Family therapy services in 27011: Boonville, NC. Relationship and couples counseling.

The family is the foundation of our society. It is so easy, however, for the family unit to lose focus and fall into a myriad of problems. Sometimes the need is to involve the whole family in counseling to understand the unique dynamics that each member brings. Today there also has to be strong focus on blended families since it is quite prevalent in our society.

I have been involved in family therapy since I began counseling 30 years ago. For many years, I worked with parents and their children emphasing a particular sibling as the identified client. Lately, I am working with parents and their adult child as the identified client. Client's range from 16 years of age and older. I see family work as contextual therapy in that the family is impacted by culture, spirituality, community systems, relatives, friends, and acquaitences. Often the identified client becomes the scapegoat for the issues of the family. Effective therapy considers these issues in the light of the family system and its greater context, thereby eliciting balance and wholeness.