Parenting and Family Therapy
Every family is as unique as its individual members, its dyad relationships, and the ways in which the family functions as a team. My Family Counselor provides family therapy services. Our primary focus is to ensure that your family can build on existing strengths and minimize potential barriers to continued physical, spiritual, and emotional growth.
Parenting and Family Therapy
Family relationships are rarely simple, and parenting is no exception. Whether you are navigating co-parenting, blended family dynamics, or the particular challenges that come with raising teenagers or young adults — or supporting a high school or college-aged child through a difficult season — Melanie can help you think through what it means to lead your family with wisdom, patience, and grace.
Melanie’s Experience
As a former K-12 teacher, mother, wife, friend, and one of six daughters with a few years under her belt, Melanie has seen what’s behind the curtain in quite a few families. Sometimes, she has just caught a glimpse and other times she has been invited to enter more fully into the lives of other families.
“With my own family and with others, I have experienced great joy and devastating heartache. I have learned a lot through formal education and even more by walking with God and others.”
Melanie’s Areas of Specialization:
- Custodial concerns during separation or divorce
- Grief, loss, or trauma
- Co-parenting
- Blended family life
- Parenting teens and young adults
- Life as an empty nester
- Overall family wellness
My Family Counselor:
Offering heart-centered, biblical, evidence-based treatment.
Transformation is our privilege and our passion.
Reach out today for a complimentary insight call.
Frequently Asked Questions for Family Therapists:
What is a typical session like?
While there are some things common to most sessions, each therapy session varies.
What you might cover in therapy sessions also varies. For example, your therapist may go through specific exercises with you, or you might have a more general discussion about how you’re feeling. Your councelor may ask you about:
- your current and past relationships
- your childhood and past experiences
- situations or events you find difficult
- how you feel
- how you behave
- what you think about things
- issues that have come up in previous sessions
It’s important to remember that you don’t have to discuss something that you’re not ready to talk about, or do anything you don’t want to do.
What approach do you use for family therapy?
At MFC, we take an integrative approach combining evidence-based methods and theories as well as a biblical perspective as directed.
A family is a complex, deeply connected system and it is important to examine it as a whole system made of diverse individuals (family systems theory.) We also use a prayerful, solutions-focused approach while examining the goals and values of the family unit.
Finally, as a Christian counselor, most (but not all) of my clients want to discuss God’s biblical plan for marriage and the family. This is an area of study that I am passionate about and love to share (with permission) with families.