Family Therapy

I have experience working with all types of families: biological, adoptive, blended, step, etc. I work with families of adult children and teens.  

In today’s world with never-ending stressors and unexpected challenges and changes, even the most loving and secure families often struggle. You may be experiencing emotional disconnect, isolation, broken bonds, or problematic patterns that block your family members from accessing support and needed resources within the family. This may show up in distressing cycles of interaction among family members, which can result in attachment insecurity and lack of a secure base from which children can grow and family members can thrive. 

I help families identify negative interactional cycles and help each family member identify their underlying feelings within these cycles. The negative cycle, not the child nor the parent, becomes the focus as the problem and its impact on attachment needs. I help family members identify and express their emotions and needs directly to one another, so that these become part of the family’s awareness and dialogue. Through repeated identification, accessing and reorganizing of emotional experience, new family interactions take shape, which then result in increased security, support, and protection for each family member.  This new emotional experience has the power to promote healing and to foster the resilience your family needs to face the challenges of today’s world.