Family Therapy

Our family therapists primarily use the Bowenian Family Therapy approach, which focuses on understanding and addressing the complex dynamics within families. The theory uses "systems thinking" to describe the unit’s complex interactions. It is the nature of a family that its members are intensely emotionally connected. Often people feel distant or disconnected from their families, but this is more of a feeling than a fact.

Families can profoundly affect their members’ thoughts, feelings, and actions; it often seems as if people are living under the same “emotional skin.” People solicit each other’s attention, approval, and support, and often react to each other’s needs and expectations. This connectedness and reactivity make the functioning of family members interdependent. A change in one person’s functioning is predictably followed by reciprocal changes in the functioning of others. Families differ somewhat in their degree of interdependence, but to some degree, it is always present. Our therapists' deepest desire is that you don't blame the past but learn and emerge differently if the system you grew up in is associated with pain.