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Create Relationships
Where Everyone Knows They Matter

You can long for connection and still find yourself caught in patterns that leave you feeling misunderstood, unimportant, or painfully alone.

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Together, we can transform those patterns and create relationships rooted in authenticity, dignity, belonging, and mutual care.

What Brings You Here

Different relationships, different challenges, and a shared longing for connection where everyone can thrive. You may recognize yourself in more than one of these experiences. In any case, I'm so glad you're here.

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INDIVIDUALS

Change Your Relationships, Starting With You

Explore the patterns shaping your relationships and discover new possibilities for connection—even when others aren't in the work.

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COUPLES

Find Each Other Without Losing Yourselves

Move beyond recurring conflict and disconnection toward a relationship where you feel close and at home again. 

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ETHICAL NON-MONOGAMY

Build Secure Relationships on Your Own Terms

Navigate complex relationship dynamics while cultivating trust, autonomy, security, and mutual care.

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PARENTS

Break Painful Cycles, Build an Empowering Legacy

Transform the patterns shaping your relationship as you raise children and cultivate a relational legacy you want them to inherit.

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CHOSEN FAMILY

Build a Life of Connection Beyond Romance

Committed platonic relationships are vital and deserve care, too. Cultivate and mend the bonds that make life together.

Looking for couples counseling or marriage therapy?

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If you're searching for help with a relationship caught in painful cycles of conflict and disconnection, you've come to a place where those struggles are taken seriously—and where meaningful change is possible.

 

I offer Relational Life Therapy, a non-clinical approach to transforming relationship patterns and cultivating greater authenticity, connection, and mutual care. I am not a licensed mental health provider, and my services are not Marriage and Family Therapy or Professional Counseling.

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What if thriving didn't have to come at someone else's expense?

My needs or yours. Freedom or commitment. Boundaries or connection. Individual wellbeing or collective wellbeing.

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We're surrounded by messages that teach us to compete rather than collaborate—as though there isn't enough for everyone.

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I believe thriving relationships both require and make possible another way of being together—one that honors the dignity and aliveness of everyone involved.

Learn More About My Philosophy (coming soon)

Hello! I'm Teri.

Certified Relational Life Therapy Practitioner

Registered Drama Therapist

I've spent much of my life exploring what makes relationships work—and why, even when we love one another, we can end up hurting each other, losing ourselves, or feeling painfully alone.

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Today, I help individuals, couples, and chosen family understand the patterns keeping them stuck, navigate conflict with greater honesty and compassion, and build relationships grounded in mutual respect, authenticity, and care.

 

I know this territory from the inside out. The skills I've spent years developing have transformed my own relationships, too. And there's little that moves me more than witnessing people discover new possibilities for connection, repair, and mutual thriving.

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GET IN TOUCH

I'd love to hear from you! Send me a message with this form, by email, or by giving me a call (no office drop-ins, please.)

512 E. 9th Street, Suite B

Lawrence, KS 66044

teri (at) radical-hearts (dot) com

785-331-9132

Thanks for getting in touch!

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Teri Lynn Grunthaner, MA, RDT, C-RLC

teri (at) radical-hearts (dot) com

785-331-9132

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