Family Therapy
Taking care of your closest relationships.
Family life is complicated. Often, members of a family have different temperaments, sensitivities, and communication styles.
Navigating these differences can be challenging and it can be important, even critical, to reach out for guidance to resolve challenges before they grow larger. Family therapy can help adult caregivers, children, and siblings learn to communicate and understand one another. A family therapist can help family members see how they influence one another’s behavior, increasing possibilities for members of the family to grow as persons while staying connected. Creating healthy family relationships can be one of the greatest challenges, and deepest satisfaction, of a lifetime.
When can family therapy help?
Solving conflicts in a relationship--between couples or parents.
Resolving sibling rivalry by helping them get along--especially if they are about the same age or are going through a difficult stage in their life
Supporting a family member who is living with a chronic or long-term mental or physical illness, including depression, and drug and substance use.
Addressing various growth and development challenges or concerns facing children.
Promoting work-life balance, finding workable solutions to job problems that often include stress or challenges at work, and dealing with unemployment
Handling divorce
Navigating difficult times like the loss of a loved one or surviving a natural crisis or accident.
Dealing with sudden change, such as an accident that leaves a family member dependent on others, relocating to a new city, or incarceration of a family member.
Adjusting to a new addition in the family--newborn, foster or adopted child, or a relative from the extended family.
