Trust difficulties in relationships come from two distinct sources that require different clinical approaches. The first is specific betrayal: infidelity, deception, or a violation of the relational agreement that the trust was based on. The second is a more longstanding pattern of mistrust that predates the current relationship and reflects earlier relational experience, developmental history, or the accumulated effect of multiple disappointments over time. A relationship counselor in Boca Raton who cannot distinguish between these two sources of trust difficulty risks applying the wrong approach and producing limited results.
Dr. Steinbok works with both presentations. When trust has been broken by a specific event in the current relationship, the counseling involves helping both partners understand what happened, process the emotional aftermath, and make informed decisions about whether and how to rebuild the relationship. When mistrust is a longstanding relational pattern that the person brings into each new relationship, the counseling is more individually oriented: understanding the history that generated the pattern, what it is protecting against, and how it has organized the person's relational choices and expectations. Dr. Steinbok's Boca Raton practice is equipped to work with both versions of trust difficulty, in individual counseling and in couples sessions depending on what the clinical situation calls for.
