Heal Through Connection with Interpersonal Therapy
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) helps you address relationship conflicts, life transitions, and social role difficulties that contribute to emotional distress. By improving your communication and relational insight, IPT empowers healing through stronger interpersonal bonds.
What Is Interpersonal Therapy and How Does It Help?
Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) is a time-limited, structured approach that targets the relational contexts contributing to emotional symptoms—especially depression and anxiety. It helps clients explore how unresolved grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits influence mental health.
Instead of digging into deep unconscious content, IPT emphasizes improving current relationships and enhancing communication. The therapist works collaboratively with clients to reduce isolation, clarify relationship roles, and develop social problem-solving skills.
Key Benefits
Reduces Depression and Anxiety Rooted in Relationship Struggles
Address how strained relationships trigger or maintain symptoms.
Improves Communication Skills
Learn to express needs clearly, listen actively, and manage interpersonal conflict.
Navigates Life Transitions
Cope with changes like divorce, relocation, or job shifts by strengthening support systems.
Resolves Unprocessed Grief
Explore and express grief over past losses in a supportive setting.
Treatment Goals
Clarify Interpersonal Roles
Define relationship expectations, responsibilities, and boundaries.
Process Relational Loss
Grieve past relationships while re-engaging with current social connections.
Develop Assertiveness
Practice setting limits and expressing emotions in respectful ways.
Enhance Social Support
Identify and strengthen healthy relationships.
Interpersonal Therapy for Relational Healing and Emotional Clarity
IPT helps you explore how your relationships impact your emotional well-being. By addressing unresolved grief, life changes, or communication struggles, you’ll build healthier connections and reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Assessment and Problem Area Identification
Evaluate interpersonal patterns and identify one of the four IPT focus areas: grief, disputes, transitions, or deficits.
Building a Relational Timeline
Map out key life events and relationships to understand context and identify change points.
Communication Skill Development
Role-play conversations, improve clarity in expression, and learn emotional labeling.
Conflict Resolution and Role Clarification
Negotiate expectations in key relationships using structured dialogue.
Closure and Future Planning
Summarize progress, outline future relational goals, and reinforce new strategies.
Relationship Mapping Worksheet
Identify your social network and the quality of each relationship.
Assertive Communication Practice Sheet
Practice using “I” statements, active listening, and boundary-setting.
Role Dispute Dialogue Templates
Structure conversations to resolve common relational disagreements.
Grief Processing Timeline
Outline key losses and emotional impacts to support meaning-making and healing.
