Family Counseling Services in Montour, NY.

Family therapy looks at the entire family system—parents, children, extended family members—to identify strengths and problematic behaviours. I collaborate with families on strategies for utilizing their own capabilities for resolving problems, and on developing effective communication and problem-solving skills for preventing conflicts. I specialize in working with families of teenagers, which is an age that can be challenging for both the teenagers and their parents.

Family therapy availability is hard to find in our community right now. Serenity Life is proud to offer it. People seek out family therapy for a multitude of reasons and some most common that we treat are blended families, parent child conflicts, court ordered family therapy, support through divorce/separation, amongst other reasons. Each of our clinicians goes through extensive training in how to work with families and we provide senior education supervision on this topic regularly. We offer talk therapy interventions as well as creative arts therapy family interventions.

We support primary caregivers and parents through difficult moments in their child's development or through life stressors that impact the whole family. We use a combination of parenting education, training you in effective parenting skills, and creative arts therapy with your child to develop a stronger way to communicate effectively with each other.

Each coach in our practice has had experience with family dysfunction or discord and we pride ourselves in helping others through this. Some folks need support overcoming family of origin trauma while others need help managing parenting concerns, blending families, or with re-unification. We pride ourselves in helping with a diverse array of family concerns at Courage to Change. We will meet you in our office, in the home, at schools, or in other community areas. Whatever works for you. We are goal oriented and focus on measurable progress when it comes to bettering family units. We are excited to have experience in this area and offer these hard to find services.

I utilize a structural, experiential, and emotionally-focused approach to family therapy, supporting family members in improving communication, building trust, healing from past conflict, and cultivating greater openness in their relationships. I aim to connect with each member of a family system, holding space for each individual's unique perspective while supporting your shared goals as a family.

Families can carry either unhealed wounds or trauma and/or may have unhealthy communication patterns. These issues can be significantly improved with family therapy. I create a safe space for all parties to share their feelings in a healthy way, without blame, focusing on their own personal experience. I then provide exercises and tools to help them gain understanding of one another and validate one another. This has often been markedly lacking and can be very healing to receive. We go back in time to understand how the current dynamic in the family developed and with that understanding, how it can be shifted into a healthier dynamic.

Family therapy is an active approach that Chris Colasuonno, LCSW-R uses to help bring peace and harmony for the family. There are a lot of dynamics in a family where psychotherapy and counseling can balance out clients and family. A family's culture, dynamics, viewpoint can play a big part in how a family interacts. Many families have issues with mental illness and substance abuse issues that effect each member. Some families benefit from couples therapy, relationship counseling that can lower anger and get individuals to communicate effectively. Chris possesses a lot of experience to balance out a family member's viewpoint using cognitive behavior therapy to find solutions.