Family Therapy

 
Family Therapy’s whole aim is to help you improve difficult relationships with your spouse, children, or other family members that have arisen. Often these look like: marital or financial problems, conflict between parents and children, dealing with unwanted changes, keeping a family together or parting peacefully and co-parenting well, or even the effects of addictions of any kind, substance abuse or a mental illness on the entire family.
 
“ Family therapy can be useful in any family situation that causes stress, grief, anger or conflict. It can help you and your family members understand one another better and bring you closer together. In the case of addiction, the family can attend family therapy while the person who has an addiction participates in residential treatment. Sometimes the family may participate in family therapy even if the addicted person hasn't sought out his or her own treatment ” (per the Mayo Clinic).
 
I work to resolve conflict, enhance love and pleasurable experiences, working with each family member who comes to my office (as well as the group) to make the adjustments necessary for positive change, accommodation and growth. Together, we work to quickly increase your family's strengths and resources and add tools for communicating productively and interacting peacefully.
 
Most family therapy is not long term, as understanding why you do what you do and the effect that has on each the people closest to you – and they back to you – can often get to your goals quickly with clinical support – though often it is impossible to do on your own.
 
Family Therapy may be what you want:

• If you feel that you can’t talk to your family members productively.
• If someone in your family unit has an addiction of any kind.
• If an adolescent is causing family stress.
• If parent’s have opposing ways of raising children.
• If you have a relationship(s) that’s become damaged.
• If you are a parent suffering from depression, anxiety, panic disorder, PTSD, substance or eating issues. 
• If you are dealing with disability or illness stress in your family.
• If you think you want to separate but aren’t sure.
• If you're dealing with a child custody or visitation issue. 
• If you, or someone you love, has been the victim of abuse. 
• Or…if anything going on in your family unit right now is causing distress and unhappiness.

Getting clinical support with these issues can help you find direction and alleviate some of the stress and sadness they create within a family. We all will go through family issues and transitions, but we don't have to go through them alone.