How to Navigate a Breakup | A Relationship Therapist’s Story and Tips on How to Cope Written by Lauren Aldridge, MA, MFT-C and co-written by Alysha Jeney, MA, LMFT How to navigate a breakup isn’t as black or white as we have often heard. Breakups cause the painful stuff that countless poems, songs, books (and now this blog post) talk about. A broken heart is a universal human experience. It seems to also .