Family Counseling
Why seek Family Counseling?
- Difficulties with family roles
- Parenting help
- Kids not listening
- Mixed family struggles
- Parenting differences
- Conflict
- Communication
- Lack of connection
- Etc.
What is Family Counseling?
This type of counseling is similar to couples counseling. However, it is targeted toward solving family relationship issues. The therapist works to ensure therapy is a safe environment. In this kind of environment you are free to explore, examine, and work on family issues.
In family therapy the therapist works to reestablish healthy roles, explore primary emotions and create emotionally corrective experiences.
The therapist will cultivate feelings of care and understanding to help heal the family and to foster a healthy therapeutic alliance.
The core of a good relationship is care and understanding exchanged through reciprocity. At times individual work may be required before/during counseling. If your struggles are found to be individual in nature, individual counseling may be recommended.
Who can benefit from Family Counseling?
Any family can benefit from couples counseling. Though it is much more effective with families with older children. If your family is having struggles there is a good chance family counseling can help reduce those issues. By redefining roles, having emotionally corrective experiences, and exploring primary emotions, families can overcome barriers and build better communication. If your family is struggling, family counseling might be right for you.
What you might learn in Marriage and Family Therapy.
I focus on how both insight and experience and lead to lasting change.
I help you explore “core hurts” or primary emotions to help you better understand your thoughts and behaviors.
I not only help you produce change, I seek to help you understand that process of change so you can replicate that change on your own in the future.
Thoughts and behaviors are the back bone of our mental health. By helping you understand and change your thoughts and behaviors you will be able to overcome just about any struggle.
I discuss models such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Understanding your needs and how they effect your thoughts and behaviors can help to achieve lasting change.
We often get stuck in a ineffective homeostasis as a family. Through understanding the cycles and processes maintaining that homoeostasis we are better able to break free and produce meaningful change.
I like using metaphors and analogies to help discuss complex topics by breaking them down and making them easier to understand.
I will help you and your loved ones reduce conflict through the expression of “core hurts” and emotionally corrective experiences.
Through the years I have founds that the best tools to build better relationships is through fostering feelings of care and understanding.
As a LMFT I focus on systems theory or how everything effects everything. By understanding the system as a whole we are better able to produce change.
There are too many possible ways therapy can help to list. If you have questions about whether or not I can help, reach out and contact me. I would be happy to answer any of your questions.
