Family therapy services in 15301: Washington, PA. Relationship and couples counseling.

Families are the cornerstone of society. As such, your family is vitally important to you; it will be to me, too. While families can be a great source of joy, they can also be frustrating, even maddening at times! While there's no such thing as "the perfect family," we can start by trying to understand your family's particular dynamic. If we work together, we'll talk about effective communication, respect, and boundaries, and we'll laugh while we do it, because chances are your kids don't want to be there anyway. Family therapy can be tough enough without it be boring, too. Let's get together and see what we can do to make things better for your family.

If you have resentment, trust issues, infidelity and resistance in your relationship, I offer techniques like group hypnotherapy or couples EMDR where each person can focus on their emotion that they want to work on and do the release exercises with me, as a way to compliment healthy communication or thinking patterns in the relationship. This is not traditional talk therapy at all - it is solution focused, with each person working on processing traumas or burdens that they hold within themselves.

As a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, I know that no one is an island; we are all affected by the relationships we have. Families are complicated. Change brings tension and can feel threatening. An outside perspective is especially important when you are facing challenges you don't know how to address. We'll work together to develop a better understanding of how your family functions and learn new ways to handle conflict, communicate and relate to each other in a healthy way.

Family Therapy provides family members, whether its two members or the entire family, the opportunity to voice their feelings, emotions and concerns. The participants may feel more comfortable sharing their concerns in an atmosphere that is open with a nonjudgmental professional overseeing the discussions. Based on your family’s current circumstances, a unique treatment plan will be created to fit your families specific needs. Commonly used therapies include the following: Structural Family Therapy (SFT) Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Bowen Family Therapy family therapy focuses on treatment of the family system not the symptomatic family member or problem.

Family counseling can be helpful for resolving family disagreements and improving communication. Many families don’t communicate well. Poor communication can leave some family members feeling left out or isolated. Through counseling, a family can learn why they have so many disagreements and how they can resolve a disagreement without resorting to yelling. Families can run into problems when some members make assumptions or think there are unwritten rules that everyone in the family is aware of. When one members doesn’t follow these rules, other family members can get upset. In family counseling, we can discover if your family isn’t getting along because there is a communication problem.