Couples/Family Counseling:
The health of couple relationships is based on the presence or absence of emotional connection. Emotionally focused therapy is useful when couples are struggling to build or rebuild the connection. Learning the dynamics that repeat in your relationship to create disconnection, learning to interrupt and change the patterns facilitates emotional reconciliation. Discovering wounds to the attachment, forgiving and healing those wounds enable the connection to feel safe again. The development of enhanced communication and conflict resolution skills promote understanding. All of us want our thoughts and feelings understood.
Families are the foundation for the next generation, the legacy parents pass on, the place of love, nurture, instruction and launching. Families may struggle with roles, navigating stages of family development, parenting styles, the “fit” within the family unit, effective communication, resolution of hidden agendas, and setting and observing appropriate boundaries. There is no better place to learn to love better, than within one’s family. Sometimes our families can use a little help to be one that offers roots of security and self-assurance and the wings of courage to greet life.
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