Finding Help

What is Counseling?

Choosing a Therapist

About Confidentiality

About Anxiety

About Depression

About Crisis

Marriage & Family Counseling

About Family Counseling

Marriage, Family and Relationship Problems

Every individual, couple or family experiences some problems along the way, but sometimes we have special needs or face difficult issues that seem to confound our efforts to make things better. Often counseling can help with problems such as:

• Children failing in school
• Rebellious teenagers
• Alcoholism or substance abuse by a family member
• Death in the family
• Marriage and family conflicts
• Sudden illness
• Unemployment
• Infidelity

What marriage and family therapy (MFT) does

• MFT looks at your relationships within systems of friends, family, school, and work and sees them as a way of understanding how your problems developed.
• MFT focuses on the power of relationships within systems as the instrument of change and healing
• MFT pioneered brief, solution-focused, family-centered treatment.
• MFT seeks to pinpoint problems and complete therapy as soon as specific, concrete and measurable goals are met.

Resources

The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy www.aamft.org. has the most complete site with suggestions on how to locate a therapist, parenting, adolescent problems and other family issues.