Family Therapy
Promotes Healthy Attachment, Effective Emotional Coregulation, Healthy Communication, Interpersonal Problem-Solving, & Reconciliation
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Some parents seek family therapy services to improve their family's quality of life as a stand alone service while others utilize family therapy in addition to their child's individual services to maximize results.
FAMILY COUNSELING WITH ADOLESCENTS
Family Systems Therapies
The therapist partners with the adolescent and their caregivers to explore the strengths and weaknesses that exist within their world. Focus is placed on fostering healthy communications, decreasing risk-taking behaviors, building a healthy alliance, and strengthening healthy attachment patterns.
FAMILY COUNSELING WITH YOUNGER CHILDREN
Marshack Interaction Method
Assessment method utilized at the beginning and end of therapy to identify attachment patterns between caregiver & child
"Rooted in the theory of Child-Centered Play Therapy, this family model is based on the belief that a caregiver acting as an agent for change in place of a play therapist has potential for significant and lasting therapeutic gains." (Landreth & Bratton, 2019)
Child-Parent Relationship Therapy
Family-Based Adlerian Play Therapy
In this family adaptation caregivers join their child in semi-directive adlerian play therapy sessions using toys, stories, art, drama, puppets, and role-playing as the vehicle for communication to solve problems and reinforce positive treatment outcomes (Kottman, 2011).
Theraplay-based Activities in Family Therapy
Therapist leads caregiver and child in activities focused on structure, engagement, nurture and challenge to promote secure attachment