FAMILY THERAPY

Parent & Child Family Therapy

The process of family therapy emphasizes the importance of understanding the family as greater than the sum of its parts. By doing so, each available family member is encouraged to take part in the therapy process by attending sessions consistently. The first, and most important, shift is from the perspective that one person is a cause of distress to the acknowledgement that each and every family member has an impact on the dynamics that have resulted in distress.

Family therapy can involve rotating meetings between different dyads within the family and whole family meetings depending on the goals outlined and presenting concerns. Nuclear, blended, two-household, and more types of families with children can benefit from being intentional about working through differences and building guidelines for being supportive.

The team approach, within our practice, allows for a whole family supportive experience. For instance, parents of children involved in child therapy are supported by either the child therapist or by clinicians within the practice that can support the parenting process.

Parent Coaching

Parent coaching provides strategies for managing concerns such as behavioral outbursts, emotional regulation, social issues, and more. Parent coaching can involve discussing the concerns, symptoms, or behaviors of a child to identify the best way to have a parent approach these. It can also involve talking through the developmentally appropriate recommendations for a child, sibling dynamics, or coparenting differences.

This is an important element of therapy with children and can be combined with, or done separately, from other models of individual child therapy.

Two-Household Parenting Support

Our practice offers a unique and evidence-based approach to assisting children and families impacted by separations. Following the Directed Co-Parenting Intervention structure and applying it to be adjunctive to individual child therapy for children affected by divorce, we can holistically support children and caregivers.

Adult Family Support

The process of family therapy between adult children and their parents, and even generations beyond, involves a focus on reconnection and relational support. Families who may have drifted apart due to events or differences can benefit from working with a clinician to mediate these issues and neutralize negative feelings.

We work to support each member of the family towards a goal of positive reunification or continued relationship strengthening and growth.