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None of us exists as individuals
alone in the world. We learn
to relate to others through
our family experience and
move through a series of relationships
from early childhood friendships
to dating relationships and
on to marriage and domestic
partnerships and may raise
children of our own. We move
from dating and marriage or
partnering through child rearing
and "empty nests."
Life leads us through careers
to retirement and the challenges
of later years of health issues,
loss and grief. All of this
is in the context of our relationships
with others.
At times, our best efforts
are not enough to keep us
moving forward in positive,
productive relationships with
our spouses or partners, our
children or our extended families.
Some distress signals to
look for are:
- Marital, relationship
or family dissatisfaction
or discord.
- Sexual problems or concerns.
- Emotional distress when
dealing with one's fiancé,
spouse, partner, children,
parents or other family
members.
- Frequent difficulties
with a child's or adolescent's
behaviors, school adjustment,
peer relationships, or academic
achievement.
- Feelings of loneliness,
isolation, moodiness, depression,
jealousy, possessiveness
or anger in yourself, spouse,
partner or children.
- Abuse of substances such
as alcohol and/or drugs.
- Repeated financial difficulties.
- Frequent and/or intense
conflict.
- Verbal, physical or emotionally
abusive behaviors.
Therapy can be an opportunity
to understand and make positive
changes in problematic relationship
patterns to give couples and
families new hope for a better
life and greater satisfaction
in their relationships with
spouses, partners, children
and extended family members.
The Evelyn Frye Center offers
counseling and therapy provided
by trained, senior clinicians
with experience in relationship
and family dynamics and treatment.
Our staff can assist you and
your loved ones to:
- Learn new problem-solving
and communication skills.
- Improve your personal
and professional relationships.
- Reduce family and relationship
conflict.
- Meet life transitions
and crises more effectively.
- Improve parenting skills.
- Improve relationship skills.
- Increase levels of intimacy
and connection in relationships.
- Change destructive, self-defeating
and dysfunctional behavior
patterns.
- Enhance and improve relationship
interaction.
- Help you define and meet
relationship and family
goals.
- Manage parent-child or
parent-teen relationships
more effectively.
Marriage, relationship and
family therapy includes:
- Premarital counseling
- Relationship enhancement
and improvement
- Communication and problem
solving issues
- Parent-child and parent-teen
problems
- Parenting skills
- Relationships, families
affected by alcohol and
drug problems
- Dysfunctional conflict
patterns
- Domestic violence
- Divorce adjustment for
adults, teens and children
- Sexual problems
- Family abuse issues
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