Struggling with communication breakdowns, recurring conflicts, and lost trust?
Navigating a major life transition, such as divorce, serious medical diagnosis, or trauma, and seeking support to help your family cope, heal, and rebuild together?
Is your child struggling with social isolation, anxiety, academic issues, or navigating their LGBTQ+ identity, and you want to give them the support they need?
Asheville Family Counseling is here to help! We provide a safe space designed to help you heal, reconnect, and develop secure attachments in your most important relationships.
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Our work with families draws primarily from Attachment Theory, Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), and Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS). We focus on building communication, empathy, and collaboration.
We identify the problems that are causing distress in your family and solve them collaboratively and proactively. Our approach is completely non-blaming, non-punitive, non-adversarial, non-exclusionary, and trauma-responsive.
If any of the following describe your family, you’ll likely benefit from family counseling with us.
- We (whether parent/child or siblings) are adults and want to mend a strained relationship.
- We’re (getting) divorced, and need help with co-parenting. We want to help our child(ren) feel supported and loved no matter what.
- Our child seems unreachable and we don’t know how to connect with them anymore.
- Our child struggles with anxiety and is hard to reassure.
- Our child is gay or transgender and we don’t know how to support them.
- We have a serious medical diagnosis in our family.
- We’ve experienced something traumatic.
- We can’t seem to communicate without yelling.
- Things will be good for a while—and then there’s conflict again.
- Our child is having problems in school.
- The trust in our relationship is lost.
- Sibling rivalry is creating constant stress.
Distressing family dynamics can interfere with the functioning of every family member. When family members are in conflict, the tension can impact each family member’s mental and physical health and relationships.
Family counseling helps families collaborate to address problems. The course of treatment is often brief and seeks to address the communication styles of the family as well as individual issues that may be interfering with feeling connected within the family.
Family problems don’t have to be severe to warrant therapy. Families can expect to learn to understand one another better, communicate more effectively, work proactively to understand each other’s concerns and and meet each other’s needs, and experience more joy, harmony, and connection.
We may see the family as a group or with just one or two family members at a time. Some problems within the family can be addressed by working solely with the parents. Family counseling can be done with children old enough for talk therapy (generally starting around 12 years old) all the way up to adult children and their parents. Our primary modality when working with families with young children is Theraplay and Sand Tray Therapy.
What are the Benefits of Family Counseling?
- Better understanding of healthy boundaries and family patterns and dynamics
- Enhanced compassionate communication
- Improved creative problem solving
- Deeper empathy
- Reduced conflict and better anger management
- Increased love, joy, and connection
A further note about our practice: We take responsibility for learning about current systems of oppression and how they do harm. We take accountability for our missteps and micro-aggressions. We consistently work to create an environment that is welcoming and affirming of people from different races/ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, class strata, abilities, and religious/spiritual orientations. We have taken special training and received supervision around these identities/systems and have the ability to consult with someone around identities we don’t personally hold.
All of our clients are seen, heard, and valued for exactly who they are.
We encourage you to schedule a free, 15-minute call to see how working with us may help you and your family. Please call or text (828) 761-3149.