Family Therapy

Are you tired of not getting along with your family members? Is your blended family not blending as nicely as you’d hoped for? Would you like to have a better understanding and relationship with your aging parent, sibling, child or teenager or other family members?

Family therapy can help you break old patterns, rebuild trust, and create the relationships you've always wanted and I'm here to guide you through it.

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Is your family going through a divorce or experienced a traumatic event that you would like to navigate and heal through together?

Family Therapy is a special form of treatment where I focus on repairing and strengthening the entire family (or a specific family pair) as a system, rather than focusing on a specific individual of the family.

Family pairs are two members within a family experiencing rupture and in need of repair: siblings, a child and parent, an adult child and parent, a stepchild and stepparent, and more.

I draw from solution-focused, cognitive behavioral, strategic, and family systems approaches to address current challenges and heal trauma, wounds, misunderstandings, and other disruptions within the family dynamic.

Working together as a system, we focus on improving communication, regulating emotions, shifting behaviors, deepening understanding, and rebuilding trust. Along the way, your family will develop lasting skills in communication, problem-solving, and conflict de-escalation.

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The goal of family therapy is to create better functioning relationships between family members by helping them find more effective ways to work through challenges together. With the right tools and support, families can move from a place of tension and disconnection to one of greater harmony, understanding, and closeness not just in your sessions, but in your everyday life at home.

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Co-Parenting Therapy

If you and your co-parent are unable to work together collaboratively or communicate positively about your shared children, then the Shared Parenting Support Program (SPSP) might be the right fit where we will work together to put aside anger, resentment, old grudges, and all those accumulated negative feelings that get in the way of being effective co-parents.

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No matter how difficult your relationship with your co-parent, your children need you both to find a better way.

Parenting Support Program (SPSP)

Through the program, you will have the opportunity to learn how to communicate as co-parents, putting aside your anger and conflict in the best interest of your children.

The communication skills you will learn will reduce the amount of time you talk to each other and at the same time will provide a structured, safe way to communicate.

The program is very structured and requires each co-parent, and possibly stepparents, to attend 8-12 weekly 50-minute sessions. If you have been involved in family court or mediation, it is important that custody court decisions are finalized when beginning the program and you do not have intentions on returning to court during the program to give a sense of trust and stability while working together through the Shared Parenting Support Program.

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Upon completion of the program, you each will receive a Certificate of Completion that can be provided to court if co-parenting therapy was court mandated. It is important to note that I am not an officer of the court and will not attend court or provide any other information on either co-parent’s behalf to the court.

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