Family therapy services in 44067: Northfield, OH. Relationship and couples counseling.

Whether you are having trouble with family relationships, troubled teens, addictions, or disabilities that are affecting the whole family system, counseling can help. The first few visits will help to determine which family members are best served. In family therapy, I see the whole family system and each person in the system as both being effected and having an impact in the whole family system. Even an absent member of the family may be having a tremendous impact. If you are wondering if family therapy can help, a therapist can help guide you through the many interwoven concerns.

Is your family struggling? Unresolved issues? Constant conflict? We can explore the issues that have brought you to this moment, and create goals to heal your family. We can create a safe environment where each voice is heard. You can learn communication skills and conflict resolution strategies and discuss the issues that have created a rift that is pulling your family apart. You CAN reconnect with your family!

Families are dynamic, with lots of moving parts. When problems come up it may seem to be just one family member's issue. Often that one person is reflecting trouble within the entire family. Meeting together as a family to discuss what is happening within the family can be a successful way to take a look at the communication and interactions going on and make changes so that everyone is happier.

I help families identify how they interact with each other, to see and understand their own patterns of behavior. Together we determine which patterns are helpful and which get in the way. We keep interactions which help, and substitute new interactions for those that interfere. Family members talk to each other in the sessions. We replicate familiar, frustrating situations which occur at home. New solutions found in the sessions are then practiced and applied at home.

When working with children and youth, the therapist cannot ignore the family system in which the child lives. I work with parents in multiple ways to help support youth in treatment, which may include separate parent sessions, co-parenting sessions, systemic family therapy, or Filial Therapy, a play therapy practice that coaches and guides parents in special play sessions with their child to decrease unwanted behaviors, improve relationships and communication, increase the child's emotional vocabulary, and increase the child's self-esteem.

I work with families who are facing a crisis and want help to mentor and counsel them to be able to communicate better, equip them with tools to foster better boundaries, and to facilitate cooperative listening so all members feel heard and understood. Family dynamics are stressful, at times, and not everyone, in a family will like each other all the time, but fostering love and empathy and compassion are very important in the healing process.