Family therapy services in 34785: Wildwood, FL. Relationship and couples counseling.

Dr. Hobbie has a passion for families and for their challenges in today's culture. With a heart for each member of your family, he desires to hear each voice and highlight each ones gift. He considers how your family can encourage each other, working together as a unit. He wants to assist your family to learn to overcome barriers that cause distance and disharmony. Inviting Dr. Hobbie into the problems your family faces can lead to deeper understanding of each member and a greater sense of unity.

Family therapy can benefit all members of the family to learn how to effectively communicate and to help parents with effective parenting tools to help with difficult behaviors. Co-parenting and blended families are especially vulnerable to problems with communication and healthy relationship building. I use Family Systems therapy to help families with these struggles.

When a family member is struggling with alcohol or drug addiction, the entire family is affected negatively. Communication barriers within families of addicts may cause the addict to withdraw into isolation, leaving their family members feeling frustrated, ashamed, lonely, fearful, depressed, hopeless and angry. The sources of addiction are mental, emotional and psychological in nature, and the addict, as well as their family, need to heal under the care of professionals. At Valiant Recovery, we offer counseling to the families of addicts to help them process the difficult emotions they have confronted, and to create a healthy, supportive environment for the addict to return home to.

My approach to family therapy is simple and effective. I can teach you how to talk to your teen(s) in a way that will be heard and understood. I can show your children the benefits of talking and listening to you. Once we have improved overall communication in the home problems that do come up will be resolved much faster and with noticeably less stress. You can transform your family from a source of frustration to a source of joy. Parenting and raising a family can be tough, but when done well can also be rewarding.

In my years of practice I have been trained in Functional Family Therapy and have worked with many families suffering from conflict within their environment. I now use this training with my own therapy practice to establish healthy communication skills and coping skills between the family and create a strong foundation. I will gain a better understanding of the dynamics in the household and will work with each member to resolve issues. Each individual will benefit by achieving personal growth and utilizing this in their daily interactions.

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.

Jennifer encourages families to bring all family members to therapy sessions. It is helpful to meet all members and hear each person's input on what the problem(s) may be from their individual perspective. Even young children have thoughts on how the family can be better. Jennifer is open to seeing family members on an individual basis in order to facilitate the freedom to speak honestly about how they are feeling.