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Jacqueline Rodgers
Licensed Professional Counselor, DMin , LPC-S
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
Waitlist for new clients
Are you in a relationship that is characterized by arguing and constant negativity? Are you depressed or experiencing anxiety? How about, struggling with various relationship challenges with family, children, and/or friends which is causing emotional strain and stress? Perhaps your feeling stuck or in a rut? You are not alone, and this is not the life that God has purposed for you! Without a doubt, positive and loving relationships are crucial to peace, happiness, and fulfillment. I can be of assistance with problem solving and changing negative thoughts and behavior patterns.
Are you in a relationship that is characterized by arguing and constant negativity? Are you depressed or experiencing anxiety? How about, struggling with various relationship challenges with family, children, and/or friends which is causing emotional strain and stress? Perhaps your feeling stuck or in a rut? You are not alone, and this is not the life that God has purposed for you! Without a doubt, positive and loving relationships are crucial to peace, happiness, and fulfillment. I can be of assistance with problem solving and changing negative thoughts and behavior patterns.
(972) 992-7107 View (972) 992-7107
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Cara Pruitt
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065
I would be delighted to help your family become engaged again with positive communication, better understanding of one another, and have laughter return.
It is my goal to provide you a safe, supportive, and accepting environment to explore your unique journey. I offer compassion and objective listening. Together we can orchestrate the best plan to help you navigate through this time, prepare for your next adventure or to simply continue on the journey you are on for better clarity and personal growth.
I would be delighted to help your family become engaged again with positive communication, better understanding of one another, and have laughter return.
It is my goal to provide you a safe, supportive, and accepting environment to explore your unique journey. I offer compassion and objective listening. Together we can orchestrate the best plan to help you navigate through this time, prepare for your next adventure or to simply continue on the journey you are on for better clarity and personal growth.
(972) 440-1044 View (972) 440-1044
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Dominica Johnson
Licensed Professional Counselor
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065  (Online Only)
Dominica Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who has 5 years of experience working with all different populations, including adults, children/adolescents, and geriatric, while providing individual, family, couples, and group counseling. Dominica has also worked with clients who suffer from drug/alcohol addiction, depression, anxiety, family/relationship issues, anger problems, communication problems, and severe mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), etc. She has helped many people in her field.
Dominica Johnson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who has 5 years of experience working with all different populations, including adults, children/adolescents, and geriatric, while providing individual, family, couples, and group counseling. Dominica has also worked with clients who suffer from drug/alcohol addiction, depression, anxiety, family/relationship issues, anger problems, communication problems, and severe mental health disorders such as schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), etc. She has helped many people in her field.
(972) 449-4682 View (972) 449-4682
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Kathy Corbin
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065  (Online Only)
Hello and welcome to this space reserved just for you! I am eager and interested in learning about you, not just the issues you are struggling with now, I also want to know about what you are good at, what you find joy in, your interests, and how you relate with your partner, family, and friends. You are the only one who knows all about you and that is why you are the expert and I am the facilitator, the listener, the objective voice, and yes, the teacher and mentor. Together, we will discuss next steps, strategies for success, and how to navigate through the pain, fear, hopelessness and helplessness you are experiencing now
Hello and welcome to this space reserved just for you! I am eager and interested in learning about you, not just the issues you are struggling with now, I also want to know about what you are good at, what you find joy in, your interests, and how you relate with your partner, family, and friends. You are the only one who knows all about you and that is why you are the expert and I am the facilitator, the listener, the objective voice, and yes, the teacher and mentor. Together, we will discuss next steps, strategies for success, and how to navigate through the pain, fear, hopelessness and helplessness you are experiencing now
(469) 529-7759 View (469) 529-7759
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Lifeologie Midlothian
Licensed Professional Counselor
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065
Our team has specialists in individual, marital, family and group therapy, mindfulness, child/play therapy, addictions trichotillomania, cross-cultural issues, trauma recovery, adolescents, life transitions, depression, anxiety, eating disorders.
Creative Solutions to Stuck Problems® is what we provide. Our counselors work with adults, kids, couples, families, and the LGBTQ+ community. The mission of Lifeologie Counseling is to help you address and overcome any emotional issues, communication problems, relationship struggles, or personal traumas that you may be facing or have faced. Our counselors bring to each session enthusiasm, honesty, common sense, professionalism, and a sense of humor. Contact us today to get started on your new path.
Our team has specialists in individual, marital, family and group therapy, mindfulness, child/play therapy, addictions trichotillomania, cross-cultural issues, trauma recovery, adolescents, life transitions, depression, anxiety, eating disorders.
Creative Solutions to Stuck Problems® is what we provide. Our counselors work with adults, kids, couples, families, and the LGBTQ+ community. The mission of Lifeologie Counseling is to help you address and overcome any emotional issues, communication problems, relationship struggles, or personal traumas that you may be facing or have faced. Our counselors bring to each session enthusiasm, honesty, common sense, professionalism, and a sense of humor. Contact us today to get started on your new path.
(972) 975-5904 View (972) 975-5904
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LaMonica Mercy Lpc-Associate - Supervised By Cassandra Rowe Lpc-S
LPC Intern, M Ed, LPC A
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065
Life can be beautiful, but it can also be difficult. I journey alongside clients to help them work through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship, school, & career issues. Clients are provided a safe space to gain clarity in their situation, develop coping skills and tools to help them enhance life and to resolve issues. I welcome youth, ages 15 & above. I also welcome adults of any age and background. I also have expertise in familial relationships and dynamics centered around the discovery of a new family associated with adoption or non-paternal events. I look forward to supporting you through the therapeutic process.
Life can be beautiful, but it can also be difficult. I journey alongside clients to help them work through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship, school, & career issues. Clients are provided a safe space to gain clarity in their situation, develop coping skills and tools to help them enhance life and to resolve issues. I welcome youth, ages 15 & above. I also welcome adults of any age and background. I also have expertise in familial relationships and dynamics centered around the discovery of a new family associated with adoption or non-paternal events. I look forward to supporting you through the therapeutic process.
(817) 952-5301 View (817) 952-5301
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Lani Ellis
Licensed Professional Counselor
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065
I invite you to share your past or current hurts, family issues, memories that haunt you, or anything you want to explore.
Do you have longings or yearn for belonging? Have you had your hopes dashed by betrayal from a partner, spouse, or loved one? Hurting from life not being the way it should be? You are not a problem to be fixed, you are a person to be known. Your Story is worth knowing, remembering, and creating. My job is to create a safe space for you to explore your story, your longings, your hopes, your dreams, and maybe even experience moments of JOY! I do not ask my clients to do anything I have not done or am not willing to do myself. I want to explore what direction of healing is right for you.
I invite you to share your past or current hurts, family issues, memories that haunt you, or anything you want to explore.
Do you have longings or yearn for belonging? Have you had your hopes dashed by betrayal from a partner, spouse, or loved one? Hurting from life not being the way it should be? You are not a problem to be fixed, you are a person to be known. Your Story is worth knowing, remembering, and creating. My job is to create a safe space for you to explore your story, your longings, your hopes, your dreams, and maybe even experience moments of JOY! I do not ask my clients to do anything I have not done or am not willing to do myself. I want to explore what direction of healing is right for you.
(855) 967-3501 View (855) 967-3501
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Kay Fontenot
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW-S, LCDC, BSP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
My professional goal is to provide connection, healing, and insight during each of our encounters, With a passion for attachment and relational models, I have training, expertise and experience in providing counseling and psychotherapy for the following types of concerns/struggles: Women's Concerns, Emerging Adults, Relationship Strain, Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Substance Use, Personality Traits and/or Disorders, Divorce, Infidelity, Boundaries, Grief and Loss, Career Concerns, Assertiveness Training, & Life Adjustments. I also offer individual, group and family intensives for connection, insight and deeper healing.
My professional goal is to provide connection, healing, and insight during each of our encounters, With a passion for attachment and relational models, I have training, expertise and experience in providing counseling and psychotherapy for the following types of concerns/struggles: Women's Concerns, Emerging Adults, Relationship Strain, Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Substance Use, Personality Traits and/or Disorders, Divorce, Infidelity, Boundaries, Grief and Loss, Career Concerns, Assertiveness Training, & Life Adjustments. I also offer individual, group and family intensives for connection, insight and deeper healing.
(469) 405-2856 View (469) 405-2856
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Solutions Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
Rogers is trained in functional family therapy, a successful family intervention for at risk youth and families, employs cognitive behavioral therapy, an evidenced based modality that promotes significant and timely growth, and has been appointed as an expert by DFW area District Family Courts since 2007 regarding family transitions and issues.
Who needs counseling? Why do people generally seek counseling? Counseling should not be a last resort. Many people look to counseling as a means to develop a plan for tackling life's obstacles or gain perspective - be it life pressures, trouble with romantic , parent-child, or family relationships, parenting, job related stress, or transistion. Counseling can provide a safe place to emotionally and relationally explore solutions that are right for you. Not one person's path is the same.
Rogers is trained in functional family therapy, a successful family intervention for at risk youth and families, employs cognitive behavioral therapy, an evidenced based modality that promotes significant and timely growth, and has been appointed as an expert by DFW area District Family Courts since 2007 regarding family transitions and issues.
Who needs counseling? Why do people generally seek counseling? Counseling should not be a last resort. Many people look to counseling as a means to develop a plan for tackling life's obstacles or gain perspective - be it life pressures, trouble with romantic , parent-child, or family relationships, parenting, job related stress, or transistion. Counseling can provide a safe place to emotionally and relationally explore solutions that are right for you. Not one person's path is the same.
(817) 406-5521 View (817) 406-5521
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Teresa Kline
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065
Our experience of life may lead us to feel Distressed. Disappointed. Discouraged. Overwhelmed. Anxious. Burned out. Angry. Our friends and family may have given us their perspective, and yet we may feel that we just need another impartial, objective point of view. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, with over 20 years of experience overall, and 12 years in Private Practice, my primary objective is to provide a compassionate ear--and in that context--to provide Clients with useful tools and resources to assist them in experiencing a more satisfying quality of life.
Our experience of life may lead us to feel Distressed. Disappointed. Discouraged. Overwhelmed. Anxious. Burned out. Angry. Our friends and family may have given us their perspective, and yet we may feel that we just need another impartial, objective point of view. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, with over 20 years of experience overall, and 12 years in Private Practice, my primary objective is to provide a compassionate ear--and in that context--to provide Clients with useful tools and resources to assist them in experiencing a more satisfying quality of life.
(972) 737-9522 View (972) 737-9522
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Creating Inner Peace Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
Are you tired of feeling anxious or depressed? Are you constantly arguing with your teen or child? Do you need help with a drug or alcohol addiction? Let me walk this journey with you to help you overcome your struggles and teach you helpful coping skills. I have helped past clients through depression, anxiety, addiction, and with kids/teens behavioral issues. I can provide individual or family counseling.
Are you tired of feeling anxious or depressed? Are you constantly arguing with your teen or child? Do you need help with a drug or alcohol addiction? Let me walk this journey with you to help you overcome your struggles and teach you helpful coping skills. I have helped past clients through depression, anxiety, addiction, and with kids/teens behavioral issues. I can provide individual or family counseling.
(469) 773-4284 View (469) 773-4284
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Be Still Counseling
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
We offer individual, family, and group therapy.
Does life feel like it is too much to handle right now? Life can be hard, stressful, and overwhelming in any given season. Then add a traumatic event and it can seem like game over. Trauma comes in many forms and can wreck havoc on your life and the life of those around you. At times it can feel like chaos is surrounding you. We would love to help you or your loved one to create a safe place for the healing journey to begin. We enjoy working alongside young adults, adolescents, and professionals with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Relationship Conflict, Work or School Stress, and Difficult Life Transitions.
We offer individual, family, and group therapy.
Does life feel like it is too much to handle right now? Life can be hard, stressful, and overwhelming in any given season. Then add a traumatic event and it can seem like game over. Trauma comes in many forms and can wreck havoc on your life and the life of those around you. At times it can feel like chaos is surrounding you. We would love to help you or your loved one to create a safe place for the healing journey to begin. We enjoy working alongside young adults, adolescents, and professionals with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Relationship Conflict, Work or School Stress, and Difficult Life Transitions.
(214) 833-9269 View (214) 833-9269
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Monique Rogers
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
I utilize a Solution Focused Approach, to help adolescents, adults and couples struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, family conflict, trauma and those adjusting to the daily challenges of life.
Thanks for visiting my page. I am Monique Rogers, LPC in Mansfield, TX. My ultimate goal is to meet clients where they are and walk alongside you on your journey of healing. I believe Counseling provides an opportunity for individuals to learn and grow personally with the help of a supportive professional. Coming from a lower economic community and overcoming my own past traumas have given me a unique perspective that helps me to empathize and empower those I have the honor of working with. I became a counselor because your life is worth my time!
I utilize a Solution Focused Approach, to help adolescents, adults and couples struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, family conflict, trauma and those adjusting to the daily challenges of life.
Thanks for visiting my page. I am Monique Rogers, LPC in Mansfield, TX. My ultimate goal is to meet clients where they are and walk alongside you on your journey of healing. I believe Counseling provides an opportunity for individuals to learn and grow personally with the help of a supportive professional. Coming from a lower economic community and overcoming my own past traumas have given me a unique perspective that helps me to empathize and empower those I have the honor of working with. I became a counselor because your life is worth my time!
(682) 327-1921 View (682) 327-1921
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Lindsey Beckman
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
Are you or someone in your family struggling with loss, anxiety, or depression? Do you sense you or your family isn’t living their best life, but do not know how to move forward? I am a firm believer in personal strength and believe all individuals can learn tools to overcome hardships and loss. With my encouragement and guidance, learn how to add new tools and techniques to your “tool boxes” which can be utilized to build the grit needed to thrive in life. Therapeutic techniques utilized for individuals, couples, and adolescents are solution focused, client-centered, as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT.
Are you or someone in your family struggling with loss, anxiety, or depression? Do you sense you or your family isn’t living their best life, but do not know how to move forward? I am a firm believer in personal strength and believe all individuals can learn tools to overcome hardships and loss. With my encouragement and guidance, learn how to add new tools and techniques to your “tool boxes” which can be utilized to build the grit needed to thrive in life. Therapeutic techniques utilized for individuals, couples, and adolescents are solution focused, client-centered, as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT.
(817) 242-9465 View (817) 242-9465
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Alyssa Navarro
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
I offer marriage/premarital, family, and individual counseling starting at the age of 15 years old and up.
I fight for my clients and gently challenge them to not give up but instead learn better coping mechanisms so they can get through the difficult times in their lives. This is how I invest in them. I will, however, move at your pace, and if you simply need a space to digest things, we may do so together while you discover more constructive methods to deal with trying circumstances.
I offer marriage/premarital, family, and individual counseling starting at the age of 15 years old and up.
I fight for my clients and gently challenge them to not give up but instead learn better coping mechanisms so they can get through the difficult times in their lives. This is how I invest in them. I will, however, move at your pace, and if you simply need a space to digest things, we may do so together while you discover more constructive methods to deal with trying circumstances.
(972) 576-7818 View (972) 576-7818
Venecia Plashette Lynch
Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, MA
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065  (Online Only)
Venecia utilizes collaborative, strength based, cognitive behavioral, solution focused, family, person centered approaches to therapy always allowing for the creativity and autonomy to meet people where they are in life.
Venecia Lynch is Licensed Professional Counselor Associate in the State of Texas who has experience collaborating with children, adults, women, and families seeking assistance in dealing with various issues that significantly impacts their daily activities. Venecia is a married, retired veteran of the Air Force, mother of one daughter and two grandchildren. She received two M. A degrees from DBU, in Professional Development and Counseling and an M.Ed. from Prairie View A& M University.
Venecia utilizes collaborative, strength based, cognitive behavioral, solution focused, family, person centered approaches to therapy always allowing for the creativity and autonomy to meet people where they are in life.
Venecia Lynch is Licensed Professional Counselor Associate in the State of Texas who has experience collaborating with children, adults, women, and families seeking assistance in dealing with various issues that significantly impacts their daily activities. Venecia is a married, retired veteran of the Air Force, mother of one daughter and two grandchildren. She received two M. A degrees from DBU, in Professional Development and Counseling and an M.Ed. from Prairie View A& M University.
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Living in Legacy Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
Our professional offerings include personalized individual counseling sessions, play therapy expertly tailored for children of all ages, and couples/family therapy aimed at enhancing relationship dynamics and addressing challenges.
At Living in Legacy Counseling we understand that life gets complicated and hard to manage on our own. We believe everyone needs community and deserves a space to be heard and valued. Our unique experiences have led to hurt and disappointment, and how we process and choose to heal from these can be defining moments. These moments where we choose to change the cycle, seek help to end generational patterns and redefine our identity are the exact moments we can change the legacy we are creating. We all leave a legacy and we believe that we can reclaim what is broken and gift future generations a legacy we are proud to hand down.
Our professional offerings include personalized individual counseling sessions, play therapy expertly tailored for children of all ages, and couples/family therapy aimed at enhancing relationship dynamics and addressing challenges.
At Living in Legacy Counseling we understand that life gets complicated and hard to manage on our own. We believe everyone needs community and deserves a space to be heard and valued. Our unique experiences have led to hurt and disappointment, and how we process and choose to heal from these can be defining moments. These moments where we choose to change the cycle, seek help to end generational patterns and redefine our identity are the exact moments we can change the legacy we are creating. We all leave a legacy and we believe that we can reclaim what is broken and gift future generations a legacy we are proud to hand down.
(469) 747-1596 View (469) 747-1596
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Erin Solomon
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MMFT
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065
I myself have had a community of family, friends, doctors, church members, teachers, and counselors who have made a world of difference in my life.
It is my hope to meet you where you're at in your life journey. Asking for help or wanting to change can be an incredibly powerful step. It is my goal to walk alongside you and provide a safe space for growing and healing. It can be difficult to deal with life transitions at any age or stage.
I myself have had a community of family, friends, doctors, church members, teachers, and counselors who have made a world of difference in my life.
It is my hope to meet you where you're at in your life journey. Asking for help or wanting to change can be an incredibly powerful step. It is my goal to walk alongside you and provide a safe space for growing and healing. It can be difficult to deal with life transitions at any age or stage.
(469) 620-8627 View (469) 620-8627
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Suzanne Skeete Benites
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW-S
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Midlothian, TX 76065
I am trauma-informed, trained in Internal Family Systems, EMDR and IFS informed EMDR.
Are you looking for help with anxiety, social anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, mood swings, vicious inner critic attacks, toxic shame, fawning, codependency, hair triggered fight/flight responses, oversensitivity in stressful situations, dissociation and/or suicidal ideation? These symptoms are often linked with a blueprint developed to survive childhood trauma (physical, sexual, verbal, emotional) and physical or emotional neglect. Is your blueprint that helped you survive childhood now interfering with work, friendships or relationships? There is a way out of your self-perpetuating patterns.
I am trauma-informed, trained in Internal Family Systems, EMDR and IFS informed EMDR.
Are you looking for help with anxiety, social anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, mood swings, vicious inner critic attacks, toxic shame, fawning, codependency, hair triggered fight/flight responses, oversensitivity in stressful situations, dissociation and/or suicidal ideation? These symptoms are often linked with a blueprint developed to survive childhood trauma (physical, sexual, verbal, emotional) and physical or emotional neglect. Is your blueprint that helped you survive childhood now interfering with work, friendships or relationships? There is a way out of your self-perpetuating patterns.
(682) 204-6501 View (682) 204-6501
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Collins Counseling & Consulting
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC-S
Verified Verified
Midlothian, TX 76065
Life is challenging. Are you feeling challenged in your life by stress, money, loss, anxiety, work, expectations from self or others, relationships with friends, family, co-workers, or partners in life – pre, mid, post commitment? Are you experiencing issues with a major event and now face the challenge of coping or transitioning, self-esteem, fear of failure or decisions or moving forward? Whatever the challenge you are facing today, counseling can help you find your path to your authentic self and a life you love and deserve.
Life is challenging. Are you feeling challenged in your life by stress, money, loss, anxiety, work, expectations from self or others, relationships with friends, family, co-workers, or partners in life – pre, mid, post commitment? Are you experiencing issues with a major event and now face the challenge of coping or transitioning, self-esteem, fear of failure or decisions or moving forward? Whatever the challenge you are facing today, counseling can help you find your path to your authentic self and a life you love and deserve.
(682) 615-6751 View (682) 615-6751

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Family Therapy

What do family therapists do?

A family therapist facilitates the process of understanding and improving how a family functions. The therapist will help family members develop empathy for one another. They’ll seek to understand existing patterns, misunderstandings, and conflicts that arise, in order to help the family arrive at a realistic, unified understanding and develop the coping skills they need to build stronger relationships.

How long does therapy for families take to work?

Therapy manifests differently in every family; a common time frame is 12 weekly sessions, but some families may see improvement after just a few weeks. Families should discuss their goals with the therapist at the beginning of the process and periodically revisit those goals to assess their progress together.

How can you encourage a family member to attend family therapy?

You can encourage family members to attend therapy by expressing with both love and concern the challenges you see and explaining how a therapist could help the family navigate those challenges together. An outside perspective can help everyone feel heard, get on the same page, and develop new skills. If family members are still hesitant, it may be helpful to emphasize that family therapy is short-term—it won’t last forever.

Is therapy for families effective?

Family therapy can significantly improve family dynamics and relationships. Research suggests that family therapy can help individuals understand their role in the family, communicate and solve problems together, reduce conflict and draw boundaries when necessary, and develop coping skills for stressors, major life changes, and mental or physical illnesses within the family.