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
- peace and more ease at home
- 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 of full authenticity based on Marshall Rosenburg's Nonviolent Communication. 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. I encourage eye contact, so more facial expressions and gestures are felt.
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, a developmental delay in handling frustration, or an undiagnosed mood disorder. 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 am strengths-based and focus on person-centered reasons for change, such as desire for more harmony, family values, and time for play. I incorporate active, authentic relating to develop the therapeutic relationship 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
- peace and more ease at home
- 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 of full authenticity based on Marshall Rosenburg's Nonviolent Communication. 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. I encourage eye contact, so more facial expressions and gestures are felt.
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, a developmental delay in handling frustration, or an undiagnosed mood disorder. 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 am strengths-based and focus on person-centered reasons for change, such as desire for more harmony, family values, and time for play. I incorporate active, authentic relating to develop the therapeutic relationship with young people to strengthen the therapeutic alliance. This relationship allows for direct feedback and advice when needed.
