“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

                                                                                       -Thich Nhat Hanh

Any change in the family can feel destabilizing. Issues and challenges can be experienced as slightly unsettling to deeply disturbing.

I attend to the interactions between each one of you in your family and your family system as a whole. Your family therapy may include everyone in your family or just part of your family, according to your unique needs and goals. I work with a diverse range of family structures including adoptive families, single parent households, blended families, families with two dads or two moms, and families with grandparents, aunts, uncles, or other family members in the parental role.

Families can experience difficulties with:

• Communication 
• Conflict
• Divorce 
• Step Family/Blended Family Issues
• Parenting
• Behavioral Issues
• Financial Issues 
• Loss and Grief 
• Addiction 
• Domestic Violence
• Mental or Physical Illness
• Past Traumatic Events

Even happy events can be challenging including:

• Weddings 
• Birth of a Child or Grandchild
• Job Promotions 
• Children Moving In or Out

My Approach to Helping Your Family

Your family is a unique social system with its own structure and patterns of communication which are determined by many things, including the beliefs, values, and personalities of each of your family members, including your extended family.  As a result of these variables, your family develops its own unique and powerful personality, which affects everyone in your family.

I  provide you with effective skills and tools to help your family:

• get through stressful times together 
• improve communication 
• resolve conflicts 
• recognize and appreciate each other’s unique gifts, talents and strengths
• increase your sense of safety and belonging
• build trust, acceptance and understanding
• heal painful feelings from the past 
• deepen family connections