Family Therapy

Our society is full of broken relationships longing to heal. Especially the ones between adult children and their parents. Often, these relationships are blocked with pain, misunderstandings, hidden dynamics, and miscommunications. Because of this, much of the pain parents and adult children experience is unnecessary. And yet, it is still real, and still felt, and needs to be given care.

     What makes this relationship so important, and so difficult?

    With genuine effort, it’s possible for parents and adult children to enter a renewed partnership with each other. I help to facilitate this process by guiding each person into their own experience – their own narratives, emotions and felt senses – to understand the ways they’re contributing to patterns of disconnection, and to notice what brings them back into the connection they’re wanting. In short, this helps to clarify each person’s relationship to the relationship, and where each person defaults in moments of distress.

     From there, it becomes possible to engage with deeper, heartfelt truths in the relationship, acknowledging the unconscious roles each play, and allowing each to deepen into and share their humanity.   It becomes possible to address the real, repeated intergenerational and cultural patterns and create choice in the relationship. I help to guide the peeling back of these layers at a pace of trust and understanding. As the process unfolds, this work interweaves with increasing levels of personal responsibility, on the part of both parent and adult child. As such, this work asks from each member a sense of courageousness, humility, honesty, and intentionality.

     My hope is to guide these relationships into deeper freedom, joy and expansion through reflection, letting go, and renewal.