Clients who are experiencing chaotic or isolated home lives, feel they are always in crisis and out of control in their homes and with their family, don't feel love in their homes, don't feel a sense of cohesiveness and "relationship", who are having difficulties raising their children, or have conflicted family relationships seek our Family Therapy (FT) Services. These families are finding it hard to tolerate their home environment or familial relationships. Family members are in conflict with one another, and one or more family members may be experiencing personal symptoms and having a difficult time managing themselves.

The treatment and approach assist the client (family system or subsystems) view their situation in context giving them a different perspective of their situation and therefore allowing them to approach their situation from a different perspective achieving different and satisfying results. The work assists the families understand why they are operating as they are, why symptoms manifest, how they create dissatisfying dynamics that keeps them stuck and recreating the same situations over an over, how to reorganize themselves in relation to one another, how change their dynamic and relieve symptoms, and gives them tools and skills to create a cohesive, respectful, supportive, nurturing, and loving family.

Children issues are addressed within the FT scope and Play Therapy is employed to reach and assist the youngest children.

We work with families with two-parents, a single-parent, dual career parents, separated parents, divorced parents, remarried parents, foster/adoptive parents, surrogate parents and any other combination - families now a days are very creative on how they organize themselves and we welcome all of them.

Symptoms and Issues faced by the Family:

• Disciplining, positive parenting
• Separating couple and parent roles
• Family structure, routine, boundary issues
• Children's self esteem
• Sibling rivalry
• Behavior problems in children at school and/or home
• Academic difficulties
• Learning disorders
• ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)
• Dealing with bullies
• Adolescent issues
• Peer pressure for teenagers
• Dealing with gangs for teenagers
• Enuresis (known as "bed wetting")
• Encopresis (passage of feces into inappropriate places)
• Irregular eating patterns
• Divorce, separation
• Single parenting
• Co-parenting
• "Remarriage" and "step" children and sibs, divided loyalties, disapproving or angry children
• Adoption
• Dealing with elderly parents, parental care-giving responsibilities
• Chronic illness
• Launching and the college years
• Problems with adult children
• Family business issues
• Domestic violence, anger, aggression
• Use of substances

To schedule your Family Therapy appointment, call us at 212-537-9055 or Click Here