FAMILY services

BUILDING STRONGER FAMILY BONDS

Our loved ones can often be our greatest source of strength and support, but they also can be a source of conflict in our lives. Conflicts between family members can create feelings of chaos and insecurity for all involved. Family therapy can help improve communication and increase understanding and compassion in your home. Our work together is not about determining who is right or wrong, but about finding ways your family can work together as a team to face challenges. While it can be helpful to learn from past conflicts, we will primarily focus on identifying problematic patterns to create new solutions for the future.

Parent-Child Relationship Therapy

The power of play can also be used to help strengthen the parent-child relationship while enhancing attachment, self-esteem, trust in others, and joyful engagement. Sessions replicate the natural and healthy interaction between parents and children using an approach that is fun, physical, personal, and interactive. These sessions help to create an active and emotional connection between the parent and child, resulting in a changed view of the self as worthy and lovable and relationships that are both positive and rewarding.

Parent Consultation/Education

Sometimes the best way to address difficulties you may be experiencing with your child, or in your family, is through parent consultation sessions. Consultation services can aid in the development of tools and interventions that help you improve your effectiveness in working day-to-day with your child on the emotional or behavioral problems they're facing. Parenting consultation consists of problem solving sessions in which we collaboratively work together to develop a plan to address your child's difficulties that respects and incorporates your family's values and traditions.

FAMILY Reunification Therapy

Children need and deserve a healthy relationship with both parents. However, when there is significant stress and turmoil within the family, especially during high-conflict divorces and separations, this can be extremely challenging. The Reunification Therapist takes on a dual role as therapist for the family and ambassador for the children. Together we will work to identify the factors contributing to the child’s separation from the estranged parent while working on communication, rebuilding trust, and the healthy expression of feelings with the goal of establishing healthy relationships between the child and both parents.

Therapeutic supervised parenting time

The purpose of supervised visitations is to enable an ongoing relationship between the non-custodial parent and child by impartially observing their contact in a safe and structure environment. Another purpose of supervised visitations is to allow a safe and educational learning experience for the non-custodial parent. Therapeutic supervised visitation programs, are able to intervene and correct the behavior, therefore teaching the parent appropriate parenting skills by using a mental health professional. Although therapeutic supervised visitations can be a part of Reunification Therapy, they should not be used in place of it. Therapeutic supervised visitations, unlike reunification therapy, does not assist in the long term goal of achieving a healthy relationship between the non-custodial parent and the child. Supervised visitations is normally a short-term practice.

Court involved therapy

Court-involved therapists are mental health professionals who provide therapeutic services to family members involved in child custody or juvenile dependency Court processes. Family and juvenile Court cases involving therapeutic services introduce unique factors and dynamics that require consideration in the treatment process. Both the treatment process and information provided to the therapist are likely to be influenced by the family’s involvement in a legal process.