Strengthen relationships with your family
Family Therapy
A healthy family fulfills deep needs for tenderness, sharing and love, and promotes individual development and maturity. When a family is healthy, individuality flourishes and thrives within it. However, when our spouse or child is upset or troubled, there exists a stress that affects all members of the family.
I have extensive experience in working with clients of diverse backgrounds – including gay, lesbian, inter-racial, and transgender clients – with relationship challenges, diversity issues and cultural differences, as well as with people seeking help with anger, feelings of loss of control, depression, addiction issues, anxiety and panic. Our own emotional maturity is tested within the relationships we have with our family members.
I work both with family members as a whole group and with individuals or components of the family in order to promote and improve safe and clear communication.
I also help parents develop the skills to successfully negotiate specific stages of child and adolescent development and importantly, to relate to their children in ways that are in accord with the different stages of their lifespan.
Adoption
The process of adoption can be very challenging, both financially and emotionally. The concern of whether the adoption itself will be successful often carries with it a fair amount of uncertainty that adoptive parents must accept. I provide support and education for the adoptive triad of biological parents, adoptive parents, and adult adoptees. Allow me to help and guide you through the various aspects of adoption.
“Should I/we adopt?”
“Should we have on-going contact with the birth or surrogate mother?”
″I was adopted and wonder how it has affected my life.″
″Should I look for my birth parents?”
“Will I be accepted or not?”
“What are my motives for searching for my biological origins?”