Family Therapy

Family shapes who we are—for better and worse—quietly teaching us our language, our rhythms, and the lens through which we come to see the world.

Stressful events and life transitions can affect and strain family relationships. Family therapy brings parents, siblings, caregivers, and extended family members into the treatment process. During family therapy, you and your family can explore family roles and patterns of behavior in order to gain a deeper understanding of how to create the change you seek and to teach skills to deepen and/or repair family connections. You can also learn skills to improve family communication and express difficult emotions respectfully.

As a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, we will access your family strengths in order to assist you in identifying solutions to family problems or difficult dynamics. It can be helpful to hold each family member accountable for creating change toward the family goals. We only have control over our own responses to others, and therefore, when one or more individuals change their own reactions and behaviors, the family dynamic must respond in a new way.

Tango & Co. Therapy has extensive experience in working with youth and their families dealing with a variety of issues. One of my strengths is connecting with your teen/young Adult to gain their trust so I can be a bridge that leads to a happier relationship for all. 

 Family therapy sessions can be helpful to address:

• Discipline issues and differences in parenting styles between parents/caregivers
• Conflicts between siblings and/or parents and extended family members
• Communication struggles
• Adoption and family identity issues
• School difficulties
• Multigenerational family patterns
• Teen and young adult transitions
• Severed relationships with adult children
• Drug and alcohol use
• Suicide and Trauma survivors 
• Grief due to loss, separation and/or divorce

Successful outcomes for you and your family often occurs in just a few sessions. For other more complex family issues it may take longer. But, if you want to learn and model healthier and happier was of interrelating-family therapy is the answer. 

Some positive family therapy outcomes:

• Strategies to develop and maintain boundaries
• A fostered sense of cohesion and communication among family members
• Promotes problem-solving through an understanding of family patterns and dynamics
• Builds empathy, understanding, and healing.
• Break and end toxic cycles/traits
• Reduces family conflict