Orlando Therapist Shares 10 Steps to Heal After After a Toxic Relationship

Written by: Lauran Hahn, LMHC

Have you just ended a toxic relationship where you constantly felt like you were walking on eggshells? You never knew what to expect next and felt anxious about what might set your partner off. One moment, your toxic partner might have showered you with love and attention, only to turn cold and cruel the next. Maybe a relationship with them made you feel stressed or emotionally drained. They often used gaslighting, guilt-tripping, or emotional blackmail to control you. They manipulated and played mind games, making you question your reality and worth and feel bad about yourself. Additionally, they frequently violated your boundaries, showing little respect for your personal space or needs.

Sometimes, the most sensible decision is to let go of those who have been harmful to us. However, walking away from a relationship is never easy, no matter how destructive and isolating that relationship was.

Orlando Trauma Therapist Shares What Is Behind Daddy Issues

I’m Lauran Hahn, LMHC and one of my specialties is helping people recover from toxic relationships and improving their attachment styles. It's my passion to help those who have experienced trauma and anxiety. Mindful Living Counseling, my therapy practice in Orlando, Florida, is a safe space where you can find the support you need to heal from your trauma.

Recently, I was asked to share my thoughts on the root cause of "daddy issues." This made me reflect on how the term itself carries a negative connotation and fails to accurately describe the challenges faced in relationships, especially for women.

Orlando Therapist: How to Deal with Passive-Aggressive People

Have you ever had a conversation with someone and walked away scratching your head thinking, “What just happened? That felt oddly aggressive.” If so, you’ve likely been on the receiving end of subtle jabs or hidden insults. This is known as passive-aggressive communication and it is like a cancer in relationships.

Passive-aggressive communication erodes trust, increases tension, and creates emotional distance between people, making it impossible to form a healthy relationship.

Is Arguing Healthy in a Relationship? Insights from an Orlando Therapist

Are you experiencing recurring disagreements with your significant other? Are you anxious about the potential harm it may cause to your relationship? Are you concerned that these disagreements could be detrimental to your overall connection?

I’m Lauran Hahn, LMHC, and I am the proud owner of Mindful Living Counseling located in Orlando, Florida. My expertise lies in toxic relationships and assisting clients in identifying the patterns that may be affecting and preventing them from having healthy relationships. I enable my clients to reclaim their power and regain control over their lives.

Anxiety Therapist Spotlight: Shauna Hughes

We are excited to highlight our newest member of the team, Shauna Hughes, Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern. Shauna works with adults struggling with anxiety, trauma, chronic illnesses, toxic relationships, and spiritual abuse. As an Orlando therapist, she answered some questions you may be wondering before starting anxiety counseling.

Orlando Therapist: How to Talk to Your Ex During and After a Breakup

As an Orlando therapist guiding clients through the pain of toxic and unhealthy relationships, I have helped many clients going through the season of a breakup.

When you’re going through a breakup you'll probably feel all sorts of emotions, such as hurt, loneliness, and resentment. It can be hard to process all these difficult and sometimes conflicting feelings.

You’re longing for closeness in relationships, but you just can’t seem to make that deep connection. You can’t quite put your finger on what is preventing you from making that meaningful and lasting connection.

You’ve even gone so far as to reflect on your old relationships and evaluate your unhealthy relationship patterns, but even with all this self-reflection and learning from your past, that feeling of being deeply emotionally connected continues to evade you.

At Mindful Living Counseling Orlando, we help people heal from and stop getting into toxic relationships. All of our therapists specialize in helping people move out of unhealthy relationships, so that they can cultivate meaningful and satisfying relationships.

Do you often feel angry and resentful in relationships? Do you feel powerless and stuck? Does it seem like you are at the mercy of other people’s moods or decisions? If so, it’s time to stop the blame game, get your footing, and take your power back in your life.

Orlando therapist providing tools to stop getting into toxic relationships.

From my experience as an anxiety therapist and relationship counselor, there are multiple possibilities of why you could be feeling overwhelmed, confused, or discouraged in your relationships (romantic or otherwise). In this blog series I will walk you through the different possibilities for what is causing your unhealthy relationship patterns and tools to start creating healthy ones.

Orlando Relationship Counselor offering you guidance on what emotionally healthy people look like….

As an Anxiety Therapist and Relationship Counselor in Orlando, I help folks wade through the murky waters of their overwhelming relationships. I help them put the pieces together and figure out what the heck is going on! In this post, I explore the healthy traits to look for in others and what to cultivate in yourself.

10 Traits of Toxic People

Feeling overwhelmed and confused about your relationship? Do you often find yourself wondering, “Is it me or them?” Do you feel stuck in all the drama and can’t seem to make heads or tails of who is doing what to create all the discord?

Your relationship is supposed to feel like a nice warm hug at the end of a hectic day, a safe haven of sorts, from the crazy world we live in. But, if yours feels like you’ve cuddled up to a giant porcupine, you may be in a relationship with an emotionally unhealthy person.

Orlando Counseling Providing Relationship Therapy

Welcome to the 4th part of Breaking up the Healthy Way [From the Experts]. In this final part, we are discussing the healing power of taking some time for self-reflection. If you missed the previous blog posts in this segment, you can find them here:

Orlando Counseling Providing Relationship Therapy

Welcome to Part 3 of Breaking up the Healthy [From the Experts]! In Part 1, we talked about the importance of feeling, rather than avoiding, all the feelings that are part of breakup. In Part 2, we discussed creative and empowering ways to channel your energy when going through a breakup. In this post, we are discussing the importance of understanding that going through a breakup is a grieving process. Whether the ending of your relationship is from a divorce or a breakup, this blog series has healing tips for getting you through it the healthy way!

Orlando Counseling Providing Relationship Therapy

"Why, oh why, do I keep going back? I know this relationship is toxic and I keep going back!” These words or some other closely related sentiment bounce off the walls during relationship counseling at least once a month.

Or when a relationship ends, “My ex is a total jerk! Why do I keep picking jerks?”

In couples counseling, I hear, “It always ends up this way! She walls off and stops talking and I end up exploding and nothing gets resolved. It’s like we can’t even communicate.”