Family Conflict

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.

Without realizing it, you and your family may all be seeing and trying to solve different parts of the same problem. You may have even begun mistakenly thinking that your loved ones (or you) ARE the problem. Families that haven’t “joined around the problem” experience something best described in the Indian parable, The Six Blind Men and the Elephant. My job is to help you see through each other’s eyes, so you can work together.

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

Our family affects who we are and who we become, both for the better and worse. We learn our vocabulary, habits, customs, and rituals and how to view and observe the world around us. Anyone seeking healthier, closer family relationships can benefit from family therapy.Family therapy is necessary to address family issues and heal a family’s wounds. Does this resonate with your family, consider seeking family therapy. Family therapy can be beneficial on many different levels.

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.

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.

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.

The family that grows together, grows together.

Whether working with an individual or with the whole family, I am experienced at supporting families to work through conflicts by teasing out the ways in which strategies used to survive historical and intergenerational trauma have become habits and patterns of behavior that interfere with closeness, connection, and unconditional support.

Understanding the stages in life development and milestones that are important in helping a person feel whole and an integral part of their family creates a healthy society.

Families are complicated, and you deserve a space to process and sort out your thoughts and feelings. I help clients process emotions about family, set better boundaries, improve communication, strengthen coping strategies, and gain perspective.

Any and all relational dynamics

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.

I help clients navigate through conflict centering their values and helping them recognize system level dynamics.

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.