Family Therapy
Family Therapy
- Do you and your spouse disagree on how to raise your children?
- Has a divorce or stepparent situation created conflict in your family?
- Does your child act out or refuse to listen?
- Are you concerned about teen drinking or substance abuse?
- Do other relatives who live with you make your life more difficult?
- Would you like a less stressful home?
What is Family Therapy?
Family therapy is a very efficient and time-effective approach for whatever is challenging in your family right now. It is often faster and more effective than individual therapy because it focuses on relationships rather than the individual.
You can think of it as “relationship therapy” applied to you and your loved ones. Often, all members of the family are asked to meet together in the therapy sessions. Sometimes, it is more effective to work with subgroups of the family separately.
I generally work with the parent(s) first to develop the goals and format for the therapy, and then the rest of the family is integrated into the therapeutic process.
What Can Family Therapy give you?
- New skills for parenting you can apply right away
- Awareness of your parenting strengths and weaknesses, and how you act in a relationship
- New confidence and skills to use in your relationships with your partner and other family members
- The ability to talk about how you feel more easily with each other
- The opportunity to learn more about yourself and how you relate to your loved ones
- A new way to understand your family system and family dynamics
- Specific problem-solving techniques you can apply to challenging behaviors or family issues
- A roadmap for your personal growth
- A way to understand and work with your family expectations in order to avoid painful interactions and create loving and healing ones
- A new appreciation of the key elements of successful relationships, and how to create them more effectively in your family