Family Conflict

Are you struggling to be seen or heard in your family? Do you wish you had more positive ways of interacting with your loved ones? Would you like to find new strategies for parenting your child or connecting with your teen? My work with families centers around reducing conflict and deepening connections throughout the family system by helping increase family members' capacities to communicate wants, needs, and feelings and helping create a family culture of openness and respect.

Launching young adults, parenting teens, parenting children, parenting adult children, empty nesting, financial conflicts, school conflicts, household management, defiant children, Aspergers and autism-spectrum disorders, ADHD/ADD, co-parenting Also specialize in conflicts around extended families and family businesses.

I have a lot of experience helping families increase their ability to communicate and feel a greater degree of connection. Often, once we understand and acknowledge the valid places our feelings are coming from, this enables the conversation to turn from conflict to communication. Everyone has a role to play and some valuable to bring to the table. My role is to help build on the connection that is already there

I have worked with family units who have struggled with being able to effectively communicate their emotions and concerns within the family unit. I will work to remain a neutral party that can facilitate navigation of these complex communication issues and build a plan to increase the effectiveness of communication and emotional regulation.

I believe that we are made up of the stories of our pasts, but that our pasts do not freeze us in time. My hope is that we can examine how our past experiences, particularly those from our childhood, affect our lives today. From here we can move forward and find ways to integrate and heal from our past.

I believe when family members come to therapy one thing is lacking... Communication! While I was in graduate school, I was taught to work with the whole family system not just one family member at a time. When the whole family unit can be heard in a safe place, healing can begin.

Intimate relationships that are not safe, trusting or respectful make it difficult to maintain your sense of feeling valued. Any compulsion, addiction, or dysfunction in the family, when the focus is on one member affects all. It may be a serious illness, recent death, or huge life stressor that creates upheaval and discord in the family. This can result in estrangement, bickering, loneliness, and isolation. Healing is possible and often can help develop stronger bonds.

Making decisions about caring for an older parent, sibling, or other family member can be loaded with emotion and challenge. I love being a part of facilitating these hard (and necessary) conversations between family members. Whether it's focused on a move to residential care, or end-of-life decisions, I bring a calm, organized, gentle nudging presence to these conversations.

Family therapy can help you cultivate healthier relationships, improve communication, resolve conflicts, and navigate ruptures. I have significant experience and expertise helping families by developing new patterns of communicating. Families leave therapy with a new template for really listening to each other, tuning in to the ways they show up for each other. I will be there to support you every step of the way as you're doing some really hard and fruitful work together!

We all struggle in our families to one degree or another. When this feels overwhelming it may be time to change our approach. Together we can create new strategies for navigating complex relationships with our relatives both chosen and biological.

We are trained to consider presenting issues from a contextual family systems lens and are always considering complex intergenerational trauma and other family dynamics in our work with all clients- whether you come to therapy with your family or as an individual.

Family of origin pain can feel like the deepest wound, chosen family conflict can feel like a never-ending complexity. I work with families to strengthen connection, communication, and build shared values and understanding.

One of the most challenging things to manage in life is divorce. Using systemic family therapy I specialize in processing the uncoupling of divorce, the peaceful, safe transition for children, navigating co-parenting afterwards, and the blending of new families. I specialize in protective techniques when dealing with high conflict individuals who continue to wage war post-divorce.

I believe we are hardwired to seek affirming and intimate bonds with others. Conflict with parents, partners, children, siblings, and extended family can cause significant stress and unhappiness. I can assist in developing communication skills, healthy boundaries, conflict resolution techniques, and relationship scripts. The goal is to establish relationships with others that are fulfilling and allow for personal growth.

With a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy, I have specialized training in assessing and providing insight into patterns and cycles that can keep relationships stuck

Helping couples work through couple conflict and family conflict.