Relationship & Life Transitions Therapy for Ambitious Adults in CA + VA
Helping you navigate relationship problems, generational trauma, and life transitions so you can feel self-assured and secure within your relationships.
Online therapy is offered throughout the SF Bay Area and Northern, VA. In-person sessions available in Tysons, VA.
You left the conversation feeling uneasy; the conversation continues to play like a broken record in your head.
“I wish I had said this.”
" Do they think I’m weird for saying that?”
“ I can’t correct my parents when they say that, it would be considered disrespectful.”
You’re left wondering if something is wrong with you because you haven’t found your person or people.
Your family doesn’t feel quite like family, because you don’t value the same things.
With culturally responsive individual or family (or friend) therapy, I’ll help you navigate those tough conversations and the emotional hangovers after the fallout.
Relationship therapy can help you feel like you're on your feet again as life shifts you into a new era, and honestly, a whole new version of you.
Whether it’s the new move, the breakup, or the new baby, therapy can help you navigate those complicated moments, the ones where you don’t have the words to express how you feel yet.
It’ll help you grieve your old life as you walk into your new one with the tools and confidence to create healthy relationships.
Hi! I'm Tayyibah Chase, a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in ambitious adults from culturally blended backgrounds. Whether you're the “only” in your family or friend group, parents with differing parenting styles, or managing clashing belief systems within your family, I can help you move through those gut-wrenching moments with the people who matter most.
My Approach
Through relationship and life transition therapy, I support clients working through relationship trauma, complicated family dynamics, relationship anxiety, painful breakups, and friendship struggles — so you can stop repeating the same patterns and start feeling more like yourself
Therapy doesn’t have to ignore your culture of origin
I use a culturally grounded approach to support individuals, dyads, and families — including postpartum families and adult siblings — to understand the roles they play within their relationships and make adjustments that help them navigate disagreements and shift old patterns.
Understanding our behaviors and roles in relationships gives us the information we need to build stronger bonds, shift dynamics, and find a community that supports who we are today. I can support you in understanding the cultural differences within your family and find ways for you to feel confident in the culture you’ve created for yourself.
Learning how to be seen and heard despite the struggle
In relationship and life transition therapy, I also teach ways to assess and communicate your needs as you tackle life's challenges. The common thread of life is that we're going to be thrown a curveball — the life event that knocks us off kilter. But you can rebuild and find grounding in your new life with better communication and life adjustments.
Myths about relationship therapy:
Relationship therapy will not help you find your ideal partner.
It will not give you the perfect friend group
Relationship therapy will not fix your family
What relationship therapy can support with:
Support overcoming relationship trauma
Culturally aligned boundary setting in culturally blended families
Coping with relationship anxiety in dating
Undo patterns from generational trauma
How it works:
The beginning stages of therapy are all about getting to know you so that I can better support you and your needs. We learn about your past and present to set goals for the future. We’ll do a comprehensive assessment and set realistic goals that will guide you throughout your therapy journey.
Intake
Doing The Work
This is the nitty-gritty, and to be honest, it isn’t always pretty. During the middle phase of therapy, is when we try new things like communication techniques, mindfulness, and habit building. It’s tough at first, but effective change doesn’t happen easily. But don’t worry when you try something new that works it feels really good.
My job isn’t to have clients in therapy forever. It’s to help clients equip themselves with tools they will continue using outside of therapy. The goal is to build enough self-awareness and practice to continue your work outside of therapy. We’ll recap everything you’ve gathered and get you on your way.
Transition
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Surviving a family crisis can feel like a daunting task, whether it’s a recent family diagnosis, a family loss, or incarceration, it can put a major strain on the family system. Family therapy allows each member to feel heard and seen within the family system. Family therapy can help you create a new family system to support the new needs post-crisis.
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Noticing and acknowledging the pattern is the first step. In relationships, we often have patterns of behavior that go back to our relationships in early childhood. By better understanding these core relationships, relationship therapy can help you begin to shift old patterns and create the new, healthy ones you desire.
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I see couples on a case by case basis. I want to feel assured that I can support you and your partners needs effectively. If you’d like to see how we might be able to work together, feel free to book a free 20 minute consultation.
