Family Counseling

I do family counseling. My intention for working with families over the last 20 years has been to bridge the gap of communication and help resolve the wounds of the past that get passed on from generation to generation. Through deep resolution of family patterns, we allow space for our children to step forward into the world of unlimited possibility, enabling them to live happy, healthy, balanced and productive lives.

Are you finding yourself stuck in patterns of communicating with your family that create discord and unhappiness? Are you wanting to find a more productive and cooperative way of dealing with family issues? Are you getting triggered and reacting in ways that don’t always serve you in being an effective parent? If so, I congratulate you with the decision to do family counseling to work on the family issues that may be preventing you and your family the opportunity to live in harmony with each other.

It has been said that many of us are parenting like dinosaurs, using techniques and strategies that were used by our own families as we were growing up, yet in today’s culture prove to be ineffective because the times are different. With that in mind, how do we step up as parents and offer our children the best possible guidance that we can? If you are finding yourself, feeling discouraged with being a parent, not knowing where to turn, perhaps I can offer you some guidance by counseling your family.

My training in family systems work is based on Hellinger Systemic Constellation Work and Rudolph Dreikur’s positive discipline. Approaches like positive discipline not only help you resolve hidden patterns within your family system but also teach you how to resolve, release and step into a whole new way of being with each other.

From my own experience of raising my two sons, at times I felt inadequate as a parent. And who doesn’t? What I learned early on, was that my kids, unique within themselves, didn’t respond in the same way to discipline that I had learned as a child. In other words, they were wired differently and each needed an approach that honored their personality allowing them to grow and thrive. I realized that in many ways, having children was like having constant psychotherapy—little mirrors everywhere reflecting the parts of myself that were wounded, insecure, and lacking confidence. It was at this point, I knew that I could use some guidance. So began my journey into positive discipline that would change my way of parenting forever.

If you are interested in shifting the trajectory of your own family constellation, please contact me. Family Counseling is one of the Healing Services that I offer. I do many types of counseling.