Family Unification as a Primary Resource
Family Therapy for the Modern Family
Family therapy can be a greater addition to bridging family communication and assertiveness, fostering negotiation skills and empathy, and dealing with family structure changes as life occurs (environmental, financial, psychological, or physical).
KIN Psychotherapy Mental Health Counseling offers professional family therapy sessions targeted at improving communication, family unit functioning (as parts that make up a whole organism), and reinforcing coping skills to deal with changes that can strain even the most cohesive families.
THE FAMILY UNIT IS THE CLIENT
Family therapy at KIN treats the functioning of a particular family as the identified client, not individual members. Each person has a role--whether chosen for themselves or assigned--and an equal voice to help define how best the family is to move forward through challenges. Often this will highlight cultural, generational, and gendered norms for behavior and will require each member to be fully committed to change.
Concerns
Parent-child conflict, adverse childhood experiences, divorce/ separation/ remarrying, adolescent delinquency, adolescent substance use, adolescent eating disorder, blended family, strained family constellation, etc.
Benefits
Improved communication, enhanced family cohesion, elimination of role conflict or role strain, increased affect regulation and frustration tolerance, greater interpersonal compassion/ empathy, increased assertiveness training and autonomy
Modalities
​Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
