Disconnected, Angry and Frustrated?
Do you feel your family is disconnected from each other?
When you’re in the same room with each other do you know how to connect?
Do you dread family gatherings?
Are the holidays a time of stress?
At Thanksgiving, do you give the most thanks when it's finally over?

Are you at a point where you want more for yourself and your family?
Do you want real genuine family moments where you feel connected to each other and truly love and support each other?
Are you looking to build resources that will help you and each member of your family to flourish both as individuals and as a family?
Getting to Know Your Family
I will work with you and your family to open up communication and to help you understand each other better, and to understand yourself in relation your family system. We have this vision of a family being just the people who live under the same roof. It's like the family started when two people got together and decided to have a kid. That small group of people exist onto themselves.

But the truth is we all come from somewhere. Our parents had parents, their parents had parents, and so on. Each previous generation influences the next. Eventually when two people come together to start their own family, they are not starting from scratch. They are each bringing with them multiple generations of experiences, losses and assumptions. And all of those things result in certain beliefs, values and rules, all of which will combine and fall onto the shoulders of any children raised in that family. Add to this a modern and constantly changing society with its own beliefs, values, and rules. And on top of that you add individuals with their own struggles, issues and experiences in life which may leave them less able to approach life from an open and understanding and loving place. The result is often family members who have a hard time understanding and relating to each other. 

Are you ready to Flourish?
Once we have a better understanding of who our family is and where they are coming from it is easier to love them and accept them for how they are. With family counselling, my focus is on helping you and your family to develop the resources you need to flourish.

Often times families don’t have the skills and knowledge needed to build strong and healthy relationships. This is because often we come from families that didn’t know how to build strong and healthy relationships. Then we get married and start our own families and the problems of the past visit us in the present and we are left at loss. We love our family. However, we are at a loss as to how to connect to each other and create healthy relationships. Often resentments and disappointments start to accumulate and before we know it, we are at our wits end and not sure what to do. The way out of this problem is to start addressing the root cause.

Too often we look at the symptoms, like an out of control teenager or a spouse that drinks or a spouse that is emotionally distant. These are not the problem; they are symptoms of the problem. By getting curious and investigating what is really going on, we can discover the real problem and then develop skills and resources to build a strong and healthy family that works to support each member to reach their fullest potential. When we work with a family system and recognize that nothing happens in a vacuum, we get insight, clarity and understanding and are then able to work with you and your family to build resources that will help your family to flourish.
​​In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future. — ALEX HALEY
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