Family Therapy

Family Therapy

Being a part of a family is a phenomenally rewarding and simultaneously challenging experience. As parents we want to make sure our children are growing up with a sense of security and love while also learning important values that carry them into the world as adults. Sometimes families come to us to help parents get along better with their withdrawn teenagers. Others enter family therapy because the children are attached to one parent and seemingly estranged from the other. And still other families want help co-parenting very young children, as their parenting values are highly divergent. The reasons for wanting help run the gamut. Whatever the case may be, our team is able to sort through what feels like a mess and help everyone feel understood, calmer, less reactive, and more hopeful about a future together. Family treatment at PCT can lead you through a journey of healing and reconciliation in order to find peace in your home, with your children.

We also see adult families, as being part of a family doesn’t always get easier with age and maturity. Life stressors and transitions such as those brought on by mental illness or addiction, death, financial strain, estrangement, aging family members, and cultural differences might bring adult families to work with a therapist.

You may be hoping to find a way past old resentments and hurts with your siblings, a parent looking to work through conflict with an adult child, or a newlywed hoping for a more positive connection with an in-law. In these circumstances and many more, the clinicians at PCT will help you understand and renegotiate the roles you have inhabited in your family system so that you can focus on the love and connection you long for with the people closest to you. We’ll work with you to help you hear your family member(s) with fresh ears, relate to old patterns and familiar people in new ways, and maneuver perpetual conflicts with greater flexibility.

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The Gray Space Between Us:Understanding Black-and-White Thinking in Human Relationships

In the human experience, it’s tempting to reduce life into binaries: good or bad, right or wrong, love or hate. These cognitive shortcuts, which you might call dichotomous thinking or black-and-white thinking, can appear to provide clarity. But they actually distort our reality and strain our relationships.

We love our partners yet feel deep frustration over their quirks or behaviors. We eagerly anticipate hosting the holidays but quietly dread the emotional labor involved. We adore our children, yet still feel bored, overwhelmed, exhausted, or even resentful of them.

This does not mean we’re broken. It means we’re human.

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