Family Therapy

Families have many reasons for seeking out therapy. I help my family therapy clients through periods of adjustment, grief, stress, conflict, and more. Families often find it helpful to have a place and time set aside for communicating about their experiences with each other in a constructive way. I help families consider developmental and systemic factors that may be impacting their concerns. I work to facilitate helpful connection and change within families so that members can thrive.

Although many families turn to family therapy looking to "correct" an individual family member (sometimes referred to as an "identified patient"), family therapy is for families who are looking to work through something together as a family, not as individual actors. That is, therapy will focus on the family as a unit and the roles that each member plays in the creation and resolution of conflict, and all concerns of individual family members--emotional responses, patterns of communication, desires to "fix" others in the family, and so on--will be discussed in terms of how they affect the family system.