Family Counseling Services in New Franklin, OH.

When working with children and youth, the therapist cannot ignore the family system in which the child lives. I work with parents in multiple ways to help support youth in treatment, which may include separate parent sessions, co-parenting sessions, systemic family therapy, or Filial Therapy, a play therapy practice that coaches and guides parents in special play sessions with their child to decrease unwanted behaviors, improve relationships and communication, increase the child's emotional vocabulary, and increase the child's self-esteem.

We can teach you how to have a peaceful family. Families go through difficult times understanding each other. We can help your family get to the root of the problem. It is important to listen and truly hear what each other feel and think. Everyone has specific emotions and thoughts that are very important to them. We can teach you how to communicate in a positive manner and to solve your own differences before the problem escalates out of control.

Is your family struggling? Unresolved issues? Constant conflict? We can explore the issues that have brought you to this moment, and create goals to heal your family. We can create a safe environment where each voice is heard. You can learn communication skills and conflict resolution strategies and discuss the issues that have created a rift that is pulling your family apart. You CAN reconnect with your family!

I help families identify how they interact with each other, to see and understand their own patterns of behavior. Together we determine which patterns are helpful and which get in the way. We keep interactions which help, and substitute new interactions for those that interfere. Family members talk to each other in the sessions. We replicate familiar, frustrating situations which occur at home. New solutions found in the sessions are then practiced and applied at home.

Most family therapists inadvertently create more chaos through their well-intentioned efforts to assist a family move through a change process. Why? Brains are inherently deregulated (all of us, may I add) and most talking and dialoguing misses brain-centric problems that need more intensive help. Many times the emotional trauma created by years of solving problems ineffectively can wreak havoc on the brain's parasympathetic nervous system, not ever giving the family a break from flight or fight thinking. Contact us for an innovative neuroscience solution to family dysfunction. Kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.