Family Conflict

As an expert in family and couples therapy, family relationships is such an important part of a clients progress. Family can be such a complex life area and exhausting to explore but also needed in order to be independent and reach self-fulfilling autonomy. My speciality is in addressing family conflict, communication, and trauma through the use of a more structural framework, a more emotionally focused approach or unpacking stress that family members have brought into your life vicariously.

Family often holds deep heartache, blessing, and complexity. Family relationships also unfold over a lifetime and with different arcs. Family work includes: —Exploring family of origin dynamics for deeper understanding of your experience and formative impact —Issues of closeness and separation, boundaries and related conflicts —Navigating navigating conflict or estrangement in family relationships in the present

I am trained (and continue to train in ) Emotionally Focused Family Therapy. I specialize in helping families identify what is stopping them from communicating with each other vulnerability and authentically and help families learn to connect with each other. I have spent much of my career working with a variety of family dynamics helping parents and their children (as well as adult children and parents) discover their cycle of disconnection as well as identify how to reconnect from the heart.

I have extensive experience working with families in family therapy, particularly families with adolescents. I am trained and certified in providing Brief Strategic Family Therapy, an evidenced based therapy modality that helps families identify the root of the issues and challenges more quickly in order to allow families to grow through strengthening relationships, building connections and creating long lasting change.

Family conflicts are the second biggest issue that I see when helping clients of the LGBTQ community. I teach my clients to identify the issues that they are having within their family and help them explore the root causes of these issues. We work together to help you learn new ways of communication based on your family interactions and also teach you conflict resolution skills to help you overcome your current family conflict and future concerns.

By using systems thinking, I consider every person's perspective in session and seek the chance to find common ground between you and those you love. Specific interests: mothering, fathering, parenting, blended families, co-parenting during and after conflict, fictive kinship/presumed family, family building (child free, birth, infertility, surrogacy, adoption), and family stressors around coming out/disclosing

Families are complicated, but I believe that we can all develop healthier relationships and thereby improve our quality of life. I will help you notice and change the patterns that are keeping you stuck and equip you with concrete skills to change your relationships.

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

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the unspoken and agreed-upon relationship/marital norms. For many of us, couples who spent all day at work are now spending most of their time working from home. For many families, couples who are not privileged to work from home are coping with the stress of the added risk of contracting COVID-19. Many of us are also struggling with our family income being negatively impacted due to the pandemic.

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 worked with numerous families to help establish healthy communication skills. My goal is to help families learn to relate to each other in ways that does not damage the family bond and to help create better patterns of interacting.

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.

Throughout life, it's common for our own cultures to diverge from the cultures that were given to us by our families. And often, this process can be accompanied by pain in the relationship. If you are feeling lost about how to happily and peacefully exist in your family system, we can work through it together in therapy.

I am fascinated by families and I always have been. It was the first therapy that I started practicing as a clinician. Families are incredibly complex. The tendency of a family system is to maintain homeostasis, in other words, resist change. The trouble with this is that the systems surrounding the family are always changing, as are the individuals in the family. I can help your family adapt to changing roles, rules and challenges.

In my work with victims of partner abuse, I deal with the traumatic effects of divorce/separation, co-parenting, relationship/marital issues, infidelity and family of origin conflict on a daily basis. I also have a lot of experience in the field of adoption/foster care, and working with the adolescent/young adult population.

Family often holds deep heartache, blessing, and complexity. Family relationships also unfold over a lifetime and with different arcs. Family work includes: —Exploring family of origin dynamics for deeper understanding of your experience and formative impact —Issues of closeness and separation, boundaries and related conflicts —Navigating family relationships in the present

The focus of my graduate program (Master of Social Work) was family systems. I use Family Systems Theory as a guiding pillar of my work. Our families shape so much about who we are, they are bound to impact the way we think and interact with the world around us. There doesn't need to be conflict for someone to need a listening ear or outside perspective.