COUPLES & FAMILY COUNSELING

Relationships are an important part of our lives, but sometimes we struggle to maintain healthy relationships as our lives change.  Having a child diagnosed with ADHD or displaying ADHD symptoms can be confusing, frustrating and can create stress in a couple’s relationship and in a family’s dynamic.

Understanding ADHD and how it affects your child and learning ways to support them can improve many aspects of family life. There are various strategies that can help parents be better able to respond rather than react to their child’s behaviors, to set expectations and to help their child develop responsibility, emotional intelligence and regulation.

Transition Counseling in Separation and Divorce

The experience of parents separating is confusing for children and teens as well as for parents who might not know the healthiest way to support their children during this stressful, transitional period. 

Typically, many of the transitional issues that pertain to the children and teens can be best handled in a setting in which the children remain the focus and their well-being remains the priority.  This is difficult to do because this is an enormously emotional time and those emotions can get in the way of thinking clearly on behalf of the children.  In addition, this is uncharted territory for many parents who are struggling with separation or divorce, and they honestly don’t know what is best.

I support the parents in identifying ways of maintaining a sense of safety and security for their children during a time of enormous change.  I help them determine the healthiest approach to sharing necessary information along the way and how to set boundaries to protect them from adult the aspects of separation that their children might not be able to emotionally handle.  Many of the challenges arise from the logistics of being in two homes and scheduling school, activities and visits.  We can work together to find the best solutions to try to meet everyone’s needs.  At the same time, I work with the children to help them identify and process their feelings about this transition and work with them to maintain healthy relationships with each parent.