Integration addresses relationship patterns through both group therapy sessions with other women facing similar challenges and individual sessions where your clinician can focus specifically on your relationship goals.
Evidence-Based Modality Integration provides access to specialized therapeutic approaches that our clinicians can incorporate into your treatment as appropriate for your specific relationship healing needs.
Research consistently demonstrates that comprehensive relationship interventions significantly improve relationship satisfaction, emotional regulation, and overall mental health outcomes.
Ready to Start Your Journey?
Contact us today at 858-500-1542 to begin crafting your path to recovery.
The Monima Difference: Women-Centered Relationship Healing
What sets Monima’s relationship therapy apart is our deep understanding of how gender-specific experiences—including societal expectations, cultural messaging, and gender-based trauma—impact women’s relationship patterns.
Integrated Within Comprehensive Mental Health Care
Our relationship therapy isn’t offered as a separate service but is woven throughout your treatment experience at Monima. Whether you’re working through patterns that create relationship anxiety or addressing trauma that affects your capacity for trust, relationship healing happens within our comprehensive approach to mental wellness.
Trauma-Informed Relationship Work
Many relationship difficulties stem from unresolved trauma that affects your nervous system’s ability to feel safe in connection. Our trauma-informed approach recognizes how past experiences live in your body and influence your relationship responses, providing specialized techniques to heal these deeper wounds within your treatment plan.
Holistic Mind-Body-Spirit Integration
Relationship healing at Monima incorporates our full range of healing modalities. Trauma-informed yoga helps you reconnect with your body’s wisdom about safety and connection, while specialized therapeutic modalities process relationship traumas that traditional approaches might not reach.
Gender-Specific Understanding
Women and female-identifying individuals often face unique challenges in relationships, including cultural expectations about emotional caregiving, perfectionism in partnership, and the impact of gender-based trauma. Our female clinical team understands these patterns intimately, creating a safe space for exploration without judgment.
Levels of Care
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
The Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) at Monima is individualized for women and offers part-time, intentional, and comprehensive treatment for challenges related to mental health and trauma recovery.
IOP is designed specifically for women ready for level of support above traditional once-per-week therapy, or as a stepping stone between a full-time recovery program — such as PHP or residential treatment — and returning to their daily routines full-time.
Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP)
The Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) at Monima provides treatment for women seeking a comprehensive and full-time mental health treatment program that fosters lasting mental, physical, and spiritual wellness.
PHP is the highest level of care available at Monima, intentionally designed for women that are ready for a step above basic therapy, psychiatric support, or IOP. Most clients take a leave of absence from work, school, or their daily routines to fully immerse themselves in healing.
Outpatient
Program
(OP)
Monima Wellness offers an outpatient program (OP) to provide continued mental health support while integrating into their daily lives. This program is available to those who have completed our PHP or IOP. Sometimes referred to as aftercare, the OP emphasizes maintaining and building upon the progress achieved in previous phases, allowing clients to begin balancing their recovery with work, education, or family responsibilities.
How Relationship Work Integrates Into Your Treatment
Within our comprehensive IOP and PHP programs, relationship healing becomes a targeted focus area that addresses multiple dimensions of relational recovery through evidence-based approaches tailored to women’s unique experiences.
Group Therapy Focus on Relationship Patterns
Participate in group therapy sessions specifically designed to explore relationship dynamics with other women facing similar challenges. These sessions provide opportunities to practice new communication skills, process relationship experiences, and learn from others’ insights in a supportive environment.
Individual Session Relationship Goals
Work one-on-one with your clinician to address specific relationship patterns, process past relationship traumas, and develop personalized strategies for building healthier connections. Your individual sessions can focus intensively on relationship goals as part of your broader treatment plan.
Skill Development Through Program Activities
Learn practical relationship skills through various program components, including emotional regulation techniques through DBT skills groups, communication practice in group settings, and trauma processing through specialized individual work.
Real-Time Application and Support
Practice new relationship skills within the supportive community of your treatment program, receiving feedback and encouragement from both clinicians and peers as you work toward building healthier relationship patterns.
Who Benefits from Integrated Relationship Work?
Our relationship therapy integration is designed specifically for women and female-identifying individuals enrolled in our IOP or PHP programs who recognize that relationship healing is an important component of their overall mental health recovery.
This comprehensive approach is particularly transformative for women experiencing:
- Anxious relationship patterns that create constant worry, jealousy, or need for reassurance in relationships
- Avoidant relationship patterns that make emotional intimacy feel threatening or overwhelming
- Relationship trauma from past partnerships that affects your ability to trust or feel safe with others
- Repetitive relationship cycles where you find yourself in similar dynamics despite wanting different outcomes
- Difficulty with boundaries including people-pleasing, over-giving, or struggling to say no in relationships
- Fear of abandonment that leads to clinging behaviors or pushing partners away before they can leave
- Trust issues stemming from betrayal, infidelity, or emotional neglect in past relationships
- Communication challenges including conflict avoidance, emotional reactivity, or difficulty expressing needs
Evidence-Based Modalities Our Clinicians Can Integrate
Our clinicians are trained in specialized therapeutic modalities that can be integrated into your treatment plan when relationship healing becomes a focus area within your IOP or PHP program.
EMDR for Relationship Trauma
Many relationship difficulties stem from specific traumatic experiences that remain unprocessed. Our EMDR-trained clinicians can integrate EMDR therapy into your individual sessions to help process relationship traumas, reducing their emotional charge and freeing you to form healthier connections.
Individual Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Drawing from EFT’s research-backed approach to relationship healing, our trained clinicians can integrate emotional awareness and processing techniques that help you understand the emotional cycles driving relationship distress and develop new patterns of connection based on security and emotional awareness.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Relationships
Our clinicians can integrate CBT techniques to help you identify and challenge negative thought patterns and beliefs about relationships that fuel anxiety, depression, and relationship conflicts within both individual and group session contexts.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills
DBT skills are particularly valuable for relationship work and can be applied directly to relationship challenges. Learn emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness—all crucial for maintaining healthy connections during conflict or stress.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Our clinicians can integrate attachment-based therapy approaches to help you understand how early relationship experiences shaped your current patterns of connection, trust, and intimacy, addressing root causes rather than just surface-level symptoms.
Individual Focus vs. Couples Work
Our approach emphasizes individual relationship healing within our comprehensive programs, recognizing that personal healing often needs to happen before effective couples work can begin.
Individual Relationship Work Within Our Programs Is Ideal When:
- You have a history of relationship trauma that affects your capacity for trust and safety in connection.
- Your relationship patterns stem from childhood experiences or past traumas that need healing before engaging in partner work.
- You struggle with anxiety, depression, or other mental health concerns that impact relationships and require comprehensive treatment.
- You need to develop stronger emotional regulation and sense of self before engaging in couples work.
- Your partner isn’t ready or available for couples therapy, but you’re committed to healing your patterns.
- You want to understand your own relationship dynamics within a comprehensive treatment context.
Integration with Partner Work
As you heal your own emotional wounds and develop greater relationship skills within our program, we can help determine when and how to involve your partner in the healing process, whether through specialized referrals or integrated approaches.
Struggling With Relationship Issues?
Transforming relationship patterns within the context of comprehensive mental health treatment provides the foundation for lasting change. At Monima Wellness, our integrated approach ensures that relationship healing happens alongside your broader recovery, creating sustainable transformation.
Whether you’re seeking treatment primarily for mental health concerns and recognize that relationship issues are connected, or you know that relationship healing needs to be part of your comprehensive treatment plan, our expert masters-level clinicians are here to guide your integrated healing journey.
