Family Therapy

Family therapy can be a way we treat all kinds of mental and behavioral health challenges. It's not only for family conflict. Family therapy is a way to help you within your day-to-day environment. We recommend family therapy when it's clear that the challenges you face have a lot to do with your most important relationships. Also, if it's clear that your family can serve as a support system for you, we recommend bringing family members to therapy. If you're wondering whether family therapy is something you should try, just give us a call and we'll help you decide.

 

 

 
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SPECIALTIES

  • Effective Communication

  • Healthy Boundaries

  • Abuse

  • Mental Illness

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Blended Family Challenges

  • Trauma

HOW IS FAMILY THERAPY DIFFERENT?

Family therapy is different because it's not exclusively talk therapy. That is, unlike going to therapy by yourself, family therapy almost always involves relationships. Usually, people who seek family therapy do so because they're struggling with some challenge related to their family like conflict, communication challenges, behavioral issues or trauma. We can work through those challenges and observe patterns of interaction between family members, including those that are healthy and productive and those that are “toxic.” Our job is to help you change those patterns so you can create the family environment that works for you.

WHO NEEDS FAMILY THERAPY?

Family therapy is helpful for anyone who experiences family conflict that has reached a point where it feels difficult to move forward without professional help. Family dynamics that can be supported by family therapy include, but are not limited to:

  • Differences in parenting styles and related challenges with co-parenting

  • Parenting high-needs kids together or apart

  • Navigating relationships with in-laws

  • Coping with major life transitions such as the birth of a baby or retirement

  • Addiction or mental health issues and the impact on relationships

  • Multi-generational trauma

  • Creating healthy attachment and appropriate boundaries

We also believe it's the best way to help teenagers and young adults who are struggling to transition into adulthood or manage the stresses of school and life, children with behavioral problems and kids who are overall just struggling in a way that leaves parents uncertain about how to help.

WHY SHOULD WE GO TO FAMILY THERAPY?

Family therapy has been proven to effectively treat adolescent drug abuse, marital challenges, depression and alcoholism to name just a few. It's solution-oriented and from the moment you meet us, we'll be thinking about how to help you arrive at finding new solutions to old problems.