Specialties
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
My individual therapy sessions are designed to provide personalized support and guidance as you navigate through life's challenges and personal growth. I offer a confidential and non-judgmental space for you to explore your feelings and experiences, empowering you to make positive changes in your life.
Sometimes the best path to a healthy relationship and happy life is to find healing and growth before you find that special someone. Other times navigating multiple painful relationships brings the desire for personal healing and self-growth. Maybe you love someone who is adopted or has a wound in their attachment history. Maybe you are coming to therapy to learn how to better love your spouse, partner, friend, parent, child or yourself.
No matter what brings you in the door, I am glad you are here.
COUPLES COUNSELING
At Karl Stenske Therapy, I specialize in helping couples build stronger and healthier relationships. My counseling sessions are tailored to address communication issues, conflicts, and emotional barriers, fostering a deeper understanding and connection between partners.
You aren’t sure if your relationship can be fixed. There was so much love and passion before; somehow it all went wrong. But life without your partner seems unimaginable. Every relationship has challenging times. For some those rough spots become traps and you don’t know how to break free. For others, those hard times are magnified by hurts experienced many years before you ever met your partner.We will work together to understand how those hurts are now showing up in your relationship. Finding a way to stop the cycle that leads to arguments, loneliness, lack of intimacy and more.
ADOPTION SUPPORT
I understand the unique dynamics and challenges that come with adoption. My therapy services provide a compassionate and understanding approach to support individuals and families involved in the adoption process, considering adoption, have adopted or are adopted themselves. Addressing the emotional complexities and needs of nurturing healthy relationships.
Adoption has no choice but to impact attachment. Attachment after adoption can either make that impact more challenging or aid in its repair. Attachment is the wound and the healer.Together we will explore your story of relinquishment, adoption and attachment experiences.If you are not adopted but have attachment breaks in your history, such as being a birth parent, the loss of a parent, divorce, medical separation, the results can be equally as impactful. The need for healing is equal.
TRAUMA
You might wonder if being adopted is really a trauma. After all, you probably had a pretty good life, right? You may even feel like saying you were traumatized by your adoption experience is too dramatic, it happened so long ago and I should be over it by now. Unfortunately, that isn't how trauma works.
Attachment trauma is both complex and confusing. We will work to identify if trauma is part of your dynamic and from there start the process of bringing safety back to you and your relationship.
Get In Touch
Contact Information
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15615 Alton Pkwy, Suite 450
Irvine, CA 92618
Karl Stenske, MA, Adoption Specialist, LMFT 150804
"Family leaves and indelible mark on your life: demanding to be noticed and woven into every piece of your story"