Family Therapy
Why do I love these people?
Family membership is automatic and cannot be revoked.
Even if we are physically abandoned at birth, the preconscious memory and meaning of that connected experience remain throughout our lives. The degree to which trust, truth, commitment, and intimacy within the family form our early relational experience, shaping how we see ourselves and the world around us. How we experience family life lines our future path with pots of gold and land mines. For better or worse, we are the sum of our family relationships and the connections we have with each other. When family connections are strong, we grow up feeling safe, secure, and significant. We become vulnerable to feeling unloved, shamed, and rejected when links are weak or broken.
As a family member, you become woven into a complex web where the well-being and integrity of the family depend upon the well-being and integrity of each family member. When families stop “working,” the onus is on all family members to work individually and collectively to get it running smoothly again. That a family consists of varying developmental needs, individual wants, distinctive personality traits, and ego-centric perceptions is both a blessing and a curse.
On the one hand, it means each family member contributes a unique set of strengths and competencies to family challenges or crises. On the other hand, it means each family member contributes a fantastic collection of vulnerabilities and bad habits.
Working together, the Relationship Intelligence approach to self + other therapy helps families rediscover their grasp of four building blocks—trust, truth, commitment, and intimacy, in that order—each is uniquely necessary to connect members and strengthen family ties.
Dr. Zierk’s relational theory of therapy and style of intervention works for the following types of family matters:
Parent-child struggles (children + adolescents)
Family-of-origin distress
Multi-generational conflict
Divorce-related family restructuring
Trauma-based challenges + ruptures
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