Family Therapy
Strengthen your family bonds and build a more loving and supportive home with our family therapy services in Los Angeles, Cerritos, Long Beach, Beverly Hills, Torrance, Rancho Palos Verdes, and online throughout California.
The best description of your family is dysfunctional.
Arguments, blaming, and divisions have taken over your family.
Your children feel like you have not been a good mother or father. They feel like even if you did not leave them, you were never present.
Feelings of being respected by your children are overwhelming. You have done your best to show them your love; however, they think you have not been there for them.
All this has left you feeling empty with a disconnected family.
Nobody told you that parenting a teenager was this hard.
Your teenager wants to act like a parent. The child you once knew now thinks they have life figured out and does not need you to tell them how to live their life. Let’s not forget they are still teenagers.
Unfortunately, your teenager doesn’t listen to you. They come home very late, making you unable to sleep until they return.
That sweet baby you once knew is no longer innocent. Your child’s life revolves around their friends. They stop calling you mom and would rather be with their friends.
You’re sad and worried that your child keeps associating with the wrong crowd. Unfortunately, you do not know where to turn for help.
Your partner continues to be dependent on substances.
Your family has tried to help your partner, but nothing changes. The dependency on substances has left your family with financial stress. You’re close to losing your home because of the struggles with substances.
Although you have older children who can support and help you address your partner’s addiction, you are unsure about how to ask for their support.
When you finally asked for your children’s help to address your partner’s problem, they did not help and asked you to stop enabling your partner and that it was not their problem.
The entire family must learn to set boundaries with the parent struggling with dependency on substances, but you don’t know how to proceed.
Your family needs to make that life-changing decision.
The main question is, “Should we keep Mom in her home or a nursing home?” Your family seems divided when it comes to this situation.
Some of your siblings, uncles, and aunts are not seeing eye to eye because of the different opinions.
What are you going to do with your parent’s estate? You’re the estate executor and want to follow the will of all concerned, but some of your family members are not happy with what’s in your parents’ will, creating a lack of communication on resolving the issue.
Pain from the past contributes to family division. You want your old family back and miss the family traditions.
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Find the help that your family needs!
Family Therapy provides an opportunity to express the hurt, gain clarity, apologize, express your love, learn how to communicate effectively, and set boundaries. It is your space to understand the family dynamics and change the ineffective dynamics.
As your Therapist, I will guide your family to explore the underlying issues that have led to your current situation. I will help you understand each family member’s role and how you can use your strengths to achieve your family goals.
I use Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, and Psychodynamic Therapy to help your family understand how your thoughts about each other affect your feelings and behaviors toward each other, how each family member’s behaviors affect the whole family, and how the past has created current challenges.
Together, we will explore transgenerational patterns in your family, options, and solutions to help your family create new meanings about past and current challenges and provide balance and support for each other.
Reach out today to start your healing journey.
You deserve a caring, loving, understanding, and peaceful family.
Let me help you resolve the issues that keep tearing your family apart. There is still much love under all the conflict. We can discover that love together.
