Blended Families

Blended Families

Research suggests that almost half of Americans experience a blended family relationship in their lives. At PCT, we want to make the process of inviting new family members into your circle one that ultimately results in more support, love, and connection for everyone involved. Whether you’re struggling to adapt your kids to life with a new parent, confronting co-parenting challenges and disagreements about expectations across households, managing a new role, or navigating the resurgence of unresolved issues with past and current partners, we want to help.

Blended family counseling means a safe space away for you to come together with your partner to overcome feelings of helplessness during chaotic or challenging moments. We’ll work to foster understanding, trust, and confidence so that you can protect each other and your relationship when it is under stress.

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You’re Not Doing It Wrong. It’s Just Really Hard Right NowA Reflection on Parenting, Summer, and the Shame of Not Loving Every Second

There’s a seasonal shift happening—one that brings more daylight, backyard dinners, and sticky popsicle fingers. But for many parents, summer doesn’t feel light and breezy. It feels like pressure. The kids are out of school, routines are gone, and parental personal space evaporates. And in that wide, echoing void, a different presence rushes in: the illusion that you should be savoring every second. That illusion doesn’t soothe, it suffocates. It whispers that if you’re not loving every moment, something must be wrong with you.

In our practice, summer often brings a wave of quiet desperation. The kind of desperation where you find yourself fantasizing about a silent cabin in the woods. The kind where you dread making yet another camp lunch, feel overwhelmed by the logistics of pickup times that change weekly, and beat yourself up for not being more grateful for the chaos.

Sound familiar?

Here’s the truth: Loving your children and feeling claustrophobic around them are not contradictions. They are co-existences, which is a part of life’s gray space.

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