Family Therapy
Challenges between parents and teenagers
A cousnelor can help familes share their point-of-voews in a safe and caring enviornment. Everybody in the family learns to share their needs in positive ways and everybody learns to listen to the needs of others.
Challenges with the extended family members
Are the in-laws constanly in your life? Does your spouse ignore when his family treats you with lottle respect. Is your mother-in-law invalidating you? Your spouse can’t separate from his family of orignin. A cousnelor can help you wiht these issues and more.
Blended Families
Yours, mine and ours. How do we set new structures and roles? How do we help everybody involved adapt? How do we support those who are still morning the previous ? and Who parents who, what and how?
Learn to co-parent.
Family Secrets
Family Secrets are considered an important source of anxitey within families. With the help of a counselor, you can learn the difference between what is private and what is a secret; you can explore ways to appropriately disclose the secret to your family; you can evaluate the challenges that can come up after a disclosure; and you can estimate the reaction of those invovled and plan a response and prevent safety issues.
Adoptive Families
A counselor can help you find ways to understand and address the unique challenges that impact adoptive families.
Grandparents as parents
A cousnelor can help you with what considerations should be keep in mind if we find ourselves raising our children’s children? What can granparents do in order to get a different outcome? How to parent the adult child who has left the parenting of their chidlnre to the kids granparents.