Couple and Family Mediation
Couples and families often need help increasing their ability to recognize their strengths, understand the roots and nature of their difficulties, and work together to troubleshoot and transform their problems. I have many years of experience helping families with very diverse dynamics to develop the understanding, respect and communication skills required to minimize conflict and improve their relationships with one another.
Depending on the situation, this process may involve a couple, parents and their children, or all these plus extended family members and includes focus on:
-acknowledgement of the strengths that already exist in relationships between and among family members;
-education about the dynamics of connection and conflict in couples and families;
-opportunities for family members to talk together and actively observe the process when it works well and when it does not;
-coaching in communication skills that support each person so that everyone is able to communicate concerns and be heard by everyone else;
-development of problem-solving skills that enable couples and families to diagnose, address, and resolve problems to the satisfaction of all.