Emotional, social, cultural, and behavioral challenges can have an impact on the entire family system.
Family therapy can be a helpful resource to heal loving attachments, improve family dynamics, implement coping skills, and learn more effective communication strategies.
Some situations that may benefit from family therapy include:
Family experiencing loss, illness, or grief
Conflict between parents or divorce affecting children
Children or parents are exhibiting behavior issues or emotional dysregulation
Sibling conflicts
Communication challenges
Attachment Wounds
Adverse Religious, Racial, or Cultural Experiences
How can family therapy help?
Family therapy can aid in building communication skills and help family members understand each other's perspectives, deeper emotions, and innermost fears. During therapy sessions, each member has the opportunity to improve ways of communicating and listening, as well as developing techniques to de-escalate arguments while making sure that everybody is being heard. Parents also engage in self-reflection to understand how their families of origin and inter-generational trauma may be impacting their current family system and patterns.
How is it accomplished?
Family therapy may be used in addition to individual or couples counseling. The goal is to improve relationships, strengthen healthy attachments, learn new communication skills, and engage in conflict resolution. Families are a unique ecosystem, and issues affecting one member of a family may affect the whole unit and interpersonal dynamics. Additional benefits of this type of counseling are that in some instances, the sessions can heal emotional or attachment wounds in a relatively short period of time. We will meet all together, individually, and in parent/child subgroups as needed, all in service of healing the family as a whole.
Our therapeutic approach is culturally responsive and trauma-informed. We will co-create a personalized support plan leveraging these modalities and tools:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Existential Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
