Family Conflict

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.

You can strengthen your family ties by understanding conflict patterns and how to deal with them successfully. Often there are definite patterns that happen over and over. Once we have a good understanding of these sequences, we can figure out how to change them. Sometimes a pattern happening today is related to past traumas, which can be faced and overcome. Ultimately you will find yourself giving and receiving the love you always wanted in your life.

The family unit may experience significant stress because of work, school, or the personality differences of various family members. In addition, as children grow and enter new phases in their lives, parents and children may need help in a safe environment to explore ways of coping with these changes. Our clinicians work with families and/or with a parent and a child to help them learn how to navigate transitions, communicate effectively, and develop an empathic, secure connection.

Parents often unknowingly bring their own issues into their children's lives. And at the same time, children come into this world with their own temperament & are impacted by their own experiences that can contribute to family dynamics. I help family members truly see, hear, know & understand one another. I help parents develop healthy empathic relationships with their children, which helps the children feel loved, supported & respected. The result is greater harmony and ease in the family.

I have completed training to work with families and provided family therapy for over a year.

Working in family treatment for almost four years. Assisting families to repair relationships and offer problem solving strategies. Emphasis in family therapy in graduate school.

Our work in Family Law has equipped us with expertise in working with interpersonal violence and other family conflict. We are here to help you manage the significant challenges in a relationship with IPV and assist you on issues of safety and restructuring your boundaries as you move through the process. This includes working with parents and children in improving their relationships and with parents on strengthening their abilities to co-parent.

Any and all relational dynamics

Families are marked by periods of transition and change, which are often painful, intense, and have the potential to crack the foundation of solid relational grounding and connection. I collaborate with families to explore new meanings and make sense of challenges, to better hear and understand one another's perspectives, and to discover ways to move forward despite their shared problems. I lean heavily on systemic family therapy models to help families move toward growth and resiliency.

Are your identities (e.g., gender identity, sexual orientation) causing friction or distance in family relationships? Have you felt torn between loyalty and seeking autonomy from your family? Have complicated family relationships caused longstanding wounds? Are you a "cycle-breaker" in the family? Are you needing help navigating very different values and perspectives held by family members? Together, we can explore the nuances and complexities of your circumstances, and help you find alignment.

In my role as a family-based therapist at Child Guidance Resource Centers, I served the Philadelphia community through intensive home- and community-based family therapy for children and adolescents displaying social, emotional and behavioral disorders and for their families from 2019-2022. I am deeply committed, personally and professionally, to delivering culturally competent treatment to underserved populations in the community.

Some of my favorite work to do is family therapy, where everyone is committed to understanding one another, and transforming their relationships toward connection and equity. I particularly enjoy working with parents and children to resolve pain points in the relationship and develop new ways of communicating.

As a family therapist I have dealt with family conflict and marital conflict of varying intensity. That has included families where conflict has led to violence and families dealing with issues of substance abuse and of infidelity. My background has included a number of years working with and consulting to programs working with families referred by social service departments .

Relationships can be tricky things sometimes, but they can also be the most valuable thing in our lives. I am skilled in working with families from a systems perspective to access the resources they need to meet basic needs of families, then build a strong relational foundation on which positive and fulfilling relationships can be built and maintained. From sibling friendships, to partnerships, to parent-child relationships, I want to help you navigate the waters to thrive.

I have worked with families that have high conflict. I have worked with the children of divorce and the parents with co-parenting.

Many times people who come to therapy are one of the strongest people in the family. Sometimes individuals come in to cope with family conflict but I also am welcoming to invite the family into the session. Family is complicated because in many ways we can love them but they can also cause suffering. I think it is helpful to explore the bigger picture into why families can go through strains or distress.

I am trained in Emotion-Focused Family Therapy.