Services: Marriage and Family Therapy
What is Marriage and Family Therapy?
Marriage and family therapy is a form of psychotherapy that addresses the behaviors of all family members and the way these behaviors affect not only individual family members but also relationships between members and the family unit as a whole.
This type of therapy focuses on communication, coping skills, constructive problem-solving, as well as ways to build trust and strengthen healthy relationships in a family system.
The range of physical and psychological problems treated by MFT include:
Marital and couple conflict
Separation
Divorce
Parent and child conflict
Alcohol and drug abuse
Sexual dysfunction
Financial difficulties
Grief
Distress
Eating disorders
Weight difficulties
Behavior problems in children such as self-harm
Life transitions such as job loss
Difficulties with eldercare such as coping with a parent’s or grandparent’s dementia
Marriage and family therapy practitioners also work with mental health matters such as a family member’s depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia, and they address the effect these concerns have on the rest of the family.
Vladanka Mitrovic
The “family room” found at our main office where we typically conduct our relational therapy sessions.