Struggling with family conflicts? Learn practical communication strategies from a family therapist to navigate disagreements with empathy and clarity. Discover tips for emotional regulation, active listening, and conflict resolution to foster healthier relationships.

Holiday gratitude, acceptance, reflection, and mindfulness in therapy in Florida can help you shift your mindset into one that offers you strength this holiday season.

Coping with holiday anxiety can be tough when you have to manage a narcissistic family member. Haven Family Therapy offers therapy for toxic family in Florida structured to help you break free from toxic family holiday patterns, so your holiday season can look happy, healthy, and peaceful.

Your parents may be used to being involved in every aspect of your life. When you move out, they may try to have extensive oversight over your choices. Your parents may scrutinize your spending, or they may have an involvement in your life goals that goes beyond interest and into attempts to control. You may find that you all disagree more and more on where, and how, you live.

Therapists can go a long way toward breaking down myths around therapy, mental health, and family dynamics, but you can be the one to start that process for your family. You can talk with your family about the benefits of therapy, both generally and in the context of how you think therapy can help your own family.

In the tempestuous sea of divorce, our hearts are cast adrift, battered by emotions we never thought we'd feel. Yet, amid the wreckage, we can find support in family therapy, guiding you through the tumultuous waters of co-parenting.

As a co-parenting therapist who specializes in delivering family counseling to families of all shapes, I’ve put together some of the tips I use most in session.

All too often, especially with teenagers in the house, you may find that family conversations turn into conflict. Sometimes the same kind of conflict, over and over, in fact. This can easily lead to post-argument anxiety, where you find yourself on edge, dreading an argument that will end up in an emotional attack of some sort.

What would change for you if every member of your family had the skills they needed to feel comfortable navigating celebrations and conflict with the same confidence? Does this sound like the future you’re hoping for in your home? An experienced family therapist can help you create it in family therapy sessions.

November is National Adoption Month! We’re exploring the complexity of adoption stories, family, and the healing power of EMDR for adoptees along with other therapy tools today.

As a family therapist, I visit with families at many moments in their lives, whether just wanting communication skills or working to repair years of damage. Family therapy can also help when you don’t know what to do when a family member struggles with substance use or how to overcome shared family trauma.

Today’s blog gets into it!

In this blog, we will get familiar with how the pain of divorce, child loss, adoption, and infertility can damage the stitching on the family quilt and how families can seam it back together.

Even when we’re full-grown adults, we can’t seem to escape the effects of our childhood that bring us back to the moment we were 15, small, indignant, and still not feeling heard by the primary decision-makers in our lives. Whether it’s that, or an age-old feud with our siblings, even now, we may notice those same patterns surfacing in the day-to-day interactions with our own children.

Find the link for this blog written by Therapist Alexa von Oertzen here!