Family
Counseling

Families, and extended families, go through developmental stages just as do their individual members. Examples of these stages are: The birth of the first child and welcoming subsequent children into the family; the need to adjust boundaries as children reach adolescence; launching young adult children and the subsequent empty nest; and perhaps a season of becoming a caretaker for an aging parent. 

Intervening events such as career transitions, illnesses and deaths, and extended family relationship strains are crucial challenges for which couples and families often seek help. As of course are the challenges of navigating divorce, post-divorce cooperative parenting, remarriage, and the blending of families. Each of these transitions and challenges are areas where the help of a counselor can be indispensable.

Although some of this work comes with counseling couples, Dr. Figley generally does not work with the broader family unit when young children are involved. Our licensed counselor, David Reed and our intern, Jason Owenby, are adept at this area of counseling need. Having five and three children of their own respectively, these men have both the personal and the counseling experience to help struggling families formulate and implement a plan: Helping them understand what is happening and providing a steady guiding hand on the process as healthy ways of adapting are learned and practiced.