You Are Not Too Much.
You Are Living With Too Little.
Relationship Therapy
with Faith Berry, LCSW
For women in their 40s and 50s who feel ignored, minimized, or emotionally alone in their relationship and are ready to reclaim self-respect and set real boundaries.
You’re not broken for wanting to be seen. You’re human—and you deserve a relationship that doesn’t require you to disappear.
You’ve done what you were told would help.
You’ve communicated calmly.
You’ve been patient.
You’ve tried to understand, adjust, soften, and wait.
From the outside, it might look like you’re holding it together.
Inside, you’re tired of being the one who bends, explains, manages, and absorbs the silence.
This space isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about helping you stop shrinking to keep the peace.
Stop questioning your worth when your needs go unmet.
Stop carrying the emotional weight of a relationship that leaves you feeling invisible, lonely, or afraid to speak.
Here, you’ll learn how to come back to yourself with honesty and self-respect.
How to listen to what your body and emotions have been telling you for a long time.
And how to choose clarity, dignity, and emotional safety—whether that leads to repair, change, or a different path forward.
You Are Not Too Much.
You Are Living With Too Little.
Relationship Therapy
with Faith Berry, LCSW
You’re not broken for wanting to be seen. You’re human—and you deserve a relationship that doesn’t require you to disappear.
You’ve done what you were told would help.
You’ve communicated calmly.
You’ve been patient.
You’ve tried to understand, adjust, soften, and wait.
From the outside, it might look like you’re holding it together.
Inside, you’re tired of being the one who bends, explains, manages, and absorbs the silence.
This space isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about helping you stop shrinking to keep the peace.
Stop questioning your worth when your needs go unmet.
Stop carrying the emotional weight of a relationship that leaves you feeling invisible, lonely, or afraid to speak.
Here, you’ll learn how to come back to yourself with honesty and self-respect.
How to listen to what your body and emotions have been telling you for a long time.
And how to choose clarity, dignity, and emotional safety—whether that leads to repair, change, or a different path forward.
HOW IT WORKS
The Honest Love Pathway is a structured 90 day process designed to help you stop surviving inside your relationship and start making grounded choices from self respect instead of fear.
This is not a vague talk it out approach.
This is not about forcing clarity before you are ready.
This is a step by step pathway that helps you see what is actually happening, understand how it has shaped you, and decide what you are willing to keep carrying forward.
Each phase builds on the one before it so you are not skipping ahead, self abandoning, or making decisions from exhaustion or panic.
Phase 1: Wake Up to What’s Missing
Phase 1 is about clarity without self blame.
Most women don’t arrive here because they’re dramatic or needy.
They arrive here because they’ve been explaining away their own pain for so long that numbness starts to feel normal.
This phase helps you slow down, stop minimizing, and see the relationship as it actually is, not as you keep hoping it will become.
You are not rushing to make decisions here.
You are learning to tell the truth to yourself again.
STEP 1: Spot the Pattern
You will begin tracking how often your needs are sidelined, ignored, or dismissed in everyday moments.
Not the blowups.
The quiet moments that add up.
This helps you:
Notice recurring behaviors instead of isolated incidents
Stop second guessing whether it’s “really that bad”
See patterns without immediately blaming yourself
STEP 2: Decode the Dynamics
You will learn how dismissal, emotional absence, and being minimized slowly shape your self worth.
This helps you:
Understand why you feel smaller, quieter, or more anxious than you used to
Separate your value from your partner’s behavior
Name what has been happening without exaggeration or denial
STEP 3: Notice the Numbness
You will acknowledge where you’ve gone emotionally quiet, shut down, or stopped asking for more just to survive.
This helps you:
Recognize numbness as a response, not a personality flaw
Understand what your silence has been protecting you from
Begin reconnecting with your own emotional signals
PHASE 2: Honor Your Own Needs
Phase 2 is where self respect becomes non negotiable.
Many women learned early that keeping the peace meant staying quiet, being agreeable, and managing everyone else’s emotions before their own.
Over time, that role becomes a survival strategy that slowly erases your voice.
This phase helps you stop organizing your life around someone else’s comfort and start honoring what you need to feel safe, respected, and whole.
STEP 4: Unlearn the Peacemaker Role
You will begin questioning who taught you to stay quiet and why that role felt necessary.
This helps you:
See how peacekeeping became tied to love and safety
Understand why speaking up feels dangerous even when nothing changes
Separate responsibility from self sacrifice
STEP 5: Reclaim Self Respect
You will stop shrinking, over explaining, or betraying yourself just to keep someone close.
This helps you:
Recognize where you have been negotiating your worth
Practice saying less instead of proving more
Build internal trust by honoring what you already know
STEP 6: Choose Mutual Peace
You will release the habit of managing other people’s comfort at the cost of your own dignity.
This helps you:
Stop absorbing emotional fallout that does not belong to you
Set boundaries without begging or justifying
Choose calm that does not require self abandonment"
Phase 3: Find Hope and Strength in Dark Hours
Phase 3 is about choice made from clarity, not fear.
By this point, you are no longer guessing, hoping, or bargaining with yourself.
You are grounded in what you need, what you will not carry anymore, and what kind of relationship you are willing to participate in moving forward.
This phase is not about forcing repair or rushing toward an ending.
It is about deciding what “us” actually means and whether it can be built in a way that honors you.
STEP 7: Get Honest About What You Need
You will name what you actually require to feel emotionally safe, respected, and connected.
This helps you:
Speak from clarity instead of over explaining
Stop negotiating needs down to avoid conflict
Trust yourself even if your honesty creates discomfort
STEP 8: End the Patterns That Break You
You will interrupt cycles of gaslighting, avoidance, emotional cruelty, and silence.
This helps you:
Recognize when patterns resurface instead of debating intent
Respond from self respect rather than survival
Stop reentering dynamics that erode your sense of self
STEP 9: Create “Us” Again
You will explore what rebuilding looks like when both people are present, accountable, and emotionally available.
This helps you:
Define partnership instead of settling for coexistence
Clarify whether repair is mutual or one sided
Choose a future that does not require you to disappear
You Don’t Have to Keep Living in Survival Mode.
Surviving isn’t the same as being respected.
The Honest Love Pathway offers a clear, therapist guided way to stop shrinking to keep the peace, stop questioning your worth when your needs go unmet, and stop living in fear of rocking the boat.
Instead, you’ll learn how to tell the truth to yourself without self blame, trust your own needs without over explaining, and build boundaries that protect your dignity.
Whether your relationship repairs or changes, this work helps you come back to yourself and choose a life and partnership that does not require you to disappear.
What We’re Going To Cover
This work is not about learning how to tolerate more or explain yourself better.
It is about understanding what has been happening beneath the surface, strengthening your internal clarity, and practicing new ways of responding that protect your self respect and emotional safety.
Inside The Honest Love Pathway, we will cover:
How to recognize emotional neglect without minimizing or rationalizing it
How to stop doubting yourself when your needs are ignored or dismissed
How to set boundaries without begging, proving, or over explaining
How to stay grounded when someone withdraws, gaslights, or threatens abandonment
How to rebuild trust with yourself before deciding what comes next
How to choose peace and clarity even if others resist your growth
Seeing the Truth Without Self Blame
Before anything can change, you need clarity that does not come with shame.
This section focuses on helping you understand what is actually happening in your relationship without minimizing it, excusing it, or turning it inward on yourself.
YOU WILL WORK ON:
Naming emotional neglect without convincing yourself it is normal
Recognizing gaslighting, dismissal, and avoidance without debating intent
Understanding how silence and numbness develop as survival responses
Separating your worth from how you are being treated
Letting go of the idea that if you just explain it better things will change
Rebuilding Self Respect and Boundaries
Once you can see the truth clearly, the next step is learning how to stop abandoning yourself in response to it.
This section focuses on strengthening self respect so your boundaries come from clarity and steadiness, not fear or anger.
YOU WILL WORK ON:
Stopping the habit of over explaining, justifying, or proving your needs
Setting boundaries without begging or waiting for permission
Recognizing where peacekeeping has replaced self respect
Choosing calm that does not require you to stay silent
Trusting your internal signals even when others resist change
Choosing What Comes Next With Clarity
This work is not about pushing you toward staying or leaving.
It is about helping you make decisions from self respect instead of fear, guilt, or exhaustion.
This section focuses on what it means to choose a relationship, or a future, that does not cost you your sense of self.
YOU WILL WORK ON:
Getting honest about what you need to feel emotionally safe and respected
Recognizing when patterns are changing versus repeating
Letting go of hope that requires you to keep shrinking
Defining what partnership actually means to you now
Making grounded choices without rushing or second guessing yourself
Meet Faith Berry, LCSW
I’ve worked with women long enough to know how easy it is to lose yourself while trying to keep a relationship together.
Most of the women I support are not asking for too much.
They’re asking for honesty, presence, and respect, and they’ve been told in countless ways to quiet that need.
My work is grounded in helping you come back to yourself.
To slow down.
To listen to what your body and emotions have been trying to say.
And to stop carrying the belief that loving someone means enduring harm or erasing your needs.
This space is not about blaming or fixing anyone.
It’s about clarity, self respect, and choosing a way forward that honors who you are.
You don’t have to disappear to be loved.
And you don’t have to walk this alone.
HOW IT WORKS
The Honest Love Pathway is a structured 90 day process designed to help you stop surviving inside your relationship and start making grounded choices from self respect instead of fear.
This is not a vague talk it out approach.
This is not about forcing clarity before you are ready.
This is a step by step pathway that helps you see what is actually happening, understand how it has shaped you, and decide what you are willing to keep carrying forward.
Each phase builds on the one before it so you are not skipping ahead, self abandoning, or making decisions from exhaustion or panic.
Phase 1: Wake Up to What’s Missing
Phase 1 is about clarity without self blame.
Most women don’t arrive here because they’re dramatic or needy.
They arrive here because they’ve been explaining away their own pain for so long that numbness starts to feel normal.
This phase helps you slow down, stop minimizing, and see the relationship as it actually is, not as you keep hoping it will become.
You are not rushing to make decisions here.
You are learning to tell the truth to yourself again.
STEP 1: Spot the Pattern
You will begin tracking how often your needs are sidelined, ignored, or dismissed in everyday moments.
Not the blowups.
The quiet moments that add up.
This helps you:
Notice recurring behaviors instead of isolated incidents
Stop second guessing whether it’s “really that bad”
See patterns without immediately blaming yourself
STEP 2: Decode the Dynamics
You will learn how dismissal, emotional absence, and being minimized slowly shape your self worth.
This helps you:
Understand why you feel smaller, quieter, or more anxious than you used to
Separate your value from your partner’s behavior
Name what has been happening without exaggeration or denial
STEP 3: Notice the Numbness
You will acknowledge where you’ve gone emotionally quiet, shut down, or stopped asking for more just to survive.
This helps you:
Recognize numbness as a response, not a personality flaw
Understand what your silence has been protecting you from
Begin reconnecting with your own emotional signals
PHASE 2: Honor Your Own Needs
Phase 2 is where self respect becomes non negotiable.
Many women learned early that keeping the peace meant staying quiet, being agreeable, and managing everyone else’s emotions before their own.
Over time, that role becomes a survival strategy that slowly erases your voice.
This phase helps you stop organizing your life around someone else’s comfort and start honoring what you need to feel safe, respected, and whole.
STEP 7: Get Honest About What You Need
You will name what you actually require to feel emotionally safe, respected, and connected.
This helps you:
Speak from clarity instead of over explaining
Stop negotiating needs down to avoid conflict
Trust yourself even if your honesty creates discomfort
STEP 8: End the Patterns That Break You
You will interrupt cycles of gaslighting, avoidance, emotional cruelty, and silence.
This helps you:
Recognize when patterns resurface instead of debating intent
Respond from self respect rather than survival
Stop reentering dynamics that erode your sense of self
STEP 9: Create “Us” Again
You will explore what rebuilding looks like when both people are present, accountable, and emotionally available.
This helps you:
Define partnership instead of settling for coexistence
Clarify whether repair is mutual or one sided
Choose a future that does not require you to disappear
Phase 3: Find Hope and Strength in Dark Hours
Phase 3 is about choice made from clarity, not fear.
By this point, you are no longer guessing, hoping, or bargaining with yourself.
You are grounded in what you need, what you will not carry anymore, and what kind of relationship you are willing to participate in moving forward.
This phase is not about forcing repair or rushing toward an ending.
It is about deciding what “us” actually means and whether it can be built in a way that honors you.
STEP 7: Get Honest About What You Need
You will name what you actually require to feel emotionally safe, respected, and connected.
This helps you:
Speak from clarity instead of over explaining
Stop negotiating needs down to avoid conflict
Trust yourself even if your honesty creates discomfort
STEP 8: End the Patterns That Break You
You will interrupt cycles of gaslighting, avoidance, emotional cruelty, and silence.
This helps you:
Recognize when patterns resurface instead of debating intent
Respond from self respect rather than survival
Stop reentering dynamics that erode your sense of self
STEP 9: Create “Us” Again
You will explore what rebuilding looks like when both people are present, accountable, and emotionally available.
This helps you:
Define partnership instead of settling for coexistence
Clarify whether repair is mutual or one sided
Choose a future that does not require you to disappear
You Don’t Have to Keep Living in Survival Mode.
Surviving isn’t the same as being respected.
The Honest Love Pathway offers a clear, therapist guided way to stop shrinking to keep the peace, stop questioning your worth when your needs go unmet, and stop living in fear of rocking the boat.
Instead, you’ll learn how to tell the truth to yourself without self blame, trust your own needs without over explaining, and build boundaries that protect your dignity.
Whether your relationship repairs or changes, this work helps you come back to yourself and choose a life and partnership that does not require you to disappear.
What We’re Going To Cover
This work is not about learning how to tolerate more or explain yourself better.
It is about understanding what has been happening beneath the surface, strengthening your internal clarity, and practicing new ways of responding that protect your self respect and emotional safety.
Inside The Honest Love Pathway, we will cover:
How to recognize emotional neglect without minimizing or rationalizing it
How to stop doubting yourself when your needs are ignored or dismissed
How to set boundaries without begging, proving, or over explaining
How to stay grounded when someone withdraws, gaslights, or threatens abandonment
How to rebuild trust with yourself before deciding what comes next
How to choose peace and clarity even if others resist your growth
Seeing the Truth Without Self Blame
Before anything can change, you need clarity that does not come with shame.
This section focuses on helping you understand what is actually happening in your relationship without minimizing it, excusing it, or turning it inward on yourself.
YOU WILL WORK ON:
Naming emotional neglect without convincing yourself it is normal
Recognizing gaslighting, dismissal, and avoidance without debating intent
Understanding how silence and numbness develop as survival responses
Separating your worth from how you are being treated
Letting go of the idea that if you just explain it better things will change
Rebuilding Self Respect and Boundaries
Once you can see the truth clearly, the next step is learning how to stop abandoning yourself in response to it.
This section focuses on strengthening self respect so your boundaries come from clarity and steadiness, not fear or anger.
YOU WILL WORK ON:
Stopping the habit of over explaining, justifying, or proving your needs
Setting boundaries without begging or waiting for permission
Recognizing where peacekeeping has replaced self respect
Choosing calm that does not require you to stay silent
Trusting your internal signals even when others resist change
Choosing What Comes Next With Clarity
This work is not about pushing you toward staying or leaving.
It is about helping you make decisions from self respect instead of fear, guilt, or exhaustion.
This section focuses on what it means to choose a relationship, or a future, that does not cost you your sense of self.
YOU WILL WORK ON:
Getting honest about what you need to feel emotionally safe and respected
Recognizing when patterns are changing versus repeating
Letting go of hope that requires you to keep shrinking
Defining what partnership actually means to you now
Making grounded choices without rushing or second guessing yourself
Meet Faith Berry, LCSW
I’ve worked with women long enough to know how easy it is to lose yourself while trying to keep a relationship together.
Most of the women I support are not asking for too much.
They’re asking for honesty, presence, and respect, and they’ve been told in countless ways to quiet that need.
My work is grounded in helping you come back to yourself.
To slow down.
To listen to what your body and emotions have been trying to say.
And to stop carrying the belief that loving someone means enduring harm or erasing your needs.
This space is not about blaming or fixing anyone.
It’s about clarity, self respect, and choosing a way forward that honors who you are.
You don’t have to disappear to be loved.
And you don’t have to walk this alone.
FAQS
How does this program work?
The Honest Love Pathway is a structured, step by step relationship therapy process designed primarily for women. Over 90 days, you’ll move through a guided 9 step framework that helps you understand what’s happening in your relationship, strengthen self respect, and build boundaries that support emotional safety and clarity. Sessions are held virtually, making it possible to participate from your own space while receiving consistent, therapist led support.
Who is this for?
This work is especially supportive for women who feel ignored, minimized, emotionally alone, or afraid to speak up in their relationship. Many clients are in midlife and navigating long term partnerships where emotional neglect, dismissal, or power imbalances have taken a toll. While the focus is on individual relationship therapy for women, couples work may be integrated when appropriate and aligned.
What if I’m not sure I’m ready or don’t know what I want yet?
Not knowing is part of the work. You do not need to be certain about staying, leaving, or repairing your relationship before starting. This process is designed to help you gain clarity without rushing decisions or abandoning yourself. We move one step at a time, at a pace that supports safety and self trust.
What makes this different from other relationship therapy?
This is not a generic talk it out approach or a focus on managing symptoms. The Honest Love Pathway is a therapist guided framework that centers self respect, emotional safety, and truth telling. Instead of asking you to tolerate more or communicate better inside harmful patterns, the work helps you understand those patterns and choose how you want to engage moving forward.
Do you only work with women?
I do not currently accept insurance. I can provide superbills for out of network reimbursement depending on your coverage. Many clients also use HSA or FSA cards. Financial details and accessibility can be discussed during a consultation.
Do you accept insurance?
My primary focus is supporting women in relationship therapy. That said, I also work with couples when it is appropriate and when both partners are willing to engage honestly and responsibly in the process. What matters most is alignment with the work and a shared commitment to clarity and respect.
How do I get started?
The first step is to schedule a consultation call. This gives us a chance to connect, talk through what you’re experiencing, and see if The Honest Love Pathway feels like the right fit for you.
You Don’t Have to Keep Living Like This.
You can stop shrinking to keep the peace.
You can stop questioning your worth.
And you can choose clarity, self respect, and emotional safety moving forward.
You Don’t Have to Keep Living Like This.
You can stop shrinking to keep the peace.
You can stop questioning your worth.
And you can choose clarity, self respect, and emotional safety moving forward.
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