Family Conflict

Family relationships are complex and meaningful. I have worked with many clients to support them in understanding how those relationships are impacting them now and how they would like to move forward with them.

We all struggle in our families to one degree or another. When this feels overwhelming it may be time to change our approach. Together we can create new strategies for navigating complex relationships with our relatives both chosen and biological.

Past and current dysfunctional or unhealthy family dynamics can contribute to a myriad of mental health concerns, including anxiety and depression. Together we can explore how these dynamics impact your life without blaming your parents or caregivers.

My course of graduate study emphasized family systems. I then put this study to work with families and relationships who were experiencing distress. I have experience in a therapeutic capacity and in the capacity of a crisis worker reuniting families in lockout or runaway situations, meaning either the child has run away from home or the family has refused to allow the child to return. Having had experience in high-stress situations, I am comfortable working with any level of conflict.

Family Conflict can happen when family members have different views or beliefs that clash. Peaceful resolution depends on negotiation and respect for the other person’s point of view. Effect communication is key.

I work with adult families and friends on mid to late life issues. This may include multigenerational family conflict; caregiving and planning for loved ones; coping with health conditions; redefining parent-child relationships.

Families are complex and throughout time often get stuck, and need support around a number of concerns. I have experience working with all types of families. Families going through a divorce, blended/step-families and extended family or in-law concerns. Raising children is not easy, thus it can be extremely challenging to navigate all of the different relationship dynamics in a family unit, an especially when going through a family change.

Families are complicated, and you deserve a space to process and sort out your thoughts and feelings. I help clients process emotions about family, set better boundaries, improve communication, strengthen coping strategies, and gain perspective.

I specialize in Sibling Therapy and Mother/Daughter Therapy more info at recovermecounseling.com

At The Refuge Marriage and Family Therapy, we specialize in helping families navigate and resolve conflict. Using a blend of research-based approaches like the Gottman Method and Emotion-Focused Therapy, we guide families in improving communication, fostering understanding, and building stronger relationships. Our trauma-informed, inclusive approach helps families address underlying issues, enhance emotional regulation, and create lasting solutions to restore harmony and connection.

Our family affects who we are and who we become, both for the better and worse. We learn our vocabulary, habits, customs, and rituals and how to view and observe the world around us. Anyone seeking healthier, closer family relationships can benefit from family therapy.Family therapy is necessary to address family issues and heal a family’s wounds. Does this resonate with your family, consider seeking family therapy. Family therapy can be beneficial on many different levels.

Families can be complex. We’re taught that families should be a source of unconditional support, but what if they aren’t? It can be hard to give up hope that they’ll ever be who you need them to be. You might feel like you’ve exhausted all options and don’t know where to go from here with members of your family. You might feel guilt around the way things have worked out. Therapy can help you decide what to do with the feelings you feel and find ways to move forward that are right for you.

Intimate relationships that are not safe, trusting or respectful hijack your sense of feeling valued. Any compulsion, addiction, or dysfunction in the family, when the focus is on one member affects all. It may be a serious illness, a recent death, or a huge life stressor that creates upheaval and discord in the family. This can result in estrangement, bickering, loneliness, and isolation. Healing is available and often can help develop stronger bonds.

I have completed training to work with families and provided family therapy for over a year.

We help families get out of negative patterns of communication and get on the same page with things like parenting.

Launching young adults, parenting teens, parenting children, parenting adult children, empty nesting, financial conflicts, school conflicts, household management, defiant children, Aspergers and autism-spectrum disorders, ADHD/ADD, co-parenting Also specialize in conflicts around extended families and family businesses.

I have a lot of experience helping families increase their ability to communicate and feel a greater degree of connection. Often, once we understand and acknowledge the valid places our feelings are coming from, this enables the conversation to turn from conflict to communication. Everyone has a role to play and some valuable to bring to the table. My role is to help build on the connection that is already there