Family Therapy

Family therapy can include adult siblings with their parents or teenagers with their parents or adult siblings alone. Through structure-guided conversation, whatever issues have created difficulties in the family, they can begin to heal.

Family therapy is an integral part of treatment with adolescents and teens. I help families understand that they function as a system, and support each person in understanding their role that contributes to the family dynamic. Family therapy helps encourage effective communication between family members.

I provide shorter-term family therapy (up to 12 sessions over 3-6 months) using Ross Greene's Collaborative and Proactive Solutions model. You may be a good fit for this if your child is struggling with behavioral challenges and you want to figure out how to address the issues without being in therapy for years.

We provide therapy services to children, adolescents, and families . We also work with parents in supporting their children.

I have 2 years post masters training in family therapy. I am an approved supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy ( AAMFT). I have been a practicing family therapist for over 30 years. Besides therapy, I have provided supervision, consultation, and training in working with families in various settings both here and abroad

Develop empathic understanding of all family members perspectives

I believe that the space between people is the most powerful place to create change. We are all embedded in relationships and come from families, no matter our current situations, and even individuals carry with us a history of those relationships. A family systems orientation lets me take into account far more than just what's in any one person's "head" when it comes to getting unstuck. I am a Clinical Fellow of AAMFT and have held leadership positions in many family therapy organizations.

We provide family therapy specializing in blended families and foster families. We believe that it is often true that our environment and those we are around have an impact on our wellbeing and how we learn to interact. Family involvement can be critical to treatment of children, teens, and adults struggling within interpersonal relationships of those in the home.

As a licensed marriage and family therapist I am comprehensively trained in family therapy and systems theory. I have worked successfully and consistently with families for the last ten years.

Family therapy is an integral part of treatment with adolescents and teens. Family therapy helps encourage effective communication between family members. I have utilized family therapy as the cornerstone of my work with adolescents and teens and even young adults over the past 20 years. "You don't live in a bubble. What you do and say affect others. Let's figure out how best to communicate." - Lara Murphy, LMFT

I have been working with couples and families for my entire career. I have developed an effective approach to help families ands couples stop blaming and to develop a solutions-focus. We can work on effective conflict resolution so that partners and families are able to reconnect as partners/groups.

Integrating family into the work with children and adolescents is key and family therapy is a big part of the work I do. For young people struggling with disordered eating, I am also trained in Family Based Therapy specifically for supporting families in feeding their child.

My focus and track in graduate school was couples and families and I have continued my work since constantly obtaining new education and reading about techniques.

I truly enjoy working with adult family members to come together to change and heal. Families tell me that my humor, strengths-based nature, and ability to be on everyone’s team at the same time are qualities that help them take courageous risks in therapy. I help family members connect with one another emotionally, to help them understand the dynamics that keep them in unhelpful interaction patterns, and identify the intergenerational ways they have built their family story.

Can I keep my individuality, yet contribute the the family and relationships?

Integrating family into the work with children and adolescents is key and family therapy is a big part of the work I do. For young people struggling with disordered eating, I am also trained in Family Based Therapy specifically for supporting families in feeding their child.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I have 26 years of experience specializing in couple, family and adolescent therapy. My belief is that we best heal WITH each other, working through conflict towards a more connected life.

I work with the entire family to improve communication, increase connection and restore harmony.