Families come in all shapes, sizes, and colors...

My goal is to provide families with a safe harbor to explore the challenges they currently face, understand how problems developed and what has maintained these problems.  I work with families to help children and adults cope with stressful life transitions, strained family relationships, past relationship injuries, and family crisis.  Family therapy can also be helpful to address parenting concerns, including difficulties with collaborative co-parenting during the process of divorce or when children have parents in two different households.

I also have extensive experience working with families in which one or more adults or children are coping with mental illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, ADHD, and behavior problems among children and teens.

Even when only one family member is struggling with emotional, behavioral, social, or performance problems, family and couple therapy can be a powerful tool in restoring individual well-being.

Who should come to family therapy?

Having all family members participate in the assessment process can facilitate the process of identifying family dynamics that contribute to problems, but not all family members are willing to come to therapy.  That's okay and should not stop you from seeking help.  Not all family members need to participate in every session, and I will work with you to create an individualized therapy plan that maximizes the participation of the family members in each session.

What if the "children" in your family are now adults?

Family therapy can also be a powerful tool to heal relationships between parents and adult children, or between adult siblings, and adults with other types of family relationships.  Online family therapy sessions are often clinically appropriate when all participating family members are adults.  The convenience of online sessions can enable family members separated by physical distance or with conflicting schedules to bypass these common barriers to treatment.