Family matters often have a profound effect on children.  If you are struggling with a family matter, we offer marriage and family therapy in addition to individual therapy. Many step families, in particular, have been helped by having a marriage and family counselor in order to help the children adjust to the changes. Step parenting can be very difficult.  Step parenting poses extra complication and challenges. Many women tell us that being a step mother is one of the  biggest challenges of their lives.  Our counselors are familiar with step family dynamics and able to help smooth out the adjustment and help with step parenting. 

A marriage and family counselor can also be very helpful when parents are not able to support each other, when there is conflict or communication problems in the family or when the family is threatened with potentially breaking up.  There are some disorders, such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder ,which research has shown respond better to marriage and family therapy than to individual therapy.