Family & Marriage Therapy
Appointments are 60 minutes.
Family Therapy
Family therapy is often done in conjunction with treatment of an individual client. This may include sessions with parent(s), with children, grandparents, in-laws, siblings, etc. The session's focus is to engage in a relational process that helps mutual understanding, communication, care, set appropriate boundaries, identify where feelings or behaviors get stuck and hurt the relationship, and to figure out how to move through it and make the relationship work better. This process can be a single session or can be a series of sessions - or used as needed.
Relationship/Marital Therapy
Relationship/Marital Therapy is conducted with two people engaged in a romantic relationship. Commitment levels are assessed, the developmental stage of the individuals/and the developmental stage of the relationship is understood. Couples get help understanding the nature of their attraction, nature of their conflict, "stuck" points, similar and different value systems, individual goals and mutual goals, what is working and what is not working. Therapy uses various techniques such as identifying individual perceptions and emotional responses, identifying distressing patterns, connective communication, emotional regulation, problem solving, and communicating care and compassion. This process can be a single session or can be a series of sessions - or used as needed.
Parenting Therapy
The goal of Parenting Therapy is to gain a better understanding of yourself as a parent in relation with your child (children) considering all the different variables at play. Work is done to understand the developmental stage and needs of the child, his/her feeling expression, behavioral expression, when to engage and when not to engage power struggles, discipline needs and styles, how the child effects the emotions of the parent and what information that gives to the parent about themselves and the child. Essentially, it is to figure out what is working and what is not working (and to correct it) to help build and maintain appropriate connected attachment to the child (children) at whatever developmental stage they are at currently.
Co-Parenting Therapy
The goal of Co-Parenting Therapy is to gain understanding and learn how to help support and care for the child (children) through the adjustment of a parental separation/divorce situation, and how to parent from a new, separate household from the other parent. These sessions can be done with both parents present, separate sessions but in conjunction, or with one parent doing their best to help the child adjust, grieve, and transition through this life change.