Family therapy is for families who want to build a legacy they are proud of, but where disagreements, stress, disconnection, and resentment keep getting in the way. They are parents overwhelmed by how to connect with and guide their teenager. They are families struggling to support their young adult as they wrestle with college and employment. They are multi-generational families caught divided by opinions, resentments, politics, or religion — and can’t seem to find a way back to enjoying each other.

You may recognize yourself in some of these: resentment and cut-off relationships, sleepless nights worrying about your children, your house feeling more like a warzone than a home, escalating family conflict, estranged relationships, or enabling irresponsible behavior you don’t know how to stop.

What you really want is to be able to enjoy gathering as a family again. You want to feel competent in how you parent your children. You want the people you love most to actually feel like your people.

• Therapy for Parenting: There are few things more rewarding and more painful than parenting your children, no matter how old they are — I help parents assess how they were parented, balance connection and expectations with their children, and develop a lasting relationship with them.
• Therapy for Family Reconciliation: Conflict, resentment, and grudges can feel like the permanent state of a family, but they don’t have to be — families who are willing to process their struggles together can find common ground, heal relational ruptures, and bond in ways they never thought possible.

I use a combination of Family Systems therapy, Attachment science, and Relational Psychodynamic therapy. Family Systems therapy values the context you were born into, the relational patterns you learned, and the ways you can heal within the context of relationship. Attachment science provides a foundational understanding for how you grew up and how it shaped your personality, as well as where the healing needs to occur. Relational Psychodynamic therapy guides us as we navigate your defenses and coping strategies, your motivation and meaning for life, and where you need to grow.

With a Doctorate in Professional Counseling, I have extensive training and years of experience helping whatever you bring into therapy. I stay current in the field, consult and train with other clinicians, so you can experience long-lasting change.

Families who do this work with me often tell me they begin to:

• Set healthier boundaries in their relationships
• Feel more connected to their family members as people, not just as roles
• Understand how their family’s history has shaped each of them
• Navigate conflict with understanding and actual resolution
• Enjoy and respect family members they had almost given up on
• Feel at peace with their family legacy and contribute something better to the next generation

A session is a collaborative and exploratory space. I’m here as a guide and expert on therapy, while you are an expert in your life and experience. You and I will work together in a confidential environment and unpack all that you are facing, both in the present and in the past — and you can set the pace.

In our first sessions together I want to balance hearing all of the present painful symptoms and conflict you are experiencing with getting to know your history and background, which provides context for the work as we explore it. Our first sessions are a place for you and me to get a sense of what treatment would look like and see if we are a good fit together.

The following sessions are a combination of processing the events of your week balanced with exploration into your personalities, patterns, and family history as we progress. Sessions are typically 50 minutes, scheduled once a week. I also offer 2–3 hour intensives for families who want to get deeper into the work.

I want to attune to and collaborate with each of you — meeting you where you are and journeying with you as a guide toward your goals. We will regularly discuss your goals and what is getting in the way to make sure you are getting the help you need.