Family therapy services in 40003: Bagdad, KY. Relationship and couples counseling.

As a Marriage and Family Therapist I believe that family therapy can be extremely beneficial in resolving conflicts within a family system. I look at the entire family system and each person's role in the family. Then we work together to make changes and resolve issues. Family therapy creates an atmosphere where each member can feel safe expressing their feelings and concerns surrounding the presenting issue. There are many reasons a family may decide to start family therapy; such as major life transitions (marriage, divorce, relocation, death of a loved one), abuse, serious illness in family, trauma (car accident, fire, natural disaster), sibling conflict, and parent-child conflict.

Kara and Trisha are both Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists. Working from a systems approach, we focus on the family unit and how the relationships impact each individual and the family itself. We work with individuals separately and together in conjoint sessions to determine the frustrations in the family and help work through those in session together.

There's an expression "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts". Healthy individuals make up healthy families. One individual in the family affects other parts of the family - just as one affected part of our body can affect the other parts of our body. With so much chaos and struggle happening outside of the home, it is so important that the home be stable, safe and a "sanctuary." It is a comfort to have an objective third person in the mix to coach and encourage new patterns and different ways to work through differences and experience healthier happier relationships.

As human beings, we have a natural need and desire to be connected to others. We also have an equally strong need to be an autonomous self. Learning to balance these seemingly oppositional forces can be quite a task, especially when you consider that the primary place we attempt to learn these skills is within the context of our family unit. If your family is experiencing some type of relational upheaval there is a good chance that the system has lost its balance and would benefit from a relational realignment. If your family system is feeling a little out of sorts, please give us a call. At Chrysalis Connections we specialize in helping families rebalance, reconnect and heal.