Family Counseling Services in Millersburg, OH.

I work with families who are facing a crisis and want help to mentor and counsel them to be able to communicate better, equip them with tools to foster better boundaries, and to facilitate cooperative listening so all members feel heard and understood. Family dynamics are stressful, at times, and not everyone, in a family will like each other all the time, but fostering love and empathy and compassion are very important in the healing process.

We can teach you how to have a peaceful family. Families go through difficult times understanding each other. We can help your family get to the root of the problem. It is important to listen and truly hear what each other feel and think. Everyone has specific emotions and thoughts that are very important to them. We can teach you how to communicate in a positive manner and to solve your own differences before the problem escalates out of control.

At Commitment to Hope, we understand that families include a variety of different personalities. Events both past and present can hurt the dynamics of home. Often, communication is such that arguments ensue and results in fractured relationships. We have the tools and skills to bring harmony and forgiveness to your family. Lines of communication can be re-established as well as feelings of being heard.

Most family therapists inadvertently create more chaos through their well-intentioned efforts to assist a family move through a change process. Why? Brains are inherently deregulated (all of us, may I add) and most talking and dialoguing misses brain-centric problems that need more intensive help. Many times the emotional trauma created by years of solving problems ineffectively can wreak havoc on the brain's parasympathetic nervous system, not ever giving the family a break from flight or fight thinking. Contact us for an innovative neuroscience solution to family dysfunction. Kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

When working with children and youth, the therapist cannot ignore the family system in which the child lives. I work with parents in multiple ways to help support youth in treatment, which may include separate parent sessions, co-parenting sessions, systemic family therapy, or Filial Therapy, a play therapy practice that coaches and guides parents in special play sessions with their child to decrease unwanted behaviors, improve relationships and communication, increase the child's emotional vocabulary, and increase the child's self-esteem.