Our Approach

Family Therapy Clinic staff members share some common assumptions which make the center unique:

• First, we believe human problems are best understood when viewed in their wider social context.
• Second, the staff at the Family Therapy Clinic share a commitment to help resolve problems as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• Third, we believe that therapy can be beneficial for anyone and are respectful of each person’s unique situation.

Strength of Marriage and Family Therapy

The use of multiple theoretical components to create interventions and goals to help individuals, couples and families from a unique perspective that looks collectively at one’s environment and relationships with others.

 MFTs Believe That…

• Family matters
• Families do not have to fit the traditional type
• There are strengths in each family
• Individuals are influenced by their relationships with others
• Relationships can bring the best or the worst out of individuals
• Individuals and families need to be listened to, not judged
• Family conflict is natural but it does not have to impact one’s ability to function
• The family is a system and each family member contributes to the maintenance of a family issue
• Family affairs are better addressed when family members come to therapy together
• Healing is from the roots
• Families can change for the better