Family Counseling Services in Clearwater, MN.

What fun it is to have an entire family in my office! From noticing where each person sits, to body language to verbal communication so much can be learned by family members and myself. If you find that your child/children are just great at school and parent teacher conferences bring glowing reports, but your experience with that same child/children at home is a very different story, let's first meet (Mom or Dad) and then bring in the family!

Often we get the most stuck in our thinking and our habitual behavior with the people closest to us. Sometimes families continue habits they wish they could leave in the past. My approach to family therapy is to teach family members how to interrupt stuck patterns, maximize positive interactions, and engage each other from a healthy state of mind. Learning how to reconnect to our health as an individual gives us the key to truly listen to those closest to us, and this listening heals. It also helps us discern what we need to express aloud and what we can let go of. Overall these skills bring us home in our family again.

Families often get stuck in dysfunctional patterns and resentments. Sometimes there is an "event" or an argument that causes a rift in the family and members are forced to take sides. We work with primary and extended families, including children and teens if appropriate. One of the main goals is to get people to operate and communicate from the logical part of their brain rather than the emotional part. This is hard without a trained, experienced, neutral third party in the room. We offer online counseling, delivered to you wherever you are. You can self-register and self-schedule at mnonlinecounseling.com