No matter how hard you try, you can’t make a relationship stick.
You thought by now you’d be married, but you still haven’t settled down.
Every time you RSVP for a wedding you panic. Will you be single or dating someone when the wedding happens? You waver over which box to check with a sinking feeling in your stomach. Nights you’re alone, imagining what it would be like to have someone cooking dinner alongside you and watching Netflix. You want the warmth, the connection, and the security of knowing you’re with your person.
You try to ignore the anxiety, but when you remember your age your whole body tenses up. You’ve always imagined having a family, and you’re worried you won’t have time. You do the mental math. If you meet someone now and get married in two years, will you still be able to have a baby? What if you meet them in 6 months, or a year? How much time do you have?
People tell you it’s because dating is so hard these days. And it’s true. Dating in 2026 is hard. But deep down you know you’re part of the problem. You claim you want a long term, loving relationship, but you keep doing things that get in the way of that. And you can’t seem to stop.
Maybe you:
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are attracted to people who aren’t interested or capable of a relationship
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get excited, then lose interest after a few months
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avoid dating altogether, and question if you’re a relationship person.
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can't find anyone who interests you
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keep trying to make relationships work when you’re incompatible
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sabotage relationships by lying, cheating, or distancing
If you know you’re getting in the way of a healthy relationship, or sense that you might be, you’re in the right place.
About Amy Crawford, LPC
Women’s Dating and Relationship Therapist
My specialization in dating and relationships emerged from years of working with high achieving women.
I noticed that many of the women I worked with excelled in their careers, but felt out of control in relationships. They found themselves doing things like obsessively checking their messages, dating people who made them feel terrible, or people pleasing to avoid conflict.
Often, they knew it wasn’t healthy even as they were doing it, but they couldn’t make themselves stop. They felt frustrated and ashamed, and vowed that next time they would stay “in control.”
I began using Internal Family Systems therapy to help women understand what parts of them were taking over in relationships- the anxious parts, the avoidant parts, the fearful parts. Together, we explored where those parts came from and why they took over.
This created a shift, and things got easier. Instead of feeling “in control” or “out of control,” the internal battle stopped. They could go into relationships without overthinking or self sabotaging. And it became a lot easier to just BE.
Licensed in Virginia
Registered to provide telehealth services in Florida
100% online
Specialties:
Relationship and Dating Issues
Relationship Trauma
Anxiety
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
How this works:
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Reach Out
Schedule your free 20 minute video appointment. We’ll discuss what’s bringing you to therapy and I’ll answer any questions you have about working together. If you feel like we’re the right fit, we’ll schedule our first session.
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First session
In our intake session, you'll be able to share more in depth about your relationship struggles. We’ll begin to map out the parts that are driving your relationship issues and discuss where you’d like to focus first.
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Feel the Difference
In weekly or biweekly sessions, we’ll explore your relationship struggles and the parts that feel stuck. As our work deepens, you’ll develop more internal safety and learn to approach relationships with a clearer head.