Counseling for Families

Now more than ever, families are struggling. For many, this fast-paced and increasingly complex world provides almost constant challenge to the integrity and peace of family life. Often families find encouragement and renewal by engaging in a positive and collaborative counseling process.

We can work together to help your family finds its pacing, clarify and solidify its values and repair relationships that may have become strained or ruptured. Families can learn to create their own solutions in ways that respect the needs of the group and the dignity and well-being of each individual within it.

The Adlerian approach engages all family members in the counseling relationship. An important part of that process involves meeting each member individually and coming to understand not only individual issues at play but also roles and alliances within the group and subgroups. A home visit is often helpful in this assessment stage as well as consultations with other pertinent stakeholders – like teachers, in some instances, or even grandparents.

This approach affords a thorough understanding of the family, its members, and the dynamics which underlie the habitual ways in which the family interacts. The counseling intervention respects this uniqueness and can more accurately target the most salient issues.

Over the course of the therapeutic process, families can come to understand what healthy family functioning looks and feels like. Typically this involves growing self-awareness, interacting more collaboratively, and communicating more clearly and respectfully.