COUPLES THERAPY
FAMILY THERAPY
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Families naturally face challenges in balancing the needs of all the family members. Healthy and well functioning families can work through issues together and emerge stronger. Sometimes families develop unhealthy patterns of relating and interacting. These often start as a way of dealing with a problem and then reach a point where they no longer work yet the family remains stuck in this pattern of relating and interacting. Family therapy can help families explore the ways they relate to each other and help them develop tools to overcome challenges together, strengthen relationships with one another, and create a supportive family environment.
Individual therapy can assist individuals in dealing with a variety of issues. The perspective of the family therapist in working with an individual is to use a systems approach and consider your issues in the context of the relationships in your life. Your family-of-origin relationships have influenced the person that you are and have helped shape the ways you relate to others. Viewing the individual in the context of the family systems they have come from and the current relationships they are involved in can be extremely helpful in exploring your individual issues and helping you find the healing, serenity and peace that you seek.
Couples relationships are often our most intimate relationship in life. They can be the most supportive relationships we have. At the same time since we are often our most vulnerable in these relationships they can present us with our greatest challenges. Couples therapy helps couples, whether they are married or not, understand and resolve conflicts and improve their relationship. Couples therapy provides couples with the tools they need to communicate better, negotiate differences, problem solve and even argue in a healthier way. Couples therapy can be short term to assist you in getting through a crisis. Couples therapy may also be needed for several months, particularly if your relationship has greatly deteriorated. Couples therapy is about improving and restoring your relationship.
