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Family Therapy

Family therapy aims to resolve distress among family members, while developing strategies that improve the family dynamic. It can be difficult to express what we feel to members of our family. Family therapy sessions include work with your family as a group and in smaller teams to clarify issues and how best to address them. This is a collaborative effort that may involve outside exercises to continue progress. I will work with a family with a child of any age, but not as the primary client until the age of 15.

We will work toward mutual acceptance, improved communication, increased trust, and better strategies for disrupting damaging behavior before and as it occurs. Here are signs that counseling may benefit your family:

  • Your child or teen is behaving in an inappropriate or dangerous manner and you are unable to “get through” to him or her.
  • Communication creates the same or worse arguments.
  • Anger, fear, or stress are dominant emotions within family relationships.
  • Key relationships in the family are suffering – such as between the parents, child or adult siblings, or one family member and a close relative.
  • One family member exhibits addictive or dangerous behavior.
  • Patterns of abuse – verbal and/or physical – exist within the family.

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
- George Bernard shaw -

Your 3-Step Success Plan

My therapy is based on helping you transition into who you want to be and how you want to feel through practiced mindfulness and practical psychological processes, concepts and strategies. I am known for helping people get results. This is how it works.

1

Learn

We will discuss your goals and challenges to create clarity in terms of where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there. In this first step you will gain the conceptual and theoretical knowledge of new behaviors, concepts and strategies.

2

Practice

Your participation in homework and assignments will help develop the skills, mindset, and behaviors that will benefit you personally. In this practical application phase, feedback about successes and challenges are pivotal. With consistent and persistent practice you are reinforcing the success that is well within your reach.
3

Achieve

Finally, we will work on integrating these new behaviors, concepts and strategies until you master them and they become part of your identity. When you identify with the new way of being you know you have made changes you can count on.
Family Therapy
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