Family Therapy
When one member of a family is struggling with intense emotions, trauma, or addiction, the entire family system is affected. It can feel like you're constantly walking on eggshells, caught in a cycle of frustration, worry, and miscommunication. My goal in family therapy is to help you break that cycle. Family therapy can help improve communication, facilitate conflict resolution, and reduce frustration.
There are many benefits to participating in therapy, such as
- getting what you really want in relationships
- enhanced ability to identify and express how you are feeling and needing
- more considerate and respectful relationships
- more ease, peace, and time for play
- navigate a loved one's substance use and learn how to support their recovery, without losing yourself.
The purpose of family therapy is to help the family be more happy, healthy, and harmonious. In family therapy, I guide the people I serve to learn how to ask for what you really want. I acknowledge each person's feelings and needs using an approach involving more empathy and authenticity. The approach involves slowing down the pace of conversation to make sure that each person is fully heard, so they have a felt-sense that what they are needing really matters.
It can be incredibly painful when a young person you love is struggling with irritability, defiance, or anger. Often these behaviors are a sign of underlying pain and not having the tools to handle it. When doing family therapy with young people, I find that often, a change at attitude is needed: from unwilling to unable. I encourage family members to be firm in implementing expectations and rules yet flexible. Often skills in frustration tolerance, self soothing, and emotional regulation are needed. I incorporate active, authentic relating with young people to strengthen the therapeutic alliance. This relationship allows for direct feedback and advice when needed.
There are many benefits to participating in therapy, such as
- getting what you really want in relationships
- enhanced ability to identify and express how you are feeling and needing
- more considerate and respectful relationships
- more ease, peace, and time for play
- navigate a loved one's substance use and learn how to support their recovery, without losing yourself.
The purpose of family therapy is to help the family be more happy, healthy, and harmonious. In family therapy, I guide the people I serve to learn how to ask for what you really want. I acknowledge each person's feelings and needs using an approach involving more empathy and authenticity. The approach involves slowing down the pace of conversation to make sure that each person is fully heard, so they have a felt-sense that what they are needing really matters.
It can be incredibly painful when a young person you love is struggling with irritability, defiance, or anger. Often these behaviors are a sign of underlying pain and not having the tools to handle it. When doing family therapy with young people, I find that often, a change at attitude is needed: from unwilling to unable. I encourage family members to be firm in implementing expectations and rules yet flexible. Often skills in frustration tolerance, self soothing, and emotional regulation are needed. I incorporate active, authentic relating with young people to strengthen the therapeutic alliance. This relationship allows for direct feedback and advice when needed.
