Family Counseling And Therapy Services

Family Counseling and Therapy

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If you are considering making an appointment for your family, please contact Dr. Wilson today.
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NOTE: Please review AMI's fees for service by clicking here. Therapy can be scheduled every week or every other week, depending on the circumstances of the particular client.

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Why do families seek a family therapist and enter family counseling and therapy? Modern families face pressures and stresses that families living even fifty years ago could not imagine. Unless a modern family is able to communicate authentically and work together to support and compassionately contain each other, these tremendous stresses can cause a serious breakdown in the family's integrity and structure.

The most common reasons families come into relationship counseling are: divorce, separation, custody issues, the adoption of a child, re-marriage, the addition of step-children, death of a parent or child, physical sickness of a parent or child, the mental illness of a parent or child, substance abuse by a parent or child, the sexual or physical abuse of a child, and any combination of the above.

Dr. Parker Wilson has been a family therapist for many years. Dr. Wilson conducts family counseling and therapy by using the most effective methodologies and techniques available in modern clinical psychology. Because of his training, experience, and expertise in relationship counseling and as a family therapist, Dr. Wilson enjoys a clinical effectiveness rating of over 80% when conducting family counseling and therapy.

To fix a problem one must first know what the problem is, and the family dynamic is no exception to this rule. A family must be willing to take an honest and objective look at itself, from the inside out. Doing this requires the ability to see thoughts and emotions without being caught up in or identified with them. In short, as a fundamental component of therapy, mindfulness is needed. To assist in the cultivation of mindfulness, Dr. Wilson gives all members of the family age appropriate mindfulness techniques to practice outside of the family therapy sessions.

Family counseling and therapy is a complex process but one that many families find necessary in the modern age. Like individuals, family systems have problems, difficulties, and challenges. Like any relationship counseling process, the first task of family counseling and therapy is to identify the roles that members play. Who is the leader, the tone-setter, the peace-maker, the negotiator, the scape-goat, and/or the bully? To what extent did each person in the family choose the role that they play, and why? Moreover, how do all of these roles influence the ways in which family members communicate and what they choose to communicate about?

And now to the larger question: how do these roles and communication styles influence and/or create the problems that the family system is experiencing? Even when people love each other deeply, they often create distance and difficulty. families often keep secrets, and harbor jealousies and resentments. The foundation of all secrets, jealousies, and resentments is simply fear. Solid relationship counseling makes this evident to everyone involved. When each member of the family begins to understand the negative dynamics that have caused so much pain and misunderstanding, they become naturally motivated to work with and transform their fear. Eventually, each family member can become aware enough to make a choice. A choice to courageously communicate with more authenticity, patience, love, and compassion.

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To schedule a consultation with family therapist Dr. Parker Wilson, a provider of relationship counseling in Denver, please click here.

If this material has been stimulating, please consider purchasing Dr. Wilson's latest online mindfulness seminar.