Parenting education involves one or both parents collaborating with me in a supportive setting to gain the insight and tools needed to raise healthy, happy, and productive children.  

I understand how stressful life and its' daily demands can be and, unfortunately, family usually pays the price.  It's difficult trying to juggle the various roles and responsibilities of a parent and still find time to take care of your yourself and your children adequately.  Many times parents put themselves last and neglect their own needs, making it nearly impossible to care for others.  I'm here to partner with you in creating positive change within yourself and your family.  You'll learn tools and techniques to effectively manage your family, address problematic behaviors in your children, set healthy boundaries and appropriate consequences, and improve interaction and communication, all the while strengthening the relationship.  You'll gain an understanding about yourself and learn the personal obstacles that may be hindering your growth as a person and parent.  You'll also obtain the skills needed to prioritize and set boundaries at work and with others to create the time needed to invest in your family.  The end result will be a healthier balance in your life and greater confidence in your abilities as a parent!   

Family therapy combines all the members of the family in an integrative setting to nurture new patterns of interaction, communication and positive family functioning.

In many families, the various member roles introduced early on lead to negative patterns of interaction, communication, and behavior.  As parents evolve, children get older, marital relationships change, and life stressors find their way into the family system, cycles of behavior develop that can be problematic and dysfunctional.  Because change in a family is both normal and ongoing, it is important to take note of the evolution, update each member on their new role and reconfigurate the system if need be. My systemati­­c approach may include individual therapy for various members of the family--including play therapy for the youngest--as well as couples therapy and parenting education. 

Family therapy is a perfect medium to integrate the positive changes and new information that have been learned in other avenues of the therapeutic process.  As each family member introduces personal change, new patterns of interaction begin to emerge within the family system.  It is exciting and rewarding to watch the family begin working together again, supporting, and enjoying each other.  The family is the single most influential dynamic not only for children and teens but for the parents as well.  The outside world can be a very stressful, unsafe, and hurtful place, making the home environment vitally important for healthy individual and family functioning.