Family Therapy...a Flexible Approach
At the Center, we have therapists with degrees in Marriage and Family Therapy. We believe that family counseling can be the most flexible of all therapy approaches. Sometimes it is the entire family all together, sometimes dyads of two family members together...other times it is just parents. We look at the needs of the family and help you get to where you want to be. We have been told that there is a certain safety to a therapy room. A safety that helps families finally talk about what is really troubling them. What a gift to have a place designated to not only talk about what is not working in a relationship, but to also navigate to a place that does.
Family Therapy with Teens or Adults
There is a similarity between family therapy with older family members and couples therapy. With both modalities, the therapist is looking for what the family is really fighting about. Often it sounds like curfew and chores, but is really about something much deeper. Helping families get to this point and helping them learn to communicate at a level that matters can be priceless.
Family Therapy with Teens or Adults
There is a similarity between family therapy with older family members and couples therapy. With both modalities, the therapist is looking for what the family is really fighting about. Often it sounds like curfew and chores, but is really about something much deeper. Helping families get to this point and helping them learn to communicate at a level that matters can be priceless.
Family Therapy with Children
Depending on the age of your family members, family therapy can be just a place to talk and communicate, or it can be a place to do therapeutic activities together.
Families with younger elementary aged children may be asked to participate with their child in a therapuetic craft, or other activity that makes the session more playful and less scary.
Sometimes a structured family session is not the right fit. Maybe the child is too disruptive, has developmental challenges or becomes overstimulated rather quickly. In situations as these, introducing a more playful approach with structured playtime homework may be appropriate.
Depending on the age of your family members, family therapy can be just a place to talk and communicate, or it can be a place to do therapeutic activities together.
Families with younger elementary aged children may be asked to participate with their child in a therapuetic craft, or other activity that makes the session more playful and less scary.
Sometimes a structured family session is not the right fit. Maybe the child is too disruptive, has developmental challenges or becomes overstimulated rather quickly. In situations as these, introducing a more playful approach with structured playtime homework may be appropriate.