Cultivate new insights into your experiences and your relationships.

Reconstruct patterns that may have worked at one point in your life, but are not working now.

Master the skills needed to comfort and nurture yourself during difficult times.

Why Family Therapy?

Family therapy is a mode of psychotherapy that involves all the members of a nuclear or extended family. It may be conducted by a pair or team of therapists.  Although some forms of family therapy are based on behavioral or psychodynamic principles, the most widespread form is based on family systems theory.

This approach regards the family, as a whole, as the unit of treatment, and emphasizes such factors as relationships and communication patterns rather than traits or symptoms in individual members.  Family therapy derived its theoretical foundations from the emergent, cross disciplinary body of knowledge called systems theory. Systems theory proposes that all phenomena are interconnected and cannot be known without reference to their context.

Simply put, there is nothing—no person, no thing—that stands apart from its networks of relationships. Individuals cannot be understood without reference to their past and present relationships.