Have you ever wondered how your problems got started, or how your spouse got to be the way they are?  More than likely, it is within the family of our childhood and adolescence that we all got the way we are.  You see, your family can be your greatest source of support, comfort and love.  But it can also be your greatest source of pain and grief.  There are a host of problems that can threaten to keep us from growing up whole and unscathed; and there are problems that tear families apart at vulnerable times of children's lives.

 Family therapy can help your family weather such storms. Family therapy can help patch strained relationships, teach new coping skills and improve how your family works together.  Whether it's you, your partner, a child or even a sibling or parent who's in crisis, family therapy can help all of you communicate better and learn to get along.

 I fequently treat individuals and couples and realize that the dynamics of their concerns originated in their Family of Origin.  Most of us fail to see this until it is pointed out by a skilled therapist.  In fact, I find it very common that clients start out unaware or even deny that their issues and concerns could possibly be related to their family upbringing.  One person's depression may have been in response to any number of types of family experiences.  And another person may insist that their anger, detachment and inability to empathize, to be decisive, or to sustain intimacy is the the fault of their partner or spouse, and later realize that their symtom patterns were learned in childhood; and that they have unknowingly  brought into adulthood and marriage, a nearly hardwired emotionally activated pattern of interacting that confounds or is threatening to defeat their natural desire to be loving and caring toward, and to loved and cared for by, their mate, their children, there peers.