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Depth-Oriented Therapy for
Work that goes beyond symptom relief—focused on
the patterns shaping how you experience yourself and others.
Serving Florida, Michigan, and Virginia via telehealth.
Specialized therapy for emotional intensity, relationship instability, identity struggles, and longstanding interpersonal patterns.
Specialized therapy for emotional intensity, relationship instability, identity struggles, and longstanding interpersonal patterns.
Most people who reach out here are not new to therapy. They’ve tried insight, communication tools, or coping strategies—and still find themselves in the same cycles.
Many clients describe feeling emotionally overwhelmed in relationships, caught between wanting closeness and fearing it, or exhausted by patterns that continue despite insight and effort. I work with individuals, couples and families experiencing high-conflict dynamics, emotional intensity, and recurring relational patterns.
You may feel caught in painful emotional or relationship patterns that continue despite insight, effort, or self-awareness.
Therapy can help you better understand the emotional and relational dynamics shaping how you experience yourself and others — not just manage symptoms, but create meaningful and lasting change.
WHO THIS THERAPY IS FOR
WHO THIS THERAPY IS FOR
This Therapy May Be Helpful If You:
This Therapy May Be Helpful If You:
✔ Experience recurring conflict or instability
✔ Experience overwhelm in relationships
✔ Fear rejection, abandonment, or disconnection
✔ Have difficulty trusting others
✔ Unstable sense of self
✔ Experience recurring conflict or instability
✔ Experience overwhelm in relationships
✔ Fear rejection, abandonment, or disconnection
✔ Have difficulty trusting others
✔ Unstable sense of self
✔ Repeat painful relationship patterns
✔ Experience reactivity or sensitivity
✔ Desire deeper, long-term change
✔ Feeling misunderstood or chronically stuck
✔ Feel chronically stuck
✔ Repeat painful relationship patterns
✔ Experience reactivity or sensitivity
✔ Desire deeper, long-term change
✔ Feeling misunderstood or chronically stuck
✔ Feel chronically stuck
HOW THERAPY HELPS
HOW THERAPY HELPS
Therapy Focused on Longstanding Emotional and Relational Patterns
Therapy Focused on Longstanding Emotional and Relational Patterns
Many people who seek this type of therapy feel exhausted by patterns that seem to repeat no matter how much insight they have. They may long for closeness while simultaneously fearing it, feel emotionally misunderstood, or struggle to maintain stability in relationships and sense of self.
Therapy focuses on understanding the emotional and relational patterns shaping how you experience yourself, others, and close relationships.
Rather than focusing only on symptom management, the work aims to help you develop greater emotional awareness, stability, flexibility, and more meaningful ways of relating over time.
DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THERAPY
DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THERAPY
Therapy Can Be Tailored to Different Goals and Needs
Some clients seek therapy primarily for:
Therapy Can Be Tailored to Different Goals and Needs
Some clients seek therapy primarily for:
✔ Support
✔ Stabilization
✔ Stress management
✔ Or navigating difficult life circumstances
✔ Support
✔ Stabilization
✔ Stress management
✔ Or navigating difficult life circumstances
Others seek deeper work focused on longstanding emotional and relational patterns that continue to create distress over time.
Together, we determine the level of structure, depth, and focus that best fits your goals, current needs, and capacity for treatment.
Emrielle VanCleave
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
Certified Personality Disorder Treatment Provider
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II
MY APPROACH
MY APPROACH
A Structured and Depth-Oriented Approach
A Structured and Depth-Oriented Approach
My work integrates several evidence-based depth therapies focused on emotional patterns, relationships, personality structure, and long-term change.
Therapy is collaborative, active, and tailored to your individual needs and goals. The therapeutic relationship itself can become an important part of the work, helping identify and better understand emotional and interpersonal patterns as they emerge in real time.
My approach is informed by:
My approach is informed by:
✔ Schema Therapy
✔ Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)
✔ Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
✔ Schema Therapy
✔ Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)
✔ Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
SPECIALIZED AREAS OF FOCUS
SPECIALIZED AREAS OF FOCUS
✔ Emotional intensity
✔ Relationship instability
✔ Attachment difficulties
✔ Complex trauma
✔ Rejection sensitivity
✔ High-conflict relationships
✔ Emotional intensity
✔ Relationship instability
✔ Attachment difficulties
✔ Complex trauma
✔ Rejection sensitivity
✔ High-conflict relationships
✔ Identity disturbance
✔ Unstable sense of self
✔ Repetitive relationship dynamics
✔ Chronic interpersonal difficulties
✔ Fear of abandonment
✔ Difficulties with empathy
✔ Identity disturbance
✔ Unstable sense of self
✔ Repetitive relationship dynamics
✔ Chronic interpersonal difficulties
✔ Fear of abandonment
✔ Difficulties with empathy
SCHEDULE AN INITIAL APPOINTMENT
SCHEDULE AN INITIAL APPOINTMENT
If you are seeking thoughtful, depth-oriented therapy focused on meaningful and lasting change, you are welcome to reach out to schedule an initial appointment.
If You Are Experiencing a Crisis
If You Are Experiencing a Crisis
Hand in Hand Couples & Family Therapy does not provide emergency crisis services. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, feeling unsafe, or having thoughts of self-harm or suicide, please reach out for immediate support:
📞 Call 988 – The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (available 24/7)
📞 Text HOME to 741741 – Crisis Text Line (free, 24/7 support)
🏥 Go to the nearest emergency room or call 911 if you are in immediate danger.
You are not alone. Help is available.
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