Family Therapy

Family therapy considers the needs and functioning of a group of people. Unlike individual counseling, the focus is on relationships among family members which can be a couple, a child-sibling group, or a larger group bonded through family ties. Often times, family therapy seeks to untangle unhelpful patterns that create chronic tension and misunderstanding among family members.

Marriage and family therapists treat a wide range of clinical problems, including depression, marital problems, anxiety, individual psychological problems, and child-parent problems.

Research indicates that marriage and family therapy is as effective, and in some cases more effective than standard and/or individual treatments for many mental health problems such as chronic mental illness, mood disorders, adult alcoholism and drug abuse, children's conduct disorders, adolescent drug abuse, and marital distress and conflict.