Family Counseling Services in Frisco, TX.

Family counseling helps family members gain an understanding of disruptive problems and improve communication skills so as to provide new ways of reaching solutions that lead to greater family harmony. Family counseling also enables the various family members to interact with honesty and acceptance and to lessen family habits that cause pain and unhealthy behaviors. Families often come for counseling when they have difficulty resolving an issue, when there is tension in one or more relationships, or perhaps when they are struggling with a particular life transition (birth, death, marriage, divorce, relocation, retirement). Parenting and step-parenting are a common focus of counseling as well

Families are like the baby mobile that hangs over the crib. If you pull one character, the whole thing shakes. Our families are this connected, and if you can begin to understand the roles that everyone plays, you can look at yourself and engage the system differently. Most patterns are predictable in the family (though your family patterns are different than mine) but if you recognize this and can begin to observe yourself acting differently. This will have a huge impact and change the dynamics of the family. Many times we get frustrated when we focus on what we think one member should be doing or not doing, but the change (and the relief) occurs when we look at and change ourselves.

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.

Your family may be the single most important influence on how you live your life. When individual members of a family suffer, often the entire family does. Bringing the family together to look at the family system and decide on new and better ways to function within it, is the value of family therapy. I have been using systems therapy to help families, couples, and individuals achieve better understanding, improve the quality of relationships, and enhance their lives for over 30 years. There is a better way and I would love to help you find it.

Everyone is a part of a family and family work can be an important component in counseling. Changing the behavior of one member of a family causes significant changes in the entire system. Dr. Jackson has found that working with families often brings about behavior changes in the family much quicker than working solely with the identified client. Her work in school settings with families has utilized Family Systems Theory to affect changes within family dynamics that lead clients to experience a more satisfying and engaging family community.

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.

A family can be a delicate and complicated unit, but the single commonality that I have found in most families is an unbreakable, non-negotiable, unconditional love. This love can be the foundation for improving the communication and specific circumstances that are causing hardship in your family. With a little work in therapy, your family can be the one that you have always wanted. Don't give up on that dream.

Having a healthy family with fulfilling relationships is very possible. Its normal to argue and fight with your family members but having a unified family full of meaningful connection is very possible. Relationships are difficult and require a lot of work. Every family is unique and once you are aware of what your family's patterns and dynamics are you can become a strong, healthy, fully connected unit.

All families are different and benefit from counseling that is designed for your family's values, culture and beliefs. I work with all kinds of families including GLBT. One of my specialties is parent education in the areas of technology, social media, addictions, sexual development, bullying and peer issues. Call for a consultation or training session. They grow up so fast; you've got to be ahead of the game.