Family Counseling Services in Maple Glen, PA.

Families of loved ones are often very affected by those with mental health disorders and substance use disorders. There are so many questions and its difficult to know how to support your loved one without enabling. At the same time, your own mental health can take a toll with trying to help them get well. I work individually with families to answer their questions, learn how to properly support their loved ones. I also work with the families of the individuals with mental health or substance use disorders in order to open up lines of communication and re-establish feelings of peace and connection in the family.

Our relationships with family are the most complex we have. There are often unspoken hurt feelings, feeling responsible for one another and pain that is passed from generation to generation. In family therapy, we work on all what your family needs to heal itself from stuck patterns, unhelpful conflict resolution and disconnection. As your therapist, I help your family drop into a space of openness and vulnerability where each member can feel seen and understood by one another.

Being a relationship therapist means that I believe that the systems we live in (especially our families) are key to our mental health. My training gives me perspective on how best to help you fix the damage that has been done within the family, and to help you move forward better than ever. Whether you come in to therapy by yourself, with a partner, or with a family member, we can work on whatever family issues you need to work through.

I create a safe, warm, caring atmosphere so that you and your spouse, partner, and children can share the many stressful conflicts that cause you hurt, anger, depression, bitterness, sadness, helplessness, discouragement, withdrawal, attack, hopelessness and communication conflicts. You may also be experiencing guilt, shame, loss, grief and serious grandparent-parent-child, sibling or career/job) problems. I can help you shift from this state of emotional and mental distress/darkness to the experience of emotional and mental light and can help you learn to communicate and relate more effectively and harmoniously. I can help you learn how to be more appropriately assertive; listen more fro

Families are very interesting and fun to work with. Every family has a unique and powerful strength to survive any obstacle. That strength can be hard to find if it is covered by years of loss, pain, and/or trauma. I offer a systemic, structural family therapy model that helps families communicate more effectively, develop appropriate boundaries, create trusting and fulfilling relationships, and establish healthy attachments in order to make the home environment more enjoyable.

Parents often struggle with how to assist their teens to create a healthy family dynamic . Family members struggle with communicating feelings, expressions, disagreements in a healthy manner. My sessions will assist family members with creating a healthy dynamic consisting of: healthy interactions, support, communication and effective interventions.

Families come in all forms especially in our changing times. The stresses of life show up in our families lives. Families change over time. Dealing with young children is different than a family with teenagers or no children at all. We need to negotiate these changes in our families. At REACH Counseling we believe in the strength of families and helping families to communicate and connect at a deeper level. We specialize in exploring what intergenerational patterns are affecting your family, how you may be dealing with transitions and how you can make your family strong.

As a trained Marriage & Family Therapist and a mother of two, I can help you to navigate the challenges of marriage and parenting. Simply put, we all want to be loved and accepted for who we are. What family does not wish this for everyone involved? Unfortunately, as a result of day to day stressors, ineffective communication, learned defensive behaviors, and a simple lack of know-how, families can fail to accomplish this simple task for one another. Therapy can turn this cycle around by allowing family members to rediscover each other's perspectives and true selves, replacing conflict and misunderstanding, with harmony and compassion.

Each clinician in our practice is trained in family therapy. We provide a variety of family therapy models including parent-child interactional therapy, eco-systemic family therapy, structural family therapy, systems theory therapy, and narrative therapy. Our therapists are responsive to parent concerns and warm, empathetic, and solution oriented with any children in the family. Our goal is to help you heal your family and move forward.

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.

Families are easily injured and yet durable, routinely chipped and cracked: yet resilient and permanent. No matter who injured whom, what caused the chip, or when the crack was first seen, I am here to tell & show you that hope and healing are possible. I have the heart and skills to create a safe holding environment that promotes change. Using humor, metaphors, and being fully present with your family, I work with you to create change in your typical patterns of disagreement and hurt; to improve your communication, to enhance your ability to hear and react differently. Visit me at www.PhillyFamilyLifeCounseling.com and look around. If you sense a compatible fit, or a sense of optimism, pleas....

Family Therapy can be an incredible modality in shifting an entire family from unhealthy dynamics and unhappiness to peace and healthy relationships. Since my primary specialty is Addiction, I see many families with this obstacle. The solution often is not only that the addict needs to change but the entire family system. My passion is working with families and seeing this beautiful transformation come from such despair.

Family counseling is the most powerful form of therapy I know. For years, individuals with social and relationship problems were pathologized and treated alone. With the advent of Family Therapy, individual problems were considered a manifestation of issues through the entire family system. I work with everybody involved with the “patient” in the same room at the same time. Parents and children, brother and sisters have their first chance in years to speak and be heard by others in the family. I maintain order and safety, and engage the family in a balanced and fair manner. The results are often amazing.